The latest superhero crime drama Gotham TV series has confirmed that Joker will join season 1 of the series as showrunner reveals "everything" about the Batman prequel. Want to know more about the Gotham TV series? Well then here's the scoop.
Fox's new crime series has been a big buzz after the latter released their first official trailer three days ago. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the series showrunner Bruno Heller has confirmed that Batman's arch nemesis the Joker will be part of the show and also referenced the rest of the characters he wanted put in Gotham.
"He's the crown jewel of the Batman villains. He will be brought in with great care and a lot of thought.
Obviously, the Penguin, Riddler, young Catwoman, Alfred. Possibly Harvey Dent. Poison Ivy. Um ... and then there will be others, but I hate to - I'm so used to doing a police procedural, so I'm used to telling, 'Next week he's going to go there.' With this, it's very much storytelling.
So I would be remiss to tell you who will show up when," he added. "I will say we're not going to skimp on giving people the characters they want and expect from Gotham. But when and how they're going to show up is half the fun. Penguin is one of those guys that, as soon as you see him, you go, 'Oh, that's the Penguin.' It would be hard to disguise him as somebody else."
Bruno Heller also commented on the late Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker and Christopher Nolan's take on the Dark Knight trilogy.
"I've written scenes for Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony and Cleopatra. So while that is a serious and valid note, you can't get into doing this without going there. That was a wonderful performance and - apart from everything else - wonderful make-up. And we should try to live up to that. It will be a different character. It's certainly going to be more Heath Ledger than Cesar Romero. But like I say, all of these people are real people with feelings and emotions and history and parents. I just build from that."
"I'm not at all concerned. Actually I would [pauses ... considers] - yeah, in that area, I would say in terms of what [director and executive producer Danny Cannon and director of photography David Stockton] are doing - visually - Gotham will surpass the Batman movies. The movies are a very rigorous, kind of Germanic take on that world. They're visually stunning, but not particularly visually pleasurable. I would say this is much more on the street level of Gotham. There's more people, it's a more colorful place, it's a more vivid place, it's more crowded. The inspiration for me and Danny was New York in the '70s, because we both remember that as a seminal moment, coming to the city for the first time. This is very much that kind of Gotham - intensely visual and three-dimensional and layered and gritty and dirty and sexy and dangerous. From that point of view - and it's easy for me to say, I just have to write the thing, Danny and David have to visualize it - but I think you'll see it's fabulous."
Heller also revealed some of his insights and certain limitations concerning Gotham and it's run for television.
"There's precursors to that for the villains and the heroes. They got inspiration from other people, and it's about how they got to that point in the world. It's invigorating and expansive how many stories you can tell once you get away from the gravity of Batman. What happens with superheroes is they suck all the air out of the room."
"You can't play a scene between two people when there's a guy in a cape and a mask in the corner of the room," he added. "As far as the history goes, people don't know the ins and outs of it. Even in the well-known stories, there are secrets and backstories that people are not aware of. We also have the pre-iconic villains, like Fish Mooney, played by Jada Pinkett Smith, and those characters that people won't have seen before."
