Colin Farrell Confirms He&x27;ll Reprise Penguin Role in “The Batman 2”, Teases a &x27;Terrifying&x27; Script Rachel RaposasFri, June 12, 2026 at 8:57 PM UTC 0 Colin Farrell, and his character the Penguin.Credit: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; Macall Polay/HBO Colin Farrell is officially returning to Gotham City as the Penguin Farrell revealed he&x27;s read the The Batman 2&x27;s full script, which is "terrifying" and "psychologically weighty" The Batman 2, currently filming, is set for an October 2027 release Over a year after director Matt Reeves declared that the Penguin will be in The Batman 2, ...
Colin Farrell Confirms He'll Reprise Penguin Role in “The Batman 2”, Teases a 'Terrifying' Script
Rachel RaposasFri, June 12, 2026 at 8:57 PM UTC
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Colin Farrell, and his character the Penguin.Credit: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; Macall Polay/HBO -
Colin Farrell is officially returning to Gotham City as the Penguin
Farrell revealed he's read the The Batman 2's full script, which is "terrifying" and "psychologically weighty"
The Batman 2, currently filming, is set for an October 2027 release
Over a year after director Matt Reeves declared that the Penguin will be in The Batman 2, Colin Farrell confirmed he is officially returning to Gotham City.
The 50-year-old actor will be reprising his role as crime kingpin Oz Cobb (a.k.a. the Penguin) in the movie, expected to debut in October 2027, he told ScreenRant. Farrell first stepped into the role in 2022 in The Batman, and again in the film's 2024 spinoff miniseries, The Penguin, focused on his ruthless character as the protagonist.
Farrell revealed he's read the full script of The Batman 2, which is currently filming. His character only appears in two scenes throughout the sequel, Farrell said, but he's "so excited" to see the full thing come to fruition.
The Penguin.Credit: Macall Polay/HBO
"I got to read from the first to last page and it's really magnificent," Farrell 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... There's moments in it — it's full of feeling."
"I just think he wrote kind of a contemporary genre masterpiece, really," he continued, adding that his limited appearance in the film allows him to "enjoy the rest" of it.
As Farrell's role in The Batman 2 is smaller, ScreenRant reported that other newcomers to the franchise confirmed by Reeves — including Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Charles Dance, Brian Tyree Henry and Sebastian Koch — are set to take on more screen time.
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The first film, starring Robert Pattinson in the titular role, sees Bruce Wayne navigate his second year as Gotham's resident vigilante when a serial killer goes after several prominent public figures. The star-studded cast also included Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, Barry Keoghan and Andy Serkis.
Two years later, The Penguin debuted on HBO, starring Farrell as the Penguin as he amassed power in Gotham's criminal element, with Cristin Milioti, Clancy Brown, Rhenzy Felix and Mark Strong filling out the cast.
The Penguin.Credit: Macall Polay/HBO
In August 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed the long-awaited sequel was moving forward, with filming beginning in spring 2026 ahead of its expected release the following year.
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In an interview months prior in March 2025, Pattinson poked fun at the years of postponements The Batman 2 had already experienced.
When Hero Magazine asked at the time if he would be returning to his superhero role, Pattinson responded, "I f---ing hope so. I started out as young Batman and I'm going to be f---ing old Batman by the sequel."
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Published: June 13, 2026 at 01:01AM on Source: MORNING MAG
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