‘The Penguin’ EP & Showrunner On Season 2, Subverting Gangster Trope [Podcast]

It may very well be argued that HBO put gangsters out of enterprise, or not less than we thought they did.

Wait, what the hell will we imply by that? The Sopranos was so definitive, it rose above and reimagined the good motion pictures that got here earlier than it, i.e. The Godfather and Goodfellas.

Then alongside comes HBO Max and DC’s The Penguin. Yes, it’s about Colin Farrell getting misplaced within the tubby swimsuit. However, we knew that from Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Yet, it’s Cristin Milioti’s tragic-yet-acerbic Mafia donna, Sofia Falcone, who steals the present. She’s the kind who’d don’t have any drawback placing a number of bullets into Sonny Corleone, that’s in the event that they lived in the identical universe.

On as we speak’s Crew Call, we converse with The Penguin EP and showrunner, Lauren LeFranc who reveals how she zigged from the gangster style’s zag.

“I never wrote a crime drama before,” the previous Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. producer confesses, “I knew I wanted to subvert tropes.”

“I loved that Oz was just a man.”

Her mission with Sofia was to bestow her with extra three dimensions than the comics.

“I feel some of the female characters weren’t given the richness of other male characters,” says LeFranc concerning comedian ebook dramatis personae.

“I did a spin on ‘The Hangman’ of it all, she is deemed ‘The Hangman’, but that means killing cops. I wanted to honor the comics, but I knew we weren’t trying to adapt anything.”

Rosemary Kennedy was a giant inspiration for LeFranc’s Sofia Falcone; a girl who was put in a psychological establishment and given a lobotomy. “We never heard her story,” says LeFranc.

As far as Season 2 goes, LeFranc teases, “Beyond Colin (Farrell), it depends on whether there’s a story that we can make richer than what we’ve already done.”

“I fully arced everything,” says the showrunner, who made good on her plan to maintain Penguin a restricted collection.

“I’m in the process of exploring what that would be, if there will be more.”

As far as different spinoff collection associated to The Batman, “we’re in early stages” says LeFranc.

Our chat canvasses why Milioti was the best actress for the position of Sofia and why LeFranc is submitting The Penguin‘s finale for Emmy consideration.

Earlier this yr, The Penguin and LeFranc received a WGA Award for Best Limited Series.