Matt Reeves’ Max series “The Penguin”, the spinoff series of the 2022 blockbuster movie “The Batman”, has become the latest high-profile TV production to be disrupted by the WGA strike.
The Batman spinoff series was set to film Tuesday in Westchester, NY, but WGA East picketers got there early and Teamsters and local guilds refused to cross the picket line. As a result, filming was shut down for the day.
Writers took to Twitter to mark the occasion.
The spinoff series will run for eight episodes and focus on Colin Farrell’s titular Gotham City gangster from the 2022 blockbuster movie.
In the movie, Paul Dano’s The Riddler kills Carmine Falcone, one of Gotham City’s top mob bosses, he floods the major downtown area in a coordinated terrorist attack — leaving Farrell’s Cobblepot with a city in chaos and a power vacuum within Gotham’s underworld.
The series also features Cristin Milioti as Carmine’s daughter Sofia Falcone, Michael Zegen as Carmine’s son Alberto Falcone, and Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni, who used to be the top gangster in Gotham.
It also stars Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Carmen Ejogo, François Chau, and David H. Holmes.
Lauren LeFranc is the executive producer and showrunner of the series, with “The Batman” writer-director Matt Reeves executive producing through his production company 6th & Idaho.
Executive producer Craig Zobel is directing the first three episodes; other exec producers include Farrell, Dylan Clark, Daniel Pipski, and Bill Carraro. Ravi Crohn is co-executive producing, The series comes from Warner Bros Television and DC Studios.
“The Penguin” will debut on Max sometime later in 2024.
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