Young Alfred Cast for "Pennyworth" Prequel Series

Penguin · Oct 15, 2018

Yeah, I assumed this was shelved, but guess just moving behind the scenes

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...alfred-epix-batman-prequel-pennyworth-1152093

Pennyworth.

Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game, Ripper Street) has been tapped to take on the title role in the premium cable network's 10-episode scripted drama about Bruce Wayne's legendary butler Alfred Pennyworth.

The series — which is not a Gotham prequel despite hailing from showrunner Bruno Heller — revolves around Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier in his 20s, who forms a security company and goes to work with a young billionaire Thomas Wayne, who is not yet Bruce's father, in 1960s London.

Deleted member 2809 · Oct 15, 2018

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Bradbury · Oct 15, 2018

All I can think is that joke on Teen Titans Go The Movies about an Alfred movie. How the fuck this is happening

Strafer · Oct 15, 2018

Really? Alfred prequel?

Why?

Why?

SteveWinwood · Oct 15, 2018

why did a guy who owned a security company become a butler

Bradbury said:
All I can think is that joke on Teen Titans Go The Movies about an Alfred movie. How the fuck this is happening

waiting for that utility belt movie

Platy · Oct 15, 2018

So it is a Gotham prequel ? xD

Tauntaun · Oct 15, 2018

I doubt it ever gets a seasse 2...

Deleted member 11093 · Oct 15, 2018

I wonder if they'll adapt that storyline where Alfred has an affair with Martha Wayne.

Joe · Oct 15, 2018

Screw this. I wanna prequel series about Alfred's grandpa. How far back can we go?

dancingphlower · Oct 15, 2018

Ah yes, the prequel series everyone asked for.

Barrel_Roll · Oct 15, 2018

Bradbury said:
All I can think is that joke on Teen Titans Go The Movies about an Alfred movie. How the fuck this is happening

Yep.

Dalek · Oct 15, 2018

This is like when Sony wanted to make a movie about Aunt May being a spy.

Soj · Oct 15, 2018

Finally.

Show about the car when?

HellforLeather · Oct 15, 2018

sounds cool but imma wait for the Joe Chill series.

Jraphics Horse · Oct 15, 2018

Batmen Oranges: Tangerine

adj_noun · Oct 15, 2018

dancingphlower said:
Ah yes, the prequel series everyone asked for.

That'd be the Harold prequel

Soj · Oct 15, 2018

Dalek said:
This is like when Sony wanted to make a movie about Aunt May being a spy.

That was way dumber than this.

Deleted member 887 · Oct 15, 2018

DavyJonesLocker said:
I doubt it ever gets a seasse 2...

It's a 10 episode drama

Window · Oct 15, 2018

Man I wish Heller got setup with another historical fiction production instead of this.

Deleted member 9399 · Oct 15, 2018

I need a prequel series on the bust that hides the button to the batcave

Yams · Oct 15, 2018

Alfred is a badass. I'm fine with this

hotcyder · Oct 15, 2018

Time for Sexy Alfred

Deleted member 2809 · Oct 15, 2018

SteveWinwood said:
why did a guy who owned a security company become a butler

inb4 he fell in love with thomas wayne

Tauntaun · Oct 15, 2018

Boke18 said:
It's a 10 episode drama

I doubt it gets any new seasons

lazygecko · Oct 15, 2018

I love Alfred-focused stories but I don't think a youthful Alfred prequel is the way to do it.

Deleted member 2802 · Oct 15, 2018

Jraphics Horse said:
Batmen Oranges: Tangerine

Border · Oct 15, 2018

Oh god I forgot that this was happening.

An idea so bad that even the DC Universe streaming service doesn't want it.

Slayven · Oct 15, 2018

I have often wondered about the early lives of Alfred, and Jarvis

Sargerus · Oct 15, 2018

Yeah...this isn't getting past the Pilot.

Sgt. Demblant · Oct 15, 2018

Oh right, this is actually happening.

Wake me up when we're finally talking about Utility Belt: The Movie. I've got my fingers crossed for Tilda Swinton as the lead.

TheIlliterati · Oct 15, 2018

Read this as Pennywise. Disappointed.

DIE BART DIE · Oct 15, 2018

How many times I'll watch this: Nevah

Deleted member 2809 · Oct 15, 2018

Slayven said:
I have often wondered about the early lives of Alfred, and Jarvis

Agent Carter got you covered !

Deleted member 17402 · Oct 15, 2018

Haven't seen any of the DC shows but I dig the premise and the opportunity for Bruce's father to be fleshed out.

NealMcCauley · Oct 15, 2018

Pennyworth's Alfred is described as a boyishly handsome, cheerful, charming, clever young man from London. Honest, open-faced and witty, he's the kind of person people would never take for a SAS killer. Alfred doesn't know how to reconcile the kind-hearted boy he used to be with the cold, calculated killer he was forced to become. He's a man on the make, who doesn't know what to make of himself yet.

I'm giggling so hard at this.

Slayven · Oct 15, 2018

Shugga said:
Agent Carter got you covered !

Totally forgot about that, I should finish it.

Tamanon · Oct 15, 2018

I'll give it a try, but part of the appeal of Alfred has always been that he's the one that provides the age and experience.

____ · Oct 15, 2018

Watching...

Platy · Oct 15, 2018

SteveWinwood said:
why did a guy who owned a security company become a butler

In gotham it was revealed that alfred passed out drunk and wake up next to a dead body full of blood.
Thomas Wayne than appeared and said that alfred saved his life ... saving alfred from life in prison. Or something.

Amnixia · Oct 15, 2018

Shugga said:
butwhy.gif

I'll let Pink Floyd answer this one:

Bus-TEE · Oct 15, 2018

If Bruno Heller is writing this I'll check out the first episode at least.

Still seems an odd pick-up for a premium channel like Epix but alright.

manchego obfuscator · Oct 15, 2018

maybe there will at least be unintentional homoerotic overtones between Hot Young Batman's Butler and Hot Young Batman's Dad

Sweeney Swift · Oct 15, 2018

Bradbury said:
All I can think is that joke on Teen Titans Go The Movies about an Alfred movie. How the fuck this is happening

Legitimately shit like this or the Dark Universe make me appreciate MCU more. Aside from maybe the Conjuring Cinematic Universe, everyone else trying to do a cinematic universe these days has a legendary flop or falls on their face regularly, meanwhile the worst output they have is merely mediocre or average. I don't get how they do it

TP-DK · Oct 15, 2018

I'd rather watch the Aunt May movie Sony was cooking up.

geomon · Oct 15, 2018

Oh come on, nobody wants this. What's next, The Young Adventures of Harold Allnut?

Officer Big Mac · Oct 15, 2018

WB/DC is lost in the woods

LewieP · Oct 15, 2018

Joe said:
Screw this. I wanna prequel series about Alfred's grandpa. How far back can we go?

There is a TV show on air right now that features superman's great great grandfather.

TheGhost · Oct 15, 2018

I mean Alfred the character has definitely gotten a lot more interesting to me when I started watching Gotham, even if it's not entirely based on that Alfred I'm still interested. Gotham's Alfred is a bad ass.

Ponn · Oct 15, 2018

I'm positive a show about Ace the Bathound would do much better.

Pein · Oct 15, 2018

Sweeney Swift said:
Legitimately shit like this or the Dark Universe make me appreciate MCU more. Aside from maybe the Conjuring Cinematic Universe, everyone else trying to do a cinematic universe these days has a legendary flop or falls on their face regularly, meanwhile the worst output they have is merely mediocre or average. I don't get how they do it

Word? How was that inhumans show again?

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