Pennyworth - The Origin of Batman's Butler -

[JohnC]

With Gotham ending, Bruno Heller is doing another pre-Batman show, with Danny Cannon. Pennyworth is, of course, about Alfred. He's a former SAS soldier who forms a security company and goes to work for Thomas Wayne. Set in 60s London. Premium cable network Epix has ordered a 10-episode season.

[buizel]

Huh, Gotham is ending? Wonder what the logo will look like.

 

Trying to imagine the words 'Pennyworth' in huge embossed text with guns and explosions and CIA badges coming out the wazoo

[Broker]

 

Someone got the wrong message from the Teen Titans trailer.

[K]

Looking forward to more series covering the absolute minutiae of the Batverse, before it became interesting, i.e. Dick Grayson - America's Most Nimble Embryo, Ebenezer Wayne's Folly: The Construction of Wayne Manor and The Theatre Thomas & Martha Wayne Were Shot Outside Chronicles

[Harsin]

Well I thought you couldn’t scrape the bottom of the barrel more than the adventures of Superman's granddad. They showed me.

[JohnC]

Next it'll be the adventures of two college friends, Martha & Martha.

[Alex W.]

A riveting ten-episode documentary about the life cycle of bats that’s actually a backdoor pilot for the origins of the Batcave.

[cassidy]

Close the forum. K’s done it. No one can beat that. 

[Alex W.]

What’s new?

[Nick R]

2 hours ago, JohnC said:

Next it'll be the adventures of two college friends, Martha & Martha.

 

Mark Millar once wrote a Marvel comic about two teenagers called May and Mary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_(comics)

 

Edit:

We're Martha and Martha

Whooooo!

[JohnC]

Jack Bannon is playing Alfred and Ben Aldridge is Thomas Wayne. Production begins in a week in Leavesden studios.

[JohnC]

They've got their villain. Paloma Faith.

 

I see she has acted before, but I've only seen one thing she was in and I don't remember if she was any good.

[SpagMasterSwift]

Was it The Voice?

[JohnC]

Jason Flemyng is in. Lord Harwood, "an upper-class English gentleman who is cultured, urbane, brilliant and supremely sure of himself. However, he also holds a sadistic, cruel nature with a veneer of charm".

[Alex W.]

WHY

[JohnC]

Short teaser

 

 

[Stig]

On 16/05/2018 at 19:50, Broker said:

 

Someone got the wrong message from the Teen Titans trailer.

 

I've only just seen this is a thing and this is exactly what I was thinking.

[JohnC]

They appear to have thrown all the stereotypes at this one

 

 

[Harsin]

 

[JohnC]

 

[Harsin]

A swinging sixties spy show could be fun, but the license actually makes me less interested because we'll have to watch them cram in painful foreshadowing and bat imagery at every opportunity and like most of the projects the characters have no choice but to spin their wheels because ether have to end up where we know.

[AK Bell]

When they said it would be a younger Alfred, I didn't think he'd look 12. 

[Alex W.]

More like Epic's Unreal Engine series.

[JohnC]

3 episodes out there. I’ve seen the first two. An incredible amount of faux-Cockney wideboy nonsense and suchlike. Which I’m finding enjoyable, but I’m not sure you guys would. Also very sweary.

 

Don't expect realism either. It’s even gone as far as (not particularly spoilery, apart from a world building sense)

Spoiler

live televised executions at the Tower, complete with sponsors. Hung, drawn and quartered. 

 

[Vespa Alex]

I’m finding this quite interesting so far. The blend of real and dystopian London is intriguing and Paloma Faith is surprisingly good at being sinister. 

[DirkCrisis]

This is on Starz and, like everything else on Starz, is OK and not terrible. It's weird a mixture of silly Michael Caine cockney gangster bullshit and a kitchen sink drama.

 

It isn't boring but I'm not sure that it's good. I haven't seen loads in the way of foreshadowing, rather it's just a bunch of ex-SAS men doing jobs after they leave the Army.

[Steve McQueef]

Caught a few episodes of this on my flight back from New York. 

 

I liked what I saw, despite its best efforts to put me off, by being hilariously grimdark and throwing out swears like it has Tourette's. 

 

I like Jack Bannon, he has an amiable quality about him. Baby-faced for sure, but he can certainly handle himself. The Michael Caine voice is obviously intentional, and Bannon has admitted as such, as Caine's version was a jumping off point for him, (and the producers, with regards to some of the plot points in the show).

 

Some of the best stuff for me, was when Alfred and his ex-army mates are together.

 

Paloma Faith can fuck right off, mind. 

[Vespa Alex]

I thought Paloma was great in this. Far better than I expected her to be. 

[probotector]

I hated Michael Caine Alfred so this just winds me up.

 

I keep thinking the guy was going to turn around and say, “I’m Michael Caine, and I’m a nosey neighbour”

[JohnC]

Second season of this mad nonsense just started, US time. End of February for UK.