Before Matt Reeves' highly-anticipated The Batman hits theaters, potential fans should know what makes thePenguin tick.
Whether it’s Bruce Wayne’s tragic origins, his first year as a neophyte crimefighter, or even his second donning the cape and cowl, organized crime almost always dominated Gotham City during Batman’s early days. Matt Reeves’ The Batman sports an impressive ensemble cast – and Colin Farrell’s unrecognizable transformation into Oswald Cobblepot/the Penguin is an important representation of this “Earth-2” story.
That’s why when it was revealed that director/writer Matt Reeves cast Colin Farrell as Cobblepot, many fans expected him to make the Penguin work by going the opposite direction of the comics, appearance-wise. A handsome, slick, but no less villainously cunning take on the Penguin sounds pretty good on paper. But once the first teaser for The Batman premiered at DC FanDome 2020, many fans didn’t even realize that Farrell was in the trailer opposite Robert Pattinson’s ambitious Caped Crusader.
In a metaphorical sense, it’s almost fitting how he came and went, and came back again into the comics “bigger” and “badder,” as overcompensation is Cobblepot’s greatest weakness. His overt “Napoleon complex” often proves to be his downfall, where he’s even mocked by Batman’s extended Bat-Family members for fading pathetically into obscurity during writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Dan Mora’s recent run on Detective Comics.
After that, the next high-billing, live-action iteration of the Penguin will be by Farrell in The Batman. Just by the trailers alone, there aren’t enough praises in the world for the crew’s costume and makeup department. As it turns out, it is possible to put together a theatrical Penguin that’s both realistic and a clear rendition of the comic book version’s aesthetic.
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