This.
This is one of those moments
you got to ask yourself,
what kind of life do I want
the world and build for guys like us?
That's why we got to take whatever we decide
is on us.
My phone calls,
right hand, try to push me out.
What are your seeing?
What I can do
if you step out of line?
You know, once I guy you, like a fish.
You imagine
the people saying my name on the streets after you're gone
and it means something.
The new kingpin of Gotham.
Welcome back everyone, it's Charlie.
This will be my new Batman Penguin trailer they just dropped.
The series is coming in 2024 next year, so I'll explain what's going on.
How this connects with the Batman movie franchise.
Like the Batman 2 that they're filming right now
in James Gunn's big reboot of the DC movies.
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I will do episode videos for the series just like I did for the Peacemaker Series
is sort of like the next in the long line of DC doing their big budget.
HBO series, kind of like Marvel is doing the Disney Plus series.
The only difference with this,
as you probably guessed from James Gunn's explanation earlier this year
when he announced his big reboot projects and what the timeline is going to be
is that the Batman franchise with Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson will be set
in a completely different universe.
They'll consider it
official Elseworlds like there are a couple elseworlds projects.
This is one of them.
It's one of, you know, our jobs mine and Peter's is to come in
and make sure the DCU is connected in film
television, gaming and animation, that the characters are consistent,
played by the same actors, and it works within one story.
And if something is outside of that, like Matt Reeves, Batman
or Todd Phillips, Joker or Teen Titans go that it is clearly labeled
as DC Elseworlds outside of the mainstream DCU continuity.
So James Gunn is just letting Matt Reeves do
whatever he wants in his own different universe.
So all these characters aren't meant to be connected
to what's happening with the new Batman Brave in the Bold movie,
which would be a much older version of the character with Damian Wayne.
It connected to all those other movies and series that he's
considering his gods and monsters like DC Phase one, DC Chapter one.
They're calling it
the way they describe the series, though it's sort of like Colin Farrell
doing his version of Scarface, but with the Penguin character,
I came to Penguin and the idea of Batman when Burgess
Meredith played Penguin and Adam West played Batman.
Me his character is kind of like Scarface.
He's totally underestimated.
He knows he can be more shallow.
To my left, it's meant to pick up a week after the first Batman movie ended,
which is why most of the city, Gotham
City, is still underwater and FEMA is still there.
Like you see, the FEMA truck in the city in after the death of Carmine Falcone.
It leaves this power vacuum within the Falcone crime family.
In his family, like his daughter and his son, are a big part of the series,
as is Salvatore Maroni, played by Clancy Brown.
Of all people. It's going to be amazing.
So Penguin gets into this mad dash for power to fill that power vacuum,
take over the Falcone crime family, and it sounds
like he'll be fighting his widow, as well as his daughter and his son.
Carmine's daughter is Sophia Falcone, played by Cristin Milioti.
You probably recognized her from a million other things.
Just based on the synopsis, though, in the footage in the trailer,
it sounds like she's also going to be Penguin's love interest.
So they'll have a very complicated relationship
where she's low grade fighting him for control of the family.
But he's also trying to hit it throughout the entire series.
Carmine Son is also a big part of the series.
Alberto Falcone It sounds like he'll also be vying
for control of the family as well on his own, like
so this is a three way battle for control of the family.
But you also see Penguin coming to meet Shohreh Aghdashloo, and her men seem like
they're about to kill him, so she seems very powerful.
She might wind up
being the widow of Carmine, or he might be Salvatore Maroni, his wife.
So the using the series to develop more of the mob element in Gotham,
we saw a lot of it during the first Batman movie,
but there are a ton of characters that they didn't feature.
Like, we only saw pictures of Salvatore Maroni.
We didn't actually see him in the flesh because they cast Clancy Brown
and you don't cast him in just one off light roles.
It sounds like he's going to be the main antagonist
to Penguin during the series, like it's about a bunch of terrible people.
So the Penguin is going to be the protagonist of the series.
You have to put him up against someone who's even worse, even more powerful.
That would be Salvatore Maroni, who will be trying to get out of prison
now that he found out what Carmine Falcone did, basically informing on him,
throwing him under the bus,
even though all the mob members in the city, all the different crime families
were part of the money laundering scheme.
With the Gotham City Renewal Fund set up by Thomas Wayne,
you also had the idea that the Batman will be after Penguin as well,
watching him like a hawk, like a bat, if you want to think of it that way.
Technically, bats don't see so well.
They use echolocation.
Even though Penguin in Batman worked together like Penguin helped Batman.
Find out what was going on with Carmine Falcone.
Penguin kind of informed on him.
It took Batman a little while in the movie to actually figure out what he was
really telling him, but he was telling him without telling him outright,
like the call has been coming from inside the room the whole time.
Carmine informed on everyone he was the informant the whole time.
You notice Penguin drives a purple Maserati?
I guess because it's Italian we're talking about.
The mob here seems a little on the nose to make more penguin jokes.
The way that Matt Reeves
described his character during the events of the Batman movie
because it was meant to be Batman Year two,
the Penguin character was still meant to be one of Carmine's lieutenants,
not that powerful, but he still controlled the Iceberg Lounge,
which you also see him going back to during the trailer.
And because this is after the disaster that was caused by the riddler's bombs
and the flooding in the city.
And that's all still going on.
You see the wreckage of the sign outside like the club is still in tatters,
but it's still there.
I love the way they end the trailer, though, with him using the Kingpin
reference because we've been talking about Daredevil coming back in the MCU.
They're filming the Daredevil Born Again series over in the Marvel Universe,
and Kingpin is going to be running for mayor during that,
the kingpin of crime in the city.
But that's basically what Penguin is saying.
He wants to become the kingpin of crime in Gotham City, the de
facto leader of all crime families, not just the Falcone crime family.
Me, I almost comment on what was on
the World
and everything in it.
Matt Reeves also said the series is supposed to bridge
the gap between the first Batman movie and the Batman two,
which is just calling the Batman to right now.
The rumored villains of that are Mr. Freeze.
They've also talked about Clayface.
I believe Matt Reeves said
that he wants to eventually do all the classic Batman villains.
So they'll just get to all of them eventually.
Robert Pattinson is supposed to guest star on the series.
There was some question about the TV rights for Batman and how that was
all working out with Disney, because technically they own the Fox Network in.
Fox had the right to do
Batman on the Gotham Series that they did a couple of years ago.
The way James Gunn explained that it's not an issue.
They can do as much Robert Pattinson Batman during the series as they want to.
So it sounds like he'll be in a couple episodes,
probably a little bit as Bruce Wayne in a little bit as Batman.
But like I said, most of the series will be about Penguin seizing power
within all the different mob families in Gotham in the wake of this disaster
and trying to deal with Salvatore Maroni,
who will probably find a way to get out of prison
and then go after him and try to seize control of all the crime families himself.
Within the history of this Batman universe.
They actually explained that's what happened
the first time around with the Gotham City Renewal Fund and how Salvatore
Maroni was thrown under the bus when he went to prison.
Carmine Falcone basically seized all the Maroni crime family's territory.
And now that Salvatore Maroni is getting out, he's
going to try and take all that back.
So big mob war coming to the Penguin series,
but it's basically Oswald Cobblepot becoming the truer version
of the classic Penguin that you remember from all the previous
Batman movies that take a little bit later in their timeline.
A lot of you now
asking what's going on with the Riddler and Barry Wilkins Joker character.
There's still an Arkham Asylum that's supposedly the next spin off series
that Matt Reeves is developing.
They didn't say when that's going to premiere,
but that'll feature more of Batman's rogues Gallery of villains.
I'm guessing that might drop sometime after the Batman two winds up releasing.
So every couple of years we get a new Batman movie with Robert Pattinson.
In between those, we get the series to bridge the gap.
Pretty much anybody from the movies like Catwoman, obviously Jim Gordon,
the Gotham City Police characters, anybody else that you saw in the movies
is Fair game to show up on this series or the Arkham Asylum series
so the Riddler could come back during this,
Even Barry Wilkins Joker come back during this, too.
The big reminder, though, is that this Robert Pattinson Batman
in any of these characters will not cross over into James Gunn's Gods
and Monsters DCU connected Universe.
So when we get to the Batman Brave in the Bold movie, it'll be all recast versions
of any characters that they use that are similar,
like a new version of The Joker, obviously a new version of Batman.
It sounds like it's going to be a couple of years
before we get to that movie, so it'll be a long time
before people have to worry about that.
For a while,
there were rumors that Ben Affleck was going to come back and direct
like he might direct Batman Brave in The Bold,
but then Ben Affleck was like, Hell no, I'm not coming back.
Now there's rumors that Andy Muschietti, who just directed
The Flash movie, is actually going to be doing Batman Brave in the Bold
because literally everyone at Warner Brothers
and anyone who has seen the movie already claims it is like the greatest movie
to ever hit cinema.
If it really does wind up doing as well as people say it's going to do,
then expect Andy Muschietti
to direct other DC movies inside James Gunn's Gods and Monsters.
We'll see who winds up directing that next rebooted Justice League movie.
Like, would it be James Gunn? Because he's doing Superman Returns?
Or will it wind up being Andy Muschietti
because it sounds like he wants to direct the Justice League movie, too.
I'm sure there's going to be a ton of questions
about what's going on with the series.
We'll probably get a much bigger trailer later this year, so of course I'll do
more videos for when we get more footage because HBO Max is rebranding is just Max.
Like they're just changing the name a little bit.
They announced a bunch of other new TV series with a bunch of teasers
and trailers, like there was a Harry Potter reboot trailer.
I'll do a video for that.
And then there was a Game of Thrones night of the Seven
Kingdoms trailer for the Next Game of Thrones.
Spin off. I'll do a video for that as well too.
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