The question of how significant The Penguin’s role in The Batman – Part II will be gets an interesting answer from Colin Farrell as he discusses the upcoming DC sequel. As Matt Reeves’ The Batman universe got fleshed out on the small screen through The Penguin TV show, Oz Cobb’s power has grown, making him a more dangerous player in the franchise. While The Penguin season 2 may not have been greenlit, the world will not have to wait too long to see Farrell’s take on the famous Batman foe again.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Farrell stressed that “I haven’t even read a script yet” for The Batman – Part II, despite Reeves having revealed at San Diego Comic-Con this summer that Oz would be back for the sequel. However, Farrell revealed to THR how many scenes he has been told he will be in The Batman – Part II, while also adding that he is signed up for the trilogy:
Colin Farrell: Not really. I certainly don’t expect anything. 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. 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. 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 s**t 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.
