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Penguin

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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating with Colin Farrell to play The Penguin in the Matt Reeves-directed The Batman. If the deal closes, he will round out the trio of villains going against Rob Pattinson's Caped Crusader, with Paul Dano as The Riddler and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman.

The Irish-born actor has turned in an array of performances in very different films that include Dumbo, Widows, Roman J. Israel Esq, The Lobster and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and has dialed up the intensity in a superhero villain role before when he menaced Ben Affleck's Daredevil character in the showy role of Bullseye, years ago.

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Gyro Zeppeli

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Oct 27, 2017
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I don't see that at all. Please no.

Edit: Same. I thought it read Will Ferrell as well. Still. Colin Farrell would be an awkward fit.
 

hydruxo

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Oct 25, 2017
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Now that's an out of left field choice for that character. Goddamn.

Colin is amazing in everything though so I'm down.
 

Donald Draper

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Hmmm.

Colin is usually fantastic in smaller films and pretty bland in bigger studio stuff.

Interesting choice and he is more than capable of a good performance but I dont feel strongly about this one way or the other.
 

SJRB

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Oct 28, 2017
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This is getting kinda crazy.

Also in talks: Matthew McConaughey as Two-Face, Andy Serkis as Alfred.
 

luca

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Oct 25, 2017
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Colin Farrell is probably one of the actors I like the most, he steals all the scenes he is in, so they just made me excited about Penguin who I haven't been feeling.
 

Violence Jack

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Oct 25, 2017
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Should've brought back DeVito.

I'm expecting that Joker making an appearance is going to very secret if it does happen
 

Practice?!?

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Nov 2, 2019
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Meh, wish the dude in my avatar had this role .

the best Collin Farrell has always been his subtle performances.
 

spx54

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thank god Jonah hill didn't get a role as one of the villains

this a very unexpected choice, and I'm here for it
 

NinjaScooter

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Oct 25, 2017
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He's a fucking fantastic actor, I'm sure he'd figure out how to play a fucking comic book character even if he doesn't have the traditional look a lot of fans w/o imaginations come to expect.
 

The Unsent

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Oct 25, 2017
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Matt Reeves probably knows what he's doing but I can't picture him in the role at the moment. Andy Serkis I can definitely see but maybe it's too obvious. Farrell I assoicate more with cooler or pychotic characters. I imagine the Penguin as someone uglier and who wants to be cool but isn't.
 

Strangelove_77

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Oct 25, 2017
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Can we get a quick mock-up as to how Colin Farrell would look as the Penguin? Thanks.
 

Philippo

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Oct 28, 2017
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This cast is completely bananas.

And we are slowly going towards a Long Halloween-esque the more i see the villain list, i am so so in.