Months before The Batman even hit movie screens, Warner Bros. had a plan for a “Scarface-like” spinoff focusing on Colin Farrell’s character, the Penguin. Now, the long-percolating series has a working title—creatively called The Penguin—and an expanding cast. Deadline reports that Cristin Milioti is joining the cast as Sofia Falcone, daughter of Carmine Falcone, who battles the Penguin over control of Gotham.
Sofia Falcone made her first appearance in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s acclaimed Batman series The Long Halloween. As you might expect from the daughter of a crime boss, she has a bit of a checkered past. Crystal Reed played Sofia on Gotham, on which she also went after a Penguin, teaming up with Jim Gordon in a complicated plot against Oswald Cobblepot.
Milioti has had a handful of SFF-adjacent roles over the years, from her turn in Palm Springs to two seasons of the tech dramedy Made for Love (above), in which she played the understandably angry wife of a tiresome tech bro who puts a chip in her head. She recently starred with William Jackson Harper (who is also making the comic-book series move with the next Ant-Man) in The Resort.
The Penguin may or may not be the first of a handful of spinoffs to expand The Batman director Matt Reeves’ dark and grimy vision of Gotham. Lauren LeFranc (a writer and producer on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is writer and showrunner on the series.
No premiere date has been announced.
