Concept art of Colin Farrell as the Penguin before they decided on the prosthetics

Concept art of Colin Farrell as the Penguin before they decided on the prosthetics

Thoughts? Looks cool but also seems like a generic mobster

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Should have dyed him blonde to go for the full Emperor Penguin getup

Why did it have to be Colin Farrell?

Also here’s concept art of the riddler. Before they cast Paul dano I guess. Looks like guy Pearce to me

Interesting he has a more masculine butch look here, not the pencil neck he was in the movie

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That's literally Tom Hardy

Reeves wanted him because of his performance in In Bruges, and from the concept art clearly he was initially gonna just look like Colin Farrell

It was pretty late on they experimented with the prosthetics and when it turned out pretty well they rolled with it. Definitely helped him get a more unique performance too

Plus he actually seems like a larger than life character thanks to the club foot, weird face, huge gut etc. there’s basically nothing to make him the penguin from these initial designs. I get Matt reeves wanted it to be “realistic” but come on

Glimpse of joker

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I really hated the Joker tease at the end of the film. Especially since they were going for such an unimaginative and tired take, judging by that deleted scene.
Hopefully they'll change it up if Keoghan's Joker has to appear again.

Bruce was also clearly meant to have the more standard playboy persona early on too based on this

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Yeah it sucked. Would’ve preferred just Barry keoghan except he’s super pale than the elephant man mixed with Heath ledger we got

Also batman could have had grappling guns built into his arms instead of the standard grappling gun.

Cool idea. Why not, he has tasers already so why not have some grappling arms

Can be used for traversal and combat

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We don’t see this in the movie but they must have built it. Sticky explosive gun. We see him stick one of the individual explosives by hand, earlier he detonated like twenty to break the glass in the stadium so presumably that’s when he would have used this

Inspired by the Arkham games seems like

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If Keoghan was made up like Conrad Veidt then I think that could work. Really, I just want to see a 'Man Who Laughs' Joker, no matter who's playing him. I'm fucking sick of the dark n gritty n hyperrealistic scarred and diseased look.

Kizaru?

left looks closest to the penguin and the one next to it is too menacing for the first film

Concept art has more traditional cape glider, so hopefully he develops this in future movies rather than sticking to the squirrel suit

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Rescuing flood victims

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I guess maybe the intro fight would’ve happened on the train instead possibly

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Really loved the way Gotham looked in the movie. Design and architecture was fantastic. Great mix of some huge metropolitan city with old gothic structures intertwined

Apparently it’s a mix of Liverpool, Chicago and New York

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so glad the final film wasnt this brown
i can see why it got changed batmans entrance is better when you can only hear his foot steps coming from the dark also fights in compact spaces are kind of overdone

I think the original plan was just to have him with a fatsuit to look bulkier

He looks skinny here which is probably why they gave him the cigarette holder

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The actual riddler costume was very consistent early on. Just played around with his logo and glasses a little

Very Zodiac killer here

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Reeves really loves Azzarello's Joker, huh?
They keep reusing the same gross lips design at least even in concept art.

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They did a fantastic job on it. Lot of character even though it's meant to be grounded, which just massively shows up Nolan's complete lack of effort re Gotham in the Dark Knight Trilogy. It's a very close runner up to the Furst/Burton Gotham from '89 imo.
I also appreciated how close The Penguin stayed to this vision of the city.

his hair was originally not covered

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I think it was Paul dano who came up with th plastic covering it (also probably a smarter thing to do to not leave evidence like stray hair behind)

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Yeah, obviously they had less budget in the Penguin for that kind of detail but it was a good look at the poor devastated slums and shitty areas we aren’t really gonna see in a Batman movie much.

Also cool how the Carmine home was basically outside of Gotham. I think they established Gotham was in New Jersey in the movie

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More Gotham scenery

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I'm convinced Riddler: Year One and The Penguin were absolutely flukes and we should never expect something good out of the BATMAN EPIC CRIME SAGA ever again.

I thought this was Netflix one piece

it would have looked weird being the only thing not covered too

picrel

probably the scene where selina asks batman what he looks like
i thought it was a bit odd how they made it seem like no rich people live in downtown gotham either
this gotham is one of those cities which i wish were real purely architecturally

Why the fuck would that be on Anon Babble? Kys.

What i didn’t like in The Batman’s plot it really made up with with its Art Deco lighting style. Penguin was great with how they kept that for every single dark or nighttime scene, felt actually much better than what they did in the film somehow

What’s the name of the building penguin owns in the finale?

Is this it? Can’t remember

Riddler: Year One

Hang on, this was worth reading?

Shame the Reevesverse is probably getting canned due to Gunn not wanting a competing batman to his interconnected universe one

They already delayed batman 2 and I doubt we will get more than that.

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La Couronne
more films/series should do that. Only time it was dark and hard to see in Penguin was when they were burying the bodies in episode 2, and that was intentionally to give Oz a morbid look from the reflections

zaslav would have written off the penguin if the reevesverse got canned

Abso-fucking-lutely, Anon Babble has been gushing about it since it came out. Where have you been? I'll storytime it ITT when I'm done doing something else.

Maybe, I figured it was either too far in production already (as in too many contracts already signed) or it was a test to see how popular it would be (and I haven’t heard amazing things about it’s ratings despite how acclaimed it was, might get more over time though)

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Can’t even tell what’s going on with Batmans belly here. Looks like a wrestling championship belt or something

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Why would it be canned? They've long-since announced that Part II is in the works and that Gunn's version of Batman in the new DCCU will be separate and distinct from Battinson

Anyone care to explain what “throwing sticks” or “bo shurikens” are?

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I think I read maybe the first issue back when it came out but I didn't follow up on the rest.
So does this mean Dano is going to become a classic comic book writer now too?

throwing sticks

Probably what Nightwing uses in Arkham games for a projectile.

Anyone else remember when the pics of the stunt double in the costume leaked and we all thought it looked terrible? Movie magic huh, looked good in the movie

Also was his cape cgi for the bike scenes or something?

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They usually cgi capes for stuff like that because it could easily get caught in wheels and shit

Seeing him switch from british accent to new jersey accent was bizarre

I didn’t notice it much, thought he did a great job overall

Maybe one of the shouting scenes towards the end had him slip a little into Irish

Nothing about this looked good in the film. Every design sucked.

No reason whatsoever to think this

Why didn't they just hire a short fat bald man

Because they know they can't get shorter and balder than Danny DeVito

Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light Batman?

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