Colin Farrell has confirmed he only appears in two scenes as the Penguin in The Batman Part II, but would love to play the character again in a potential Season 2 of the HBO show, insisting “there’s a conversation to be had.”
Farrell is set to don the prosthetics once again as the Penguin in The Batman Part II, now due out February 18, 2028, having played the character first in The Batman and again in the well-received The Penguin HBO Max show.
In an interview on UK show This Morning to promote his upcoming film The Slightest Touch, Farrell was asked about playing the Penguin once again.
“I’d love to. I’d love to do a second season. There’s a conversation to be had,” he replied. Farrell then talked about his role in The Batman Part II.
“So the Batman film, they’re doing the sequel to The Batman, and I did two scenes in that. Just that. In and out. It was a bit tasty to do it. I was kind of moaning about the makeup again, but I do love the character and I’m very protective of the character. And there’s definitely a conversation to be had about doing a second season.”
The Batman movies are from writer and director Matt Reeves, who recently drafted in Ocean’s 11 director Steven Soderbergh to help him finish principal photography on the sequel while he deals with a personal matter. Those Batman films, alongside The Penguin TV show, form part of what is called The Batman Epic Crime Saga, which is separate to James Gunn’s rebooted DC Universe.
Gunn’s plan was to introduce a Batman of his own with The Brave and the Bold, but after this week’s dramatic news about his and fellow DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran’s exit from the company, the future of the DCU and indeed a third potential Batman movie from Matt Reeves is up in the air. New Warner Bros. owner Skydance has yet to outline its plans for DC movies and TV shows, with both Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow and Reeves’ The Batman Part II still down for release in theaters.
As for Farrell, in June he said he had read The Batman Part II script, which was written by Reeves and Mattson Tomlin, and loved it. Speaking to ScreenRant, Farrell described the script, and his involvement in the movie.
“I got to read from the first to last page and it’s really magnificent,” he said. “I just think Matt Reeves is brilliant and he wrote, not only tonally, a really kind of dark and at times terrifying piece, and not only psychologically weighty and nuanced, but really feeling. It’s a really… There’s moments in it. It’s full of feeling. I just think he wrote kind of a contemporary genre masterpiece, really. I’m only in two scenes, which is great because it means I can enjoy the rest of the film.”
