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The Penguin just might be getting anothe rseason! The HBO series from DC Studios stars Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb (aka The Penguin), and is a continuation of the saga that filmmaker Matt Reeves began with the global blockbuster The Batman. Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Clancy Brown, James Madio, Scott Cohen, Michael Zegen, Carmen Ejogo, and Theo Rossi all star. Following the conclusion of the show’s first season, many viewers are curious if it will continue on for a second season. Keep reading to find out more… HBO has not currently renewed The Penguin for Season 2, but The Batman‘s director spoke to the story’s continuation in an interview in November. “I always said we’re going to continue [the Penguin’s] story,” Matt Reeves recently told Esquire. “Initially, the idea was to continue it in the next film (The Batman Part II). And then when we were talking about doing shows, I was talking to [The Batman producer] Dylan Clark and [HBO heads] Casey Bloys and Sarah Aubrey,” he went on. “Casey said, ‘Look, I just want to say, I hope you’re not going to save the marquee characters for just the movies. This is HBO.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, let me tell you what this kind of Scarface-esque story is.’ It isn’t his origin story. It’s sort of like Batman’s story—the way that I did it—because there’d been so many origin tales. It’s the early days; it’s the origins of all of the rogues’-gallery characters.” Also in November, the showrunner said it’s not out of the question. A new interview from The Direct with showrunner Lauren LeFranc is the first time Season 2 has been addressed. “I mean, we put it all out on the table. I think that in order to do a second season, we have to feel like we can top ourselves. We have to feel like there’s something more there to really dig into. I mean, I really care about all these characters, even if they’re terrible people,” she said. “It’s been a joy to write them, even though they’re twisted and complicated and weird and darkly funny. So look, I think Gotham City is just such a fun sandbox to play, and I’d love to keep playing in it, but I think it just has to be the right thing. We should never do anything just to do it.” By December, Matt Reeves confirmed that conversations are happening about Season 2. “Yeah, we’re talking to [showrunner] Lauren [LeFranc] about doing another season. That was a special experience. I just feel really fortunate. These characters don’t belong to me; they belong to the world. It comes down to whether you can approach them in a way that expresses something personal,” he said, via Variety. However, it’s not so clear if Colin Farrell would even want to return for Season 2. When asked about reprising his role for a second season, he told Total Film: “I don’t know, man. Don’t get me wrong – I loved it – but it got in on me a little bit. By the end of it, I was bitching and moaning to anyone who would listen to me that I f-cking wanted it to be finished.” Find out what else he said about the idea.
