Colin Farrell has "heard" The Penguin will feature in 'The Batman 2'.
The 48-year-old actor played Oz Cobb and his villainous alter ego in 2022's 'The Batman' and reprised the role for an HBO spin-off series, but while he's expected to return for director Matt Reeves' upcoming sequel - which stars Robert Pattinson in the title role - he admitted he hasn't yet seen a script, though he's looking forward to seeing what the filmmaker has in mind.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s 'The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunningham', he said: “I have no idea what the second film is gonna be. I heard Penguin features in it. I haven’t read it.
“It’d be interesting to see where we pick up from. There’s been so much pipe laid. It’d be interesting to see where it goes from here, you know? But he would be quite different.”
Director Matt confirmed in September he is still planning to make 'The Batman' a trilogy.
He told Collider: "Yes, that is still the plan. I mean, it’s sticking very closely to the path we envisioned."
And he admitted 'The Penguin' TV series would help progress the character in the films.
He said: "When we came up with the idea to do ‘The Penguin’, that was something where I had always intended to continue Penguin’s story, and wanted to tell this story of his beginning of rise to power.
"Because we know that he’s introduced in ‘The Batman’ as a kind of mid-level, sort of overlooked, mocked figure, who’s not yet in anyone’s eyes the kingpin we come to know him as in the lore.
"And so, that was deliberate because I wanted— whereas it wasn’t Batman’s origin story, I wanted the origin stories of these other characters, of the Rogues Gallery and that story was originally going to be the entrée into the next movie.
"It's still the same kind of trajectory of story, but the entry point for where Oz is is now that he’s further along as we enter that story than he would have been if we had started that story in the movie instead of by doing a series."
