A New “The Penguin” Teaser Reveals Gotham’s Mean Streets

In a moody new teaser for HBO Max’s The Penguin, we’re taken back to the gritty, grimy streets of Gotham as envisioned by Matt Reeves in his excellent 2022 film The Batman, which introduced Robert Pattinson as the new Caped Crusader and which included a standout performance from Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot, the rotund gangster better known as the Penguin.

The teaser makes it clear that The Penguin exists in a dark, crime-infested Gotham caught in a dangerous moment. Batman and his ally in the Gotham Police Department, Jim Gordon (Jeffrey Wright), had spent the better part of The Batman trying to catch the Riddler (Paul Dano), while Gotham’s powerful underworld was run by Carmine Falcone (John Turturro). When the Riddler took out Falcone, he left a power vacuum at the top of Gotham’s criminal pecking order that the Penguin was all too eager and capable to fill. The Penguin will follow his attempt to swim to the top of the criminal food chain.

Things won’t be easy, however, for Oswald as he tries to control a shadowy world of gangsters, especially Carmine Falcone’s daughter, Sofia (Cristin Milioti), freshly freed from Arkham Asylum and not one to so easily hand over power. Gotham’s mean streets are unforgiving, even for someone as cunning and power-hungry as Oswald Cobblepot. 

Joining Farrell and Milioti are Clancy Brown as Salvatore Maroni, Shohreh Aghdashloo as Nadia Maroni, Carmen Ejogo as Eve Karlo, and Michael Kelly as Johnny Vitti. 

Check out the teaser here:

Whoever runs the streets, runs Gotham.

The new HBO Original Limited Series #ThePenguin premieres September 19 at 9pm ET on Max, and then Sundays at 9pm ET starting September 29. pic.twitter.com/lYTNG7keIi

— The Penguin (@TheBatman) September 2, 2024

The Penguin arrives on HBO Max on Friday, September 20, and then Mondays starting on September 30.

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Featured image: Colin Farrell is Oswald Cobblepot in “The Penguin.” Photo courtesy of Max.