This story consists of spoilers from the season 1 ending of The Penguin
Oz Cobb is here to remain. As Colin Farrell joked following his win at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, “I think it's prosthetics from here on out.” The star took home the award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television. That's rather a mouthful. Still, The Penguin‘s limited-series tag might develop into season 2 before we understand it.
Penguin fans are all set to learn where the story goes from here. According to Matt Reeves, the series supposedly planned to act as a bridge in between the Batman movie and the upcoming follow up, The Batman Part IIRobert Pattinson is set to return as the Dark Knight, with Farrell repeating his function as Oz Cobb. Most just recently, Warner Bros. revealed that the movie was pressed back to 2027. Will fans now wait 3 years before the Penguin returns?
“I constantly stated we're going to continue [the Penguin's] story,” Reeves informed Esquire in September. “Initially, the concept was to continue it in the next movie. And after that when we were speaking about doing programs, I was speaking with[[The Batman manufacturer]Dylan Clark and [HBO heads] Casey Bloys and Sarah Aubrey. Casey stated, ‘Look, I simply wish to state, I hope you're not going to conserve the marquee characters for simply the films. This is HBO.' And I resembled, ‘Okay, let me inform you what this sort of Scarface-esque story is.' It isn't his origin story. It's sort of like Batman's story– the manner in which I did it– due to the fact that there ‘d been many origin tales. It's the early days; it's the origins of all of the rogues'-gallery characters.”
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Will Oz Cobb return?
From what Reeves is leaning on, it appears that HBO might head in a various instructions if The Penguin season 2 does not turn out. There's been a lot of Joker storytelling in Hollywood currently, so I ‘d encourage DC not to put more of him on our screens. Numerous of Gotham's biggest bad guys, consisting of Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Bane, Mister Freeze, Scarecrow, and Clayface, would make for similarly engaging spin-off topics.
No matter what, a minimum of one villain might come back in Gotham: Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti). When we asked Milioti what sort of functions she wish to take on next in her profession, she stated, “I would like to play Sofia once again, however I would likewise be so thinking about– I indicate, this is off the top of my head. I'm certainly thinking about doing things I have not done yet.”
And by the method: I'm sorry to report that there is a near-zero possibility that we'll ever see bad Victor Aguilar once again.
