The Penguin is coming to HBO Max and the streaming service’s head of originals, Sarah Aubrey, has talked about the upcoming Batman spin-off series. The Penguin will act as a bridge between two Batman movies. The series will pick up from the events at the end of the first film, released earlier this year, and lead into the second.

Colin Farrell will reprise his role as the villainous Oswald Cobblepot from the films and will also executive produce the series. Lauren LeFranc was hired as the showrunner when the project was being developed last year. The Batman producers Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark will also executive produce, along with Craig Zobel, who is expected to direct the first two episodes.  The limited series is expected to run between six and eight hours.

Aubrey said the following about the upcoming HBO Max series, per Variety:

“’Penguin’ will sit immediately after the end of The Batman and temporally before the events of the second movie. The show will come out in between the two movies. Now beyond that, it’s fun for the audience to know that it will be a bridge between the two, but the actual release date, I’m not at liberty to say.

The goal of this is to show what Oz’s life is like and that’s very much in the streets of Gotham, trying to get up and over as only the Penguin can. As a hustler and a strategist with his own ambitions. It is a great example of having the time over eight episodes to tell a longer-arc character story with a lot of delicious twists and turns and new characters. It’s very much going to be about Gotham at that street level, because he’s not flying around like Batman does. We are all embracing that as a very specific experience for audiences to have.”

A premiere date and additional details for The Penguin will be announced at a later time.

What do you think? Are you planning to check out The Penguin on HBO Max?