Matt Reeves confirms whether or not or not Batman (or Bruce Wayne) will appear in the upcoming Penguin collection on HBO.

We will quickly be thrust again into the Gotham City underworld with The Penguin, the upcoming HBO collection starring Colin Farrell because the titular mobster. However, the massive query has been will Batman make an look in the collection? According to Matt Reeves, who govt produces the collection, neither Batman nor Bruce Wayne will appear in The Penguin, however they did think about it.

“I’m a point-of-view filmmaker,” Reeves instructed Total Film. “When I’m doing a Batman story, Batman and Bruce goes to be the principle perspective. To discover the rogues gallery, they might by no means get the true property we are able to do in a collection. So Batman is in this [show] solely as a way that he’s a presence. You’re conscious that every one of those occasions started due to the Riddler, however the Riddler doesn’t appear and Batman doesn’t appear.“

Just in case anybody was nonetheless in doubt, Reeves doubled down. “Rob [Pattinson] is not going to be in the show,” Reeves stated. “I’d reasonably take the Band-Aid off now. We did discuss all that however we felt one of the best ways to do that was to go on a grand exploration of a man grabbing for energy in this second.“

Taking place after the occasions of The Batman, The Penguin will discover Oswald Cobblepot benefiting from the facility vacuum created by the dying of Carmine Falcone. In addition to Farrell, the collection stars Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone, daughter of the late Carmine, Rhenzy Feliz as Victor Aguilar, Oswald’s driver, Michael Kelly as Johnny Vity, Falcone household underboss, and Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni, a rival gangster. Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, James Madio, Scott Cohen, Michael Zegen, Carmen Ejogo, and Theo Rossi additionally star in the collection.

The Penguin was initially developed by Max, but it surely has since moved to HBO alongside a number of different exhibits that had been initially introduced for Max. The collection will debut on HBO on September nineteenth. As for The Batman Part II, we’ve bought fairly a wait in retailer because the movie has been delayed by a complete 12 months and can now hit theaters on October 2, 2026.