Before Batman…there was GOTHAM.

The first look of the now confirmed TV series Gotham came via the release of the first official teaser and extended trailers last night (5th May 2014) during ’24’.

A moody and intense official trailer gives us a first glimpse in to the chaos and corruption that hangs heavy over the City of Gotham in the aftermath of Thomas and Martha Wayne’s murders. It shows a power battle developing for the dark heart and soul of Gotham with our first official look at Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) and confirms the presence of other notable characters Edward Nygma (Corey Michael Smith) and a young Ivy Pepper (Clare Foley). The Gotham City Police Department portrayed here through Jim Gordon (Ben Mckenzie) and Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue) look to be many shades of grey between black and white with a great little sequence of Jim Gordon “questioning” Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Taylor). The trailer exposes a lovely big melting pot that looks both exciting and enticing.

Roll on Autumn/Fall 2014…we can’t wait for this show.

D&J

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Bruce Timm, the maker of the much beloved “Batman: The Animated Series” and the animated features “Batman: Mask of the Phantasm” and “Batman: Return of the Joker”, has released his animated short “Strange Days” created for Batman’s 75th anniversary. The 3 minute animated short is available to view here.

“Strange Days” sees the Batman (voiced by Kevin Conroy) take on an old nemesis, Hugo Strange, and his “creation” to rescue the dame. At WonderCon Bruce Timm said when introducing the short that “I always wanted to do a straight-up period piece version of Batman set right in 1939, the year Batman was created.”

The entire short feels like the start of an old black-and-white horror film in its tone, much like the Frankenstein movies. Even the music is evocative of this 1930’s era in which Batman took his first steps to fighting crime in Gotham City.

Bruce Timm also said at WonderCon that “Strange Days is an itch that I’ve had for years that I finally got to scratch.” We are really glad he did as this is a lovely atmospheric piece of animation in tribute to The Bat.

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Gotham has its Nygma, its Edward Nygma!

Cory Michael Smith has been confirmed to play Edward Nygma (aka the Riddler) in the Fox TV series Gotham. We are looking forward to what types of riddles, puzzles, rhymes, conundrums and brainteasers he may unleash on the city of Gotham and hope he becomes a season or series regular on the TV show.

Update 12/05/2014: 

Renee Montoya (Victoria Cartagena) and Cripus Allen (Andrew Stewart-Jones) have been confirmed as series regulars for Gotham Season 1. This decision brings the show even closer to Gotham Central which, if you’ve been following our review podcasts, makes us both really happy.

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New on-set images of Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon during filming in Manhattan are captured.

With Jim Gordon are fellow Gotham P.D. detectives Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen, played by Victoria Cartagena and Andrew Stewart-Jones. Both  Montoya and Allen feature in the Ed Brubacker and Greg Rucka comic series “Gotham Central” that recently showed up on a tweet by Ben Mckenzie. The first 10 issues of “Gotham Central” will be reviewed in our next podcast in two weeks time.

In these shots, on the steps of what appears to be G.C.P.D. headquarters with all the uniformed police in the shots, it seems like Montoya and Jim are squaring up to one another until finally Allen steps in to calm the situation. What is the heated exchange about? Are accusations flying? Why does Crispus Allen step in? We can’t wait to find out!

D&J
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2nd April 2014

Great news! Gotham TV Podcast is now available on Stitcher.

To listen to our podcast show about Gotham on Stitcher click here.

Give us a rating after you’ve listened to any of the episodes and it will suggest other shows for you to discover.

You can find out more at Stitcher.com

The young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) and is parents have finally been revealed in some new on-set images, via hitflix.com and starburstmagazine.com.

What we can say from the photos is that David Mazouz looks like he is having a blast, he can be seem smiling from ear-to-ear with his on-screen parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne (played by Grayson McCouch and Brette Taylor), and the future Catwoman (Camren Bicondova). Why wouldn’t he have a grin on his face, he’s the future Batman! Some of the other images captured during filming show the tragic beginning of the young Bruce Wayne’s emotional journey that leads ultimately to the creation of the Dark Knight.

We were also treated to some new action shots of the young Selina Kyle sliding down a fire escape. Is she trying to escape from someone or is she rushing to get somewhere? We think the answer has something to do with the carton of cream tucked away in her jacket, as it appears it is feeding time for the local alley cat or cats. These are such a great collection of images and really cements the young Selina Kyle to her future persona – Catwoman.

The tone of the show is looking very stylised and brooding, with its mix of prohibition era costumes and present day setting. We can’t wait to see the more of the cast, especially Fish Mooney and maybe some unannounced villains.

D&J
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22nd March 2014

Very exciting first look images of the new Jim Gordon (Ben Mckenzie) in action whilst filming for the new Fox TV show Gotham were posted by comicbookmovie.com. The pictures show the young Jim Gordon, revolver in hand, on a chase across Gotham and firing at an unknown adversary. Who was he after? Did he catch him or her? These will become clear when the first season gets up-and-running in Autumn of this year. The pictures revealed that the new Jim Gordon, at least initially, does not have a mustache and he is not wearing his trademark glasses.

In quick succession we got more cool images, this time of Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor) on set which were also released via comicbookmovie.com. The criminal Oswald looks dapper and sophisticated with the famous bow tie and we are enjoying the sinister shades that he is wearing. Whilst we don’t see an umbrella in these images, we do see the Gotham Gazette newspaper that may contain spoilers.

If we hadn’t been treated enough to these little snippets from on-set Fox then went and released the first official photo of Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock. With his G.C.P.D. detective badge on display and his gun holstered, he perfectly personifies Gotham and looks every bit the world-weary, hard-edged partner to Jim Gordon. You teach that rookie detective some new tricks.

Another official photo was released by the Gotham Website today, our first look at Camren Bicondova as a young Selina Kyle the future Catwoman. Note the strategically placed Gotham skyline above her head…they sure look like kitty ears!

We’re certainly looking forward to more images from the show and we’ll post them here as soon as we find them. We can’t wait to see official photos of Jim Gordan and Oswald Cobblepot and how Fish Mooney and Alfred Pennyworth are going to turn out for Gotham.

What do you think of the released images. Share your thoughts on the images in the comments section below.

D&J
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21st March 2014

Fox TV has launched their official social media presence. Their website is now up and running at https://www.fox.com/gotham/

Fox have also launched their official twitter account @gotham and an official Facebook page.

We’ll be following them all so hopefully we’ll get even more updates about the show through all of these channels.

Just thought we’d share the official news with you as well.

You can hear our thoughts of about what we expect to see in the new series from the cast and production notes we’ve heard so far by listening to our Zero Year Podcasts.

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