‘The Penguin’ Second Teaser: ‘Batman’ Villain Prevails Over Flooded Gotham City, Finds Potential Foe In Cristin Milioti’s Gangster

The second teaser for Max’s DC series The Penguin dropped this morning and behold, the aftermath which Batman has created per Colin Farrell’s title character who calls him a “madman” in today’s teaser. It’s a new world, John Turturro’s crime kingpin Carmine Falcone is dead and The Penguin is in charge.

Or is he?

Front and center in the second teaser is Cristin Milioti’s fierce Sofia Falcone: “I’m the daughter of the Falcone don, but he’s dead…I refuse to let these old men push me aside again. So, I’m gonna take from them now. And I’m gonna force them to their knees.”

Like many femme villains in the latest canon of Batman post Tim Burton’s 1992 movie, Batman Returns, they’re not entirely evil. Femme fatales are more like it, and it looks like Penguin has found one in Sofia.

The eight-episode series, which first went into development in September 2021, a spinoff of Matt Reeve’s The Batman 2022 $772M-grossing blockbuster, will finally premiere this September.

The Penguin was developed by showrunner Lauren LeFranc.

Series also stars Cristin Milioti (Sofia Falcone), Rhenzy Feliz (Victor Aguilar), Michael Kelly (Johnny Viti), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Nadia Maroni), Deirdre O’Connell (Francis Cobb), Clancy Brown (Salvatore Maroni), James Madio (Milos Grapa), Scott Cohen (Luca Falcone), Michael Zegen (Alberto Falcone), Carmen Ejogo (Eve Karlo) and Theo Rossi (Dr. Julian Rush).  
 
The Penguin was executive produced by Reeves, Dylan Clark, Colin Farrell, LeFranc, who writes and serves as showrunner, Craig Zobel, who directs the first three episodes, and Bill Carraro. Series is based on characters created for DC by Bob Kane with Bill Finger, and produced by Reeves’ 6th & Idaho Productions and Dylan Clark Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Reeves and 6th & Idaho have an overall deal at WBTV. Daniel Pipski also serves as executive producer.  

Reeves’ Batman is part of a DC else-verse, which runs alongside Peter Safran and James Gunn’s Phase One of their “Gods and Monsters” DC universe (which kicks off with the July 11, 2025, theatrical release of Superman). Reeves’ feature sequel, The Batman II, hits cinemas on October 2, 2026. Safran and Gunn have their own Batman in the works with Andy Muschietti directing, The Brave and the Bold, which follows Bruce Wayne and the spitfire, renegade son he didn’t know he had: Damien Wayne, who takes on the alias of Robin.