The Penguin wrapped its critically acclaimed run, and Colin Farrell is already looking forward to being Oz Cobb again.
Matt Reeves is busy away crafting a follow-up to his beloved 2022 film The Batman, with this year’s The Penguin serving as a launching pad for that new tale. Farrells tells The Hollywood Reporter that the future is very bright for his future in Gotham.
“I signed up for three Batman films, but I didn’t know if I’d be in the second film. Matt Reeves is a brilliant writer and an extraordinary filmmaker, and what I’m most excited-slash-nervous about in the second film is not what Oz does – or what predicaments he finds himself in, or what moments of success he gets to experience – but what his voice is,” Farrell tells THR.
He continues, “How is his personality? It was forming and changing in the limited series, and, by the end of the eight episodes, it’s concretized into something else. There is a degree of almost delusion psychopathy present in the last scene.”
The actor says, “So how is that taken up in the second film? I was told I have five or six scenes. I don’t have any hopes or any expectations. I’m really an open book, and that’s the way I get excited by shit or not. I think sometimes actors if they have a career that has a certain length of time, they sometimes get to make too many decisions. Which isn’t to say I won’t push back or argue or fight in Oz’s corner – I do believe I know him better than anyone now.”
Farrell does reveal that he has yet to see a script, as Matt Reeves keeps his plans for the Batman sequel very close to his chest.
Batman Part II is set to arrive on October 2nd, 2026, while The Penguin is now streaming on Max. You can read our episode reviews of the series here.
