Gotham PD tv series

[Raph's Girl]

To compete with Agents of SHIELD, FOX is gonna be doing a Gotham PD show. Batman/Bruce won't show up, however it's being described as an "Origin Story for Comissioner Gordon and the villains" So yeah.. No Bruce but everyone else will pop up.

Wonder who they'll cast as Jim Gordon?

http://www.superheromoviesnews.com/2...ham-pd-tv.html

[The Stryker]

DC and WB continue their "Us too!" game.

[CyberCubed]

So its just going to be another generic cop show with a guy who vaguely resembles a younger Jim Gordon before he met Batman.

So its basically him in "name only," where as I said...it could be any other generic cop show.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by The Stryker

DC and WB continue their "Us too!" game.

This. If this isn't DC's attempt to "checkmate" Marvel's new Agents of SHIELD series, I don't know what it is.

[Cure]

I'm almost a little embarrassed for DC at this point.

[Zulithe]

Will watch.

Not exactly the Gotham show I dream about but it's enough to get me tuned in.

[NinjaPug]

Gordon against Batman's rogues gallery without Batman. Not so sure about that.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Cure

I'm almost a little embarrassed for DC at this point.

Hahaha, yeah.

Oh well, I really enjoyed the Gotham Central comic book series, I thought it worked well with very limited actual Batman. I would just hope for the show to eventually nut up and have Batman be a recurring character. Or at least a presence.

[dkram230]

I will give this series a try. Although I would really like a true live action Batman series to air. The closest we've got in recent decades was Birds of Prey. Which despite some questionable acting was still amazing. I just wish the rest of the world thought that too.

[raph27]

Originally Posted by The Stryker

DC and WB continue their "Us too!" game.

Is this all DC can do these days?

[Raph's Girl]

So... Looks like we'll see Bruce Wayne in the series at least. But he won't be Batman yet as when we first meet him he'll be a recently orphaned 10 year old. The casting call says he'll be a series regular as well....fun...

Filming starts in March.

http://comicbook.com/blog/2013/12/07...in-march-2014/

[Krutch]

I really don't see why Marvel or DC don't have live action shows about their key players. Lois and Clark was a big hit back in the day and technology has only gotten better. All this Smallville and Birds of Prey dancing around showing us what we want to see is exhausting, and quite frankly I'm not even sure why it even exists. Even Aquaman was going to have a 'pre-Aquaman' show. And Robin a 'pre-Batman' Robin show. Just give us a damn supehero show! No twists! Arrow is on but much like Man of Steel and Smallville, it's like their almost too embarrassed to actually call them by their actual superhero name. Which is why I'm reserving judgement on The Flash. For all we know, now that he has it's own pilot, it might be him trying to figure out who he is and they'll all call him "the red streak" or some nonsense.

It just seems like such a wasted opportunity not to have these shows out while superheroes are big. Marvel, too. How come no live action X-Men series? Or Hulk? Really how hard would it be to make a Punisher series? It's mind boggling...

[ZariusTwo]

This has the potential to go all kinds of wrong....nobody wants to consider Batman annoying so write Bruce well here.

[Jester]

Executive #1 - Hmm, we have an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. rip off in the works, but how can we make it a success?

Executive #2 - We could put Batman in it...

Executive #3 = BRILLIANT!!

[NinjaPug]

Update on GOTHAM. Batman will be in it:

Spoiler:

FOX's Gotham Is a Batman Origin Story and Will Have a Christopher Nolan-Esque Tone
"Gotham on the brink."

by Roth Cornet JANUARY 13, 2014

Back in September, it was announced that FOX had given a straight-to-series order to a new live-action television series entitled Gotham, which was purportedly an origin story for*Commissioner Gordon. Many of us were left wondering how the network planned to do a comic-based TV show without a superhero at its center. What would distinguish Gotham from another cop/detective series?

At today's TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour*Chairman of Entertainment at FOX Kevin Reilly revealed that this series would indeed function as an origin story for Batman.

"This is an origin story for young Bruce Wayne," Reilly said, promising that all of the classic Batman characters and villains would make an appearance, including: The Penguin, The Riddler, Commissioner Gordon, and The Joker. This is a series about "Gotham on the brink" he said, and "how they all became who they were, what events led up to these characters becoming Catwoman [and so on]." The Chairman described the series as "operatic" and "larger-than-life."

It will follow Bruce Wayne from childhood through his development into the Dark Night, with the final episode marking the moment when he puts on the cape. They're not certain what age young Bruce will be at this point, but Reilly estimates that he will be about 13 at the start of the series. "The actor will grow-up, if we do our job well he'll be a young man and ready [to be Batman] by the end," he said. "Which isn't to say we might not skip ahead."

Reilly followed up by saying that this would be a serialized show that will function on its own, separate from the Warner Brothers DC cinematic universe. "We own all the rights.That's what we're licencing," he said. "They brought us the entire franchise for a very healthy licence fee. We're not negotiating this piece meal. We have all of the underlying Batman rights for the entire franchise for this series."

He continued, saying, "That's what I like about this, it's not some sort of adjunct companion series. This is the Batman franchise, just backing it up. I think that gives it a real focus as to what the show is about and what stories we're telling."

There will be no connection to the Batman/Bruce Wayne that*Ben Affleck will be introducing in*Zack Snyder's Man of Steel 2, tentatively titled Batman vs. Superman. "Warner Brothers manages the entire franchise and its one of their top global franchises of all," Reilly said."So there will be an awareness of both and we'll have to coordinate when we're in the market place, but the productions are not piggy-backing off one another."

The series will be in the vein of the grittier tone that Christopher Nolan established in his Dark Knight trilogy, it will be very organic to that world, though Nolan will not have a direct connection to the production. We won't see Batman's*cape and cowl till the series' conclusion, as mentioned, and it will be a slow reveal on the Supervillains alter-egos as well. "We're arcing to that," Reilly clarified. "We're not starting in that world where the villains are in costume. You see markers for it that are kind of delicious. You begin to see the evolution of the eccentricities that become those characters, but you really sort of arc there. We don't start out in capes and costumes."

When asked if there is a possibility that they may spinoff additional characters, Reilly said that he "certainly hopes so." Adding, "Do I think we'll peel out The Riddler? I don't. There's a large tapestry of characters to service over many years. So I hope we can just keep it on for a long, long run."

As the the number of episodes, Reilly jokes that, "Warner Brothers would like it to be 22 because they'd like as many as they can get," but no decisions have been made in regards to either the length of the series or a premiere date.

The show begins staffing shortly, with scripts expected to quickly following.

We will keep you updated as details on this series emerge.

[Slade]

So, this will be what they planned back in the day before Smallville. It also sounds exactly like Smallville.

[CyberCubed]

This sounds stupid. Bruce Wayne will only be 13 and there will already be criminals like Joker, Riddler, and Penguin in Gotham City?

So we're going to have young 13 year old Bruce running around with Gordon while these supervillains already exist? And Bruce isn't going to become Batman till the series finale...?

How is this going to work?

[NinjaPug]

Could be wrong but it sounds like the show will also tell the origins of the villains so they wouldnt be villains right off the bat.

Either way, this could be a pretty big mess. Of course I'll still watch it.

[sdp]

[Well it'll probably be similar to Smallville who also encountered most of his rogues gallery before even becoming Superman, I don't know, it could be alright or it could be terrible.

[CyberCubed]

The difference is Clark was already superpowered even if he wasn't Superman.

This Bruce Wayne is a 13 year old kid with no martial arts training and all the villains will probably be adults. This just feels wrong.