Recent report from Newsarama about the new GOTHAM TV series seems to hint to some interesting plot developments and possibly inclusion of The Joker in the roster of criminals making their appearance on the show…. Here is an excerpt of the report:
GOTHAM Showrunner Spills on the JOKER, Says Show Will Surpass the BATMAN Movies
Bruno Heller, the showrunner for next season’s highly anticipated Gotham series from Fox, has confirmed that he intends to features a slew of Batman villains in the television show — including The Joker — and believes his show will “surpass the [Christopher Nolan] Batman movies.”
“In terms of what [director and executive producer Danny Cannon and director of photography David Stockton] are doing — visually — Gotham will surpass the Batman movies,” he said. “The movies are a very rigorous, kind of Germanic take on that world. They’re visually stunning, but not particularly visually pleasurable. I would say this is much more on the street level of Gotham. There’s more people, it’s a more colorful place, it’s a more vivid place, it’s more crowded. The inspiration for me and Danny was New York in the ’70s, because we both remember that as a seminal moment, coming to the city for the first time. This is very much that kind of Gotham — intensely visual and three-dimensional and layered and gritty and dirty and sexy and dangerous.”
Gotham takes place when Bruce Wayne is a boy whose parents have just been murdered, and Heller called young actor David Mazouz “without a doubt, the best actor to ever play the part of Bruce Wayne.”…
…Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Heller said all of the first season is already mapped out, and the series will feature not only young Bruce Wayne and rookie cop Jim Gordon, but also Harvey Bullock, the Penguin, Riddler, young Catwoman, Poison Ivy, former “tough marine” Alfred Pennyworth, and others — and “possibly Harvey Dent.” The series will show what “inspired” the villains to eventually become their older selves….
(You can read the whole article HERE. Original article by Vaneta Rogers for NEWSARAMA)
