Penguin Star reveals that the number of scenes he is in Batman II is 2
Colin Farrell played Oz Cobb, aka the Penguin, in 2022’s Matt Reeves’ The Penguin. Later, he reprised the role in HBO Max’s miniseries The Penguin. He nailed it and received 24 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won in 9 categories.
Well, we got news. He’s coming back in The Batman II, which is being filmed. In an interview with ScreenRant’s Liam Crowley for Sugar season sometime back, Colin was asked if he’d read the full script for The Batman II, to which the star responded affirmatively.
He labeled it as “dark,” “terrifying,” “psychologically weighty,” and “nuanced.”Furthermore, he also added that he appears in two scenes in the entire sequel.
Colin Farrell said the following to SR:
Sure. Yeah, the whole thing. We haven’t gone to that place yet where somebody arrives with a titanium briefcase chain to their wrist and seven pages of only my scenes. I got to read from the first to last page, and it’s really magnificent. 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.
Honestly, man, it’s so good. I’m so excited about it. I’m so excited for Matt, Dylan, Robert, and the whole team.
Written by Reeves, and Mattson Tomlin seems to be weighing the flick on the rest of the cast and their take on their roles. Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Charles Dance, Brian Tyree Henry, and Sebastian Koch are the newcomers whose casting Reeves confirmed, along with Colin as Oz and other returning stars, Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, Jayme Lawson as Bella Reál, and Gil-Perez Abraham as Officer Martinez. And also, there’s a rumor of Barry Keoghan returning as the Joker, an enemy of Batman incarcerated in Arkham State Hospital who was credited as “Unseen Arkham Prisoner”.
Sebastian Stan is rumored to play Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, while Scarlett will play Gilda Dent. If the rumors are true, then we can guess why the Penguin has a small part in the upcoming sequel.
Though not a part of James Gunn’s DCU, it is considered an Elseworlds project. But two scenes in the sequel mean that it won’t be the last of the Penguin we’d seen, but there are more chances for his return in the future, and the cameo glimpses could be a hint that something big is brewing in Matt Reeves’ Gotham, or maybe nothing but just a cameo, who knows!?
The Batman: Part II will hit theaters on October 1, 2027.
| Upcoming DCUo* | Release Date | |
| 1. | Clayface | October 23, 2026 |
| 2. | Man of Tomorrow | July 9, 2027 |
| 3. | Booster Gold | TBA |
| 4. | Waller | TBA |
| 5. | The Batman II | October 1, 2027 |
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Pic Credits: DC/WB
