the latest featurette for HBO's highly anticipated the Penguin Series has dropped providing fans with a closer look at the show's main characters and story this comes ahead of the Batman spin-off streaming debut next week the video features the cast and creative team as they discuss what to expect from the next chapter in O cobblepot store story a week after the death of his boss Carmine Falcone it highlights his desire to take over Carmine Falcone's position as he goes up against the former mob boss children Sophia and Alberto who are the natural heirs to their father's criminal Empire in the featured executive producer Matt Reeves also opened up about exploring the other side of Gotham where corruption and the criminal underworld reside it also teases oza's complex relationship with his mother who is one of his major influences based on DC characters created by Bob and Bill Finger the penguin is written and executive produced by showrunner Lauren lefrance with Craig zel directing the first three episodes the series will be led by Oscar nominee Colin frell as he reprises as cobblepot from the 2022 Movie the epic crime Saga Chronicles the titular villains journey to becoming the notorious crime Lord we all come to know joining Ferell are Christen milot as Sophia Falcone reny phiz as Victor Aguilar Michael Kelly as Johnny VII sha aashu as Nadia Moroni deardra oconnell as Francis Cobb Clancy Brown as Salvadore James Mio as Milo graa Scott Cohen as Luca Falcone Michael Zan as Alberto Falcon Carmen joogo as Eve Carlo Theo Rossi as Dr Julian rush and more in a previous interview Lu Frank revealed how the upcoming series will help fans differentiate Colin Ferrell's version of the iconic DC villain from other iterations this is what differentiates him from previous versions of the penguin in the comics where he used to come from a wealthy well-known family LF Frank said Matt had already made him an underdog in that he was number two to Carmine Falcone in the film but we didn't know anything about his family so it was important to me that he comes from nothing and he's really aching to get more status and be seen as more important Robert Patterson's Batman won't appear in the penguin following circulating rumors about Robert Patterson's appearance in the penguin Reeves had finally clarified the speculations about Bruce wayne/batman involvement in the upcoming series despite initial assumptions he officially confirmed that patson's the Dark Knight won't have a cameo appearance in the HBO spin-off Rob is not going to be in the show reev said I'd rather take the Band-Aid off now we did talk about all that but we felt the best way to do this was to go on a grand exploration of a guy grabbing for power in this moment