DC Television Pennyworth - Batman Prequel gets series order at Epix

[Ozbridge]

Oh I don't mind that you find it useless, everything we love will be hated by someone somewhere. But I was talking about SHH front page; it is my go-to place to read MCU news and rumors (which I don't find in Variety or THR), but I don't mind seeing headlines about Witchers series or GOT prequel, etc. There used to be news (and rumors) only, but suddenly about a week or two ago there were a string of Daredevil episode recaps, then now this thinkpiece about Pennyworth. If it's one off or so then it's fine, but I don't wish to browse through articles like "Top 10 superheros of all time" before I reach a news headline. I understand maybe SHH wants to increase subscribers/ readers so of course I'm not quite complaining about it, I just wonder whether "opinion" articles (recap and thinkpieces, etc.) will be a majority of SHH news page in the future. I don't know where to bring it up so I just ask into the void in this thread.

Edit: And... there’s just the new Titans recap.

Edit 2: So I just found that actually SHH hired Brian Bell (who writes recaps) and Taylor Salan (who writes “opinion” pieces in the beginning of October). But before that there was only news.

Edit 3: I just looked through their LinkedIn, both seem to be the type of full-time online “content” creators.

Well I hope that there won’t be a third writer writing another type of irrelevant articles.

 

[TheVileOne]

They've had some opinion pieces and reviews for a while, varying degrees.

 

[Ozbridge]

Hmm I guess I only really noticed it after those Daredevil recap articles. I thought SHH only had expository news stories before that, not persuasive op-eds.

 

[Ozbridge]

I’ll probably see this for the aesthetics alone.

 

[Pennywise]

Exclusive: Batman Prequel "PENNYWORTH" Story Details Are Here!! - Splash Report

 

[I Am The Knight]

Oh, I didn't know this was a 10 part contained miniseries. That makes sense.

That review read like a marketing blurb ("Alfred carries a lot of baggage from his time in the war, but he doesn’t let it get in the way of his life. He’s a young lad with a future ahead of him." ) but I'm curious about how awful it's going to be so I will probably watch.

 

[Lencho01]

‘Gotham’ EP Danny Cannon Teases Batman Prequel Series ‘Pennyworth’ – TCA

 

[LightDaggers]

How is this the first time I'm seeing anything about this?

I'm not a fan of Gotham, so I can't say I'm excited. But the plot sounds kinda good.

 

[Kaleb]

 

[antsman41]

Hmm, this weirdly has that vibe I wish we could get for a straight time appropriate adaption of Fleming’s Bond novels done as a tv series.

 

[Boom]

He looks like Mark Ellis and I can't unseen it.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Well, they got the hair right.

 

[Lencho01]

New Knightfall Star Mark Hamill Addresses the Jedi–Knights Templar Connection and More TV News

Pennyworth Creators Explain Why Batman’s Butler Needs an Origin Series

(Photo by Epix)

Fox’s Batman prequel series, Gotham, is coming to an end this year. But more pre-Batman stories will continue to be told on television in Epix’s Pennyworth, an origin story about the early life of Batman’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth (played by Jack Bannon).


“It’s really the chance to make him the center of a story and explain that journey: How did he get from being a young SAS soldier to being a butler in America? And it also gives us a chance to create a real world around him, a world in England that fits the whole DC universe,” executive producer Bruno Heller said. “It’s surprising to all of us the depth and range that you can go to with this character.”


While the character’s creator, Bob Kane, set the 1930s as Alfred’s origin, but the Epix series is set in the 1960s. Executive producer Danny Cannon said that as someone from London, that seemed like the most dynamic time period to set a show.


“It’s after the war, before things change for good. You could see the change in the air. Things were happening, culturally, artistically, that — it was an inspiring time, I think, that English people always revisit,” Cannon said. “So, to say that that was the foundations of which we were starting with and then making it 13 degrees more DC, 13 degrees darker [is when the series] really came alive for us.”

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

No one asked for this. No one...

 

[Ozbridge]

Looking forward to this.

 

[Lencho01]

‘Pennyworth’: Emma Paetz & Jessica Ellerby Cast In Epix’s Batman Prequel Series

 

[NotNickFury]

Teaser trailer:

 

[Crosswind Ghost]

“You were meant for something great, Alfred....

To Buttle...”

 

[Guts]

I feel like this belongs in the Gotham section. I don't know if it was confirmed if this takes place in the same universe as Gotham, but it definitely has the same look as the show. Right down to the stylized cgi sky.

 

[NotNickFury]

Well, Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon are involved. Perhaps some of the same stylistic choices were brought along, but I think Heller already confirmed that this isn't connected to Gotham. Nor does it have to be. It can tell its own story.

 

[Inhuman117]

i hope this will drop on Hulu too

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

Teaser trailer:

This looks better than I thought. We'll see.

 

[Aximili86]

I'm so in, this seems goddamn awesome.

 

[Manasrepublic]

The period design and production details look incredible!!

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

The period design and production details look incredible!!

Yeah, it reminds me of The Man in the High Castle.