“The Batman” writer-director Matt Reeves revealed Monday during the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that the HBO Max spin-off series, tentatively titled “Gotham City P.D.,” is now paused indefinitely.
“One thing that we’re not doing that I was gonna do…So, there’s the Gotham police show, which, that one actually is put on hold. We’re not really doing that,” Reeves added.
The project was first announced during DC Fandome in July 2020, setting the series as a prequel to the events of “The Batman”, which featured Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne in his second year as the superhero.
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He continued: “The series was going to be kind of like ‘Prince of the City,’ where it was going to be year one because the movie is year two, and I wanted it to be the first appearance, but it wasn’t going to be a Batman story,"
"It was going about this corrupt cop, and it was going to be about how the worst gang in Gotham were the G.C.P.D. And [Bruce] would have touched paths with Gordon [Jeffrey Wright]. It would have been someone to measure him against, but it would be a battle for his soul,” Reeves added.
“Gotham City P.D.” marked Reeves’ first television series under his overall deal with the Warner Bros. Television Group. Reeves’ 6th & Idaho production company would have produced the series, which was going to be executive produced by Daniel Pipski and Adam Kassan. Rafi Crohn served as co-executive producer.
Originally “Boardwalk Empire” creator Terence Winter was slated as showrunner but was later replaced by Joe Barton.
The series is now being retooled as an epic about Arkham Asylum, wherein the movie both the Riddler (Paul Dano) and the Joker (Barry Keoughan) end up as cellmates at the end of “The Batman.”
Moreover, the “‘Scarface’-like” Penguin spinoff series starring Colin Farrell is in early development at HBO.
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