The Penguin: Colin Farrell’s HBO Max spin-off of The Batman has had its time frame revealed

One of the most unlikely impressive performances of the year belongs to a member of Batman’s rogue gallery. Usually, the instinct is to think this refers to the Joker; however, 2022’s The Batman showcased a newer take on the Penguin character, referred to only as “Oz” in the film. The amazing part is that audiences either found out or constantly questioned that it was none other than Colin Farrell in an unbelievably unrecognizable performance.

Farrell, while promoting The Banshees of Inisherin, spoke about how he was selfish to want to keep playing the character, and the actor has finally got his wish granted with the upcoming Penguin spin-off series set to appear on HBO Max. It was previously thought that the spin-off was to be a prequel outlining how the villain became a lackey for the bigger mob boss of Gotham City, Carmine Falcone. However, ComingSoon has the report of the recently revealed timeline for The Penguin.

HBO Max’s Sarah Aubrey has commented,

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.”

Aubrey continues, “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.”

The Penguin is set to release in 2024.