¡¡¡Nuevo proyecto de la FOX sobre GOTHAM!!!

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- Nuevas imágenes BTS de David Mazouz con la campaña promocional de la serie en el metro de N.Y (10-09-14):



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- Descripción oficial de los episodios 1.01 y 1.02:

1.01 "Pilot": **SERIES PREMIERE**--"GOTHAM" - (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) CC-AD-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1. ¡LA HISTORIA DE ORTÍGENES COMIENZA! LUNES, 22 SEPTIEMBRE, EN FOX — GOTHAM traza el ascenso de los grandes super-villanos y vigilantes de DC Comics, revelando un capítulo completamente nuevo que nunca antes ha sido contado. Del productor/escritor Bruno Heller ("The Mentalist," "Rome") y protagonizada por Ben McKenzie ("Southland," "The O.C."), Jada Pinkett Smith ("Hawthorne," "Collateral") y Donal Logue ("Vikings," "Sons of Anarchy"), GOTHAM sigue a un policía, destinado a la gloria, a medida que navega una peligrosamente corrupta ciudad balanceándose entre el bien y el mal, y escribe la crónica del nacimiento de uno de los más populares super-héroes de nuestro tiempo en la Series Premiere de GOTHAM. Estrellas invitadas: Richard Kind como el 'Mayor Aubrey James', Drew Powell como 'Butch Gilzean'. Dirigido por Danny Cannon con guión de Bruno Heller.


1.02 "Selina Kyle": (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) GORDON Y BULLOCK INVESTIGAN UNA RED DE TRÁFICO DE NIÑOS EL LUNES, 29 de SEPTIEBRE, EN FOX — Los detectives Gordon y Bullock investigan una red de tráfico de niños que toman como objetivos los niños de la calle de Gotham, incluída Selina Kyle (Camren Bicondova). Mientras tanto, el Pingüino (Robin Lord Taylor) resurge en el campo y empieza a construir su camino de vuelta a GOTHAM, dejando a su paso una serie de víctimas durante su despertar. Estrellas invitadas: Carol Kane como 'Gertrud Kapelput', Frank Whaley como 'Doug', Lili Taylor como 'Patti', Richard Kind como el 'Mayor Aubrey James', Drew Powell como 'Butch Gilzean', Kyle Massey como 'Macky'.



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- Gotham - Spotlight on Detective Harvey Bullock (IGN):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCdqjSqPeWo



- GOTHAM | Detective James Gordon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8VMIYi78M

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- Video-entrevista de Donald Logue en "USA Today" (08-09-14):

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- Ben McKenzie "Late Night with Seth Meyers" Interview (10-09-14):

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- Primeras stills del 1.02 con la madre del Pingüino, 'Gertrud Kapelput':




- Primeros detalles del episodio 1.03:

Ya tenemos los primeros detalles del episodio 1.03 de "Gotham" gracias a la preview del número del Fall Preview de "Entertainment Weekly".

El villano de este episodio es “Balloon Man,” que es descrito como “un asesino que ata a las víctimas a cientos de globos y los manda hacia lo alto.”

“El crimen es grande, extraño y excéntrico y con frecuencia tiene mucho humor negro en él,” comenta Ben McKenzie a la revista.

El número ya está a la venta.

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- El reboot de Christopher Nolan de Batman ayudó a que ‘Gotham’ fuera posible (batman-news):

El reboot de Christopher Nolan de Batman ayudó a que ‘Gotham’ fuera posible
Por Sean Buckley 13 Septiembre, 2014

I recently participated in a conference call discussion with Bruno Heller, executive producer and writer for FOX’s Gotham. A number of other media outlets were invited to join, and each of us were given roughly two questions to ask. Heller shared his views on not only the Gotham premiere, but the show’s background and what fans can look forward to in the first season. He even attributed Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy to paving the way for shows like Gotham. Check out highlights from the conference call below.

Batman News: Shows like “Arrow” and “Smallville” have proven that mainstream superhero shows can be successful ventures. How have those shows had an impact on the production and development of “Gotham?” Would a show like “Gotham” even be possible say ten or fifteen years ago?

Oh, that’s a good deep question. Yes, I would say. Both the shows you mentioned are Warner Bros. shows, and the DC Universe is now very much a part of Warner Bros. culture. I’ve been talking with DC for many years before we got to this point and landed on “Gotham”. I think you’re probably right, ten years ago it wouldn’t be possible and I think that’s a combination of the brilliance of what the Nolans did to revivify the Batman franchise and also the shows you mentioned. […] I would say that the difference between those shows and this is that those were cable shows and this is network, and there are slightly different demands there. The analogy would be those are arena shows and this has to be a stadium show and we have to appeal to an even larger audience. So it has to appeal to both people who love Batman and love Gotham and love that world, and also people who have no particular love for the world and you just have to grab on the strength of the story and the characters.

Batman News: Warner Bros. and Netflix recently agreed to exclusive streaming right for “Gotham.” Is direct-to-subscription television an inevitability? How do you see this effecting big projects like “Gotham” in the future?

Well I’m the last person to ask about business because what I can’t control I don’t worry about or get too deep into. All of these new outlets and various deals that can be made to back a project can only help in terms of creating larger and more ambitious TV events. That’s the way it’s going, you have to break through, you have to invest a whole lot more money and a whole lot more of your resources to make things pop out of that vast landscape that now exists for TV. The Netflix deal is part of that movement, it allows for creative people to take more chances and to use a broader canvas just to start with.


Here are some more highlights from the conference call:

I know there was a very conscious effort to put so many characters in the pilot and I think that it’s been generally positive, but some may not be so sure about that [decision]. I was wondering if you could tell us about the process behind that and in future episode will it be more of a “villain of the week” or tell us the plan for the future as well?

Obviously the demands of opening big means that we’ve front-loaded with lots of characters and fun just to indicate where we’re going, as the show rolls on it won’t be a villain per week simply because these are such great villains and their storylines are so big and epic it would be shortchanging everyone if we did it in that production line sort of way. So there are a lot of big characters in that first episode, but sort of as it rolls on other characters will be introduced in a much more measured sort of way.

What I’m really interested in is the city of Gotham itself on the show. The show is called “Gotham” and I was wondering how much the city itself really shapes the story you’re telling.

Very much so. It’s an urban story, it’s about city life, and I think Gotham is a dream world that everybody shares in their own mind. Everyone has a vision of Gotham in their minds, so you really have to create a three-dimensional world that is both believable and just a notch above reality that has that fantastic element. Both me and Danny Cannon, the director, settled on New York in the [1970s] when it was a really gnarly and dark but very sexy and attractive and charismatic place. That’s the seed of the city is that, old New York…and Danny and his crew did such an amazing job creating the believable but fantastical world and what that allows us to do is for the actors in that city to be a notch up. It is both real and slightly surreal. So yeah, Gotham is a central character, we just don’t call [the show] “Gotham.”

I was wondering if as a prequel series and origin story, what you looked at for drawing inspiration from for the series if people are used to seeing Bruce Wayne as the Dark Knight and not his younger self and a lot of it is focused on Jim Gordon and Gotham as a whole.

Well to me, the immediate attraction of this story was precisely the chance to tell origin stories. Those are always the aspects of the superhero legends that I enjoy most, and it ties into how things got the way they are. This is a world that everybody knows. Everybody knows who Batman is, who The Riddler is, who The Joker is, though telling their fully-fledged stories is not been-there-done-that, but it’s hard to find a fresh way in. This way, you get to learn how things got to be the way they are, and that, for me, is one of the great gifts of good narrative. It’s like finding old pictures of your parents from before you were born. There’s something intrinsically fascinating about that period, the period before what we know and that’s really the feeling we were going for.

You do some very interesting spins on some well-known characters, especially The Penguin, who stood out as unusually vicious even for that character. When you were developing the show, how much did you decide to stick with the comics compared to taking your own way with those characters?

It’s a tricky balance, because you obviously don’t want to simply create a new character, you have to create a character that you recognize as that iconic character who you recognize and they have to have their iconic characteristics. On the other hand, if we just deliver a character people have seen before then we’re failing the audience. The Batman world is such a vast world full of so many great iterations of these characters that you can’t simply take those elements and regurgitate them, you have to give the audience a fresh look. For me, with Penguin it was important to be true to the psychology of that kind of person. With the graphic novel version of the character as opposed to the comic version, I wouldn’t say he’s more comedic…but it seemed to me that that kind of person has to have some elements of ferocity. There’s also a certain amount of charm so, you know, this is Penguin as a young man who’s still striving and struggling and hungry, so he’s going to be a very different man than the when he’s stable and already reached his goals. Right now he’s a more hungry, violent, scrabbling character, but he must have been in order to get where he got to. In general, it’s important even if some of the audience goes “that’s not my idea of that character,” a little friction and controversy isn’t a bad thing. We’ve been talking to Geoff John’s a DC to make sure we’re not betraying the essence of who these people are, because that would be pointless. We wouldn’t change up the character for shock value. Our agreement is to deliver something new and interesting, which involves taking chances every now and again.

That was just a brief transcript, you can listen to full audio of Bruno Heller’s answers to Batman News’ questions in the player below:

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- Robin Lord Taylor Redefine al Pingüino en "Gotham" (CBR):

Robin Lord Taylor Redefine al Pingüino en "Gotham"
Por Bryan Cairns, 15 Septiembre 2014

Gotham City may have given birth to Batman, but it's also the spawning grounds of most of his deadliest enemies. This fall, Fox's "Gotham" plans to explore the origins of the city's good guys, as well as its most notorious villains.

Premiering on September 22, the show follows rookie detective James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and his partner, Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue), as they investigate the murder of young Bruce Wayne's billionaire parents. Along the way, the two men must contend with organized crime and a host of shady individuals destined to one day become Batman's nemeses: Catwoman, The Riddler, Poison Ivy and The Penguin.

Robin Lord Taylor, who plays the emotionally-disturbed Oswald Cobblepot -- the man destined to become The Penguin -- spoke to press during roundtable interviews at Comic-Con International in San Diego. The enthusiastic actor discussed comic books, the Cobblepot family name and teaming up with Batman's other foes.

Did you read specific comic books or watch TV shows to help immerse yourself in this character?

Robin Lord Taylor: Yeah, I keep forgetting the names. This is annoying. There are a couple of comics that I found that actually specifically pinpoint his origin story. It is the actual origin story of The Penguin. The [1989] "Secret Origins Special." That’s what it is. That was fascinating because they go into his childhood and growing up as a privileged kid, but with not a lot of love, and in a prep school where he was bullied for being autistic and different. I found that to be incredibly valuable and also depressing. It’s an issue we all face and deal with.

But just getting into the comics, how rare is it to play a character when you have 75 years of material, this incredible backlog? It’s just an amazing gift. It’s been an invaluable resource to go back and read and see where he's going. Even the fact that there are origin stories in the catalog that take place before we come in has been really cool.

Carol Kane is playing [Oswald's] mother, Gertrud Kapelput, in the show. Does Oswald change his name [to Cobblepot]?

I don't know what I can talk about too much. His mother is still in Gotham City. We're not quite sure where the Dad is. That’s what I am really looking forward to, is fleshing out where they are going with that story. We could take different roads. Through 75 years, you are going to have some inconsistencies. I'm just fascinated to see what direction they choose. There is a different spelling to her name. She has almost an aristocratic background. Their names are spelled differently. At some point, Oswald has taken it upon himself to distance himself from his family name.

Can you hint at what sets Oswald down the path he goes on? Does he interact with the other villains?

That's what I'm most excited about. Everybody is like, “This first season is all about The Penguin." I'm like, "I want the others to get going." The clash of those personalities is going to be so much fun. I’m so stoked for that to start.

[Oswald] starts the show in a very low status. It’s almost like his quarter-life crisis, where he’s trying to assert himself, make that transition from young adulthood to actual adulthood, and be a person of power. He goes about it completely the wrong way and it all falls apart. In that, he learns his true desire and lust for power and he will not let anything stop him. It's his failures that actually motivate him to go after what he wants, which is Gotham City.

Does he pick up the iconic umbrella in the pilot?

I don't know if you’ve seen the trailer, but you may see an umbrella poking around. That’s been the fun thing. Just the fact they are teasing out these little bits of the character. You start to see where those come from. People watching can be like, "The umbrella." Or maybe down the line, it’ll be "There’s the monocle. That’s where that comes from." It’s really cool to connect the dots, looking for clues. I think it’s going to be fun for everyone.

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- Ben McKenzie adelanta el 'rápido y brutal' mundo de 'Gotham' (EW):

Ben McKenzie adelanta el 'rápido y brutal' mundo de 'Gotham'
Por Samantha Highfill on Sep 15, 2014 at 11:51AM

In today’s world of comic-book remakes, it’s rare that an actor gets to portray multiple characters within any given universe. It’s even more rare that an actor gets to take part in a story that hasn’t been told before. But Ben McKenzie has done both.

In 2011, McKenzie got the chance to voice an animated Bruce Wayne in Batman: Year One, and three years later, he’s playing a young James Gordon in Fox’s upcoming series, Gotham. And despite the fact that Gotham is a prequel and therefore telling a new story, McKenzie is very aware of the “high bar” that exists for his character. But thankfully, McKenzie wasn’t asked to do what Gary Oldman did in Christopher Nolan’s films or what Bryan Cranston did in Year One. Instead, when McKenzie went to lunch with DC Comics chief creative officer Geoff Johns, they talked about McKenzie’s responsibility to the character, part of which was making Gordon “fresh.” So the next question was: How does one do that?

“The way that they talked about it with me is that Gotham is on this knife’s edge and it’s going to fall apart,” McKenzie tells EW. “It’s falling apart because society in general is falling apart. Society’s fallen so much that everybody feels as though they must participate in the morally collapsed society. All the cops are on the take; the judges are on the take; everybody is a part of this thing. And so James, who grew up in the city but then left when his father died, comes at it from the tried-and-true device but [with] fresh eyes. He served overseas; he was in a war. And he comes back and he’s got a real moral rigidity to him, which is tested immediately and tested deeply.”

But in playing a younger Gordon, McKenzie has had to find the balance between the smart cop fans will recognize and the rookie who isn’t necessarily ready to take on some of these super villains. So how did he balance being the strong hero and the struggling hero? “I think every hero ought to try to fit the age in which they live, and in this case, with a lot of people looking at a lot of the overt greed and corruption, and then the subtle greed and corruption that surrounds us, people want somebody who is both upright and morally firm but also not a dope,” he says. “[Someone who's] able to see what’s going on. So to me, [Gordon] ought to be more like a classic noir detective, smart but still playing catch-up, always trying to understand what’s really going on, and what’s really going on is not what appears to be going on.”

Aside from the freedom that comes with knowing that this story has never been told before, McKenzie has talked about the additional freedom that comes with knowing his character’s ending. Well, more or less. “When we say we know the ending, what do we really know? We know that there’s this guy eventually there will be this thing called The Batman and there will be these villains that The Batman is fighting, and that’s why Bruce becomes The Batman, and there will be this Commissioner Gordon who’s in charge of the police force, but outside of that, outside of some sort of a rudimentary fact, we don’t really know anything,” he says. “We definitely don’t know how they got there.”

And for James Gordon, getting there won’t be easy. “Conversations that I’ve always had with [showrunner] Bruno [Heller] and [executive producer] Danny [Cannon] are: This guy’s going to get really beat up by this town and not just physically but emotionally and psychologically. He’s going to be making a lot of decisions. He’s going to find himself in places very, very quickly from the pilot alone to where there is no morally correct answer. Either choice is bad, so he has to choose between two bad options and then he has to live with those consequences and then he has to keep going. He has to work through the system to try to change it, which inevitably takes a toll on his soul. So I hope he’ll be this great sort of conflicted hero.”

The very idea of a prequel will more than likely leave some viewers feeling a bit conflicted on their own, because, as McKenzie puts it, origin stories “innately humanize” those involved, particularly the villains fans know so well. By seeing how these villains found their way to the dark side, viewers might find themselves empathizing with the “bad guys.”

“Particularly for the really young cast—like Bruce, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy and more to come—they’re kids,” McKenzie says. “They’re genuinely kids, and I think that’s such a fascinating place to start a story because they could go either way, and you see, some of the kids will obviously choose the quote-unquote correct path and become heroes but will suffer burdens because of that, and some will choose to become villains and be burdened by that and also freed by that, so even which side you choose doesn’t necessarily mean your life is all champagne and roses.”

But in a world full of more and more superhero shows, how will Gotham compare to shows like Arrow when it comes to balancing the characters’ stories with action sequences? “I would say it’s much more character-driven,” McKenzie says. “There’s certainly quite a bit of action, and there will be week to week. Stylistically, it’s much more noir than action-adventure. The violence is real and shocking, as opposed to massively operatic and coordinated within an inch of its life. This is more swift and brutal and hopefully kind of shocking. We don’t dwell on it.

“At the same time,” he continues, “in the pilot alone, there’s a rooftop chase scene, which is a lot of fun. There’ll be definitely be some action, and I’ll be doing some of that.”

Just because Gordon is the brave man looking to save his city, however, doesn’t mean he’s capable of winning every fight. “I guess what I should say is he’s not a superhero like Arrow is or any of them—Flash, whoever—so he can’t just do whatever his power is. In a fight scene he can’t just pull out the magic whatever and use it. He’s a man, so he loses a lot. He gets his ass kicked a lot,” McKenzie says with a laugh, and adds, “which I can definitely play.”

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- The Future of Superman + Zack Snyder's Batmobile + Gotham´s Selina Kyle (DCAA 225):

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- GOTHAM | "Clean Up" Trailer The Series Premiere Is Almost Here!:

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- GOTHAM | "A Tall Order For Jim Gordon":

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- Escritor de Gotham y productor listo para hacer 'cualquier' villano de Batman (femalefirst):

Escritor de Gotham y productor listo para hacer 'cualquier' villano de Batman
por Daniel Falconer | 17 Septiembre 2014

During a media conference call, executive producer and writer of Gotham Bruno Heller confirmed that there's no limit to the amount of villains which could be explored throughout the series.

"The simple answer is: No. We're ready to go with any of them" he said.

"We haven't excluded anyone from the mix potentially, but generally what we're looking at is characters where there is some drama or a story behind how they got to be the way they are".

"We're looking for characters who live in the real world of Gotham as opposed to the even more super real world of Metropolis if you like. It's not about super powers, it's about super will, if you like. We veer towards those characters who are interesting as people, rather than interesting for their particular power or their particular gimmick or their costume."

Hinting that though we may not see every favourite on screen because of the difficulties in adapting them, he noted there's always a chance for any bad guy to turn up.

"There are certainly characters that would be very difficult to put on the screen. That crocodile guy [Killer Croc] is a tough one - although we may go there" he explained.

Already confirmed for the Gotham lineup are Selina Kyle, Edward Nygma and Oswald Cobblepot, as well as Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze.

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- David Mazouz habla sobre Bruce Wayne, el más querido Batman & más (tvfanatic):

David Mazouz habla sobre Bruce Wayne, el más querido Batman & más
Por Sean McKenna 17 Septiembre, 2014 4:30 pm.

Ready to witness the origin stories of some of the most famous characters from Gotham?

Then prepare yourself for the likes of the Penguin, of Jim Gordon, and yes, a young Bruce Wayne.

I recently spoke on the phone with actor David Mazouz - who is playing the 12-year old Wayne - about portraying the character, filming an iconic moment in Batman mythology for the show and even his favorite version of Batman.

Read on for excerpts from the Q and A...

How exciting is it to be playing an iconic character in Bruce Wayne?

It’s the role of a lifetime. Every time I think about it, I get excited. It’s just a fun and interesting role to play. It’s not just the fact that it’s such an iconic role, he’s also really interesting. It’s getting to see the journey that he goes through, the stuff he starts to become obsessed with, and the different things he encounters in the first season.

What was the auditioning process like?

I met with Bruno Heller, our brilliant creator, and the casting directors, and I had the audition. But I waited two weeks and didn’t hear anything about it. And then I came in, I think I did four tests in one week. The last test they actually cut my hair, so there were whole mounds of hair on the floor. They also wanted me to come in Bruce Wayne clothes, and it was really cool. It got me in the mood to really get into the character.

When I found out I got [the part], I was in a public place, and my mom actually found out the day before I found out. She didn’t want to tell me that day because it was my sister’s birthday, so I thought that was cool. But the day after, my agents told me, and it was one of the best feelings of my life.

A major moment in the Batman story is the death of Bruce Wayne’s parents. Can you talk about filming that scene for Gotham?

That was probably my favorite scene. A lot of people have been asking me where I draw my inspiration from, how do I scream like that and hit that kind of emotion in that scene. I think that’s an actor’s job, to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes.

I was asked if I had anybody that died who was close to me, my grandma died, but before that, I said my goldfish. But yeah, it was just a really fun scene to shoot.

How many times did you have to do that scream?

It didn’t take forever to shoot that scene, but I think I did it maybe six times, the scream. It was nothing. I scream a lot.

Do you know if by the end of Gotham Season 1 we will find out the identity of the killer?

Every episode there will be a case. And the case in the pilot episode is the murder of Bruce Wayne’s parents. But I think that case will drag out throughout the season, and maybe throughout the series, but no one really knows. I don’t know. It’s not really solved in the pilot, and you’ll see more of it throughout the show.

With this being a pre-Batman show, what kind of capacity will we see Bruce Wayne on Gotham?

Right, he’s not Batman. The show really revolves around Jim Gordon and his work and the cases he has. Also a good deal of the show follows Penguin’s rise to power. Bruce Wayne, you will see him go through different levels. He’s not in it a ton, but you will see him experience different things and go through stages of the grieving process in his unique sort of way.

I’d say in the second episode he starts to create an obsession, and he is searching for any meaning into his parents’ death. He just wants to find some reason behind this terrible tragedy. He has post-traumatic stress disorder and he’s scared, lonely, angry at the world, and he takes some of that anger out on Alfred, played by Sean Pertwee, who we had some amazing scenes together. He’s great, and I worked with him the most.

Do you have a favorite version of Batman?

I mean, I grew up with the Christian Bale ones, so that’s kind of my time frame. I don’t necessarily have a favorite, I like them all in their own way. I think the Christian Bale ones I draw inspiration from the most. The ones before, the Michael Keaton ones and Adam West, the Adam West especially, its more campy, it’s more fun. We didn’t really see that dark side until Christian Bale came along. And so he’s going to be dark in Gotham for sure, so that’s the approach [my] Bruce Wayne will be taking in the show.

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- A Bruno Heller le encanta contar historias de orígenes (CBR):

A Bruno Heller le encanta contar historias de orígenes
Por Scott Huver, 18 Septiembre 2014

With just a few days left before TV audiences make their first visit to Fox's "Gotham" and its pre-Batman world of lone hero cops, corrupt officials and psychotic bad guys to be, creator and executive producer Bruno Heller shedd a few more glimmers of light into Gotham City's back alleys.

In advance of the September 22 premiere of the show -- which was deemed the most promising new series of 2104 in a Television Critics Association poll -- Heller took to a conference call to discuss the long-term vision for "Gotham," including addressing a nagging concern about the pilot -- which focuses on Det. James Gordon's (Ben McKenzie) crusade to clean up the city in the wake of the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne -- feeling somewhat overloaded with the proto-versions of familiar Bat-baddies despite also delivering a stylish and compelling entry point into the TV version of Bruce Wayne's dark and dangerous home town.

On striking the right balance among the large cast of characters poised to become members of Batman's infamous rogues gallery:

Bruno Heller: Obviously, the demands of opening big mean that we will frontload it with lots of characters in front, just to indicate where we're going. As the show rolls on, it won't be villain-of-the-week simply, because these are such great villains and their storylines are so big and epic that it would be short-changing everyone if we did it in that sort of production line way. So there are a lot of big characters in that first episode, but as it rolls on, other iconic characters will be introduced, but in a much more measured way, if you like.

On the role of the city itself in "Gotham":

It's an urban story, it's about city life. I think often it's kind of a dream world that everybody shares. Everyone has a vision of Gotham in their mind, so you really have to create a three-dimensional, believable world that is both believable but a notch above reality, that has that fantastic element. Both me and Danny Cannon, the director, had kind of seminal moments in New York in the '70s when it was a really gnarly, dark, but very sexy and attractive, charismatic place. So that's the seed of the city is that old New York. Danny and his crew did such an amazing job creating a believable but fantastic world. What that allows us to do is it allows the actors inside that city to be a notch up. It's both real but slightly surreal, and that means you have a broad and powerful canvas to work off of. So Gotham is a central character. It's not an accident we call it "Gotham."

On the essential lure of working on the show:

To me, the immediate attraction of this story was precisely the chance to tell origin stories. Those are always the aspects of the superhero legends that I enjoy most. It ties into a kind of childlike curiosity of how did things get the way they are? It's just the "Just So Stories," Rudyard Kipling, "How Did the Leopard Get its Spots?" This is a world that everyone knows: everyone knows who Batman is, everyone knows who the Riddler is and who the Joker is, so telling their fully fledged, adult stories -- it's not been-there-done-that, but it's tough to find a fresh way in. This way, you get to learn how things got to be the way they are, and that, to me, is one of the great gifts of good narrative. It's like seeing pictures of your parents before you were born. There's something intrinsically fascinating about that period before the period we know, and that's really the feeling we were going for.

On the projects that paved the way for "Gotham's" attempt at reinvention:

I'd been talking with DC for many years before we got to this point and landed on "Gotham." It wouldn't be possible, and I think that's a combination of the brilliance of what the Nolans did to revivify the Batman franchise and also the shows [like "Smallville" and "Arrow"]. People could see that there's both an audience and a way of convincingly doing that larger than life world on the small screen. I would say that the difference, to a degree, between those shows and this show is those were cable shows, this is network, and there are slightly different demands, there. The analogy would be those are arena shows and this has to be a stadium show and has to appeal to an even larger audience. So it has to appeal to both people who love Batman and love Gotham and love that world and also people who have no particular love for the world and you just have to grab them on the strength of the story and the characters. But yes, absolutely, all of those -- one of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is there is a kind of institutional culture and institutional memory, both in terms of production design, camera work, directors who understand how to do this kind of thing. So it's very much within the parameters of the wheelhouse -- that's definitely a mixed metaphor, but you get my point. Absolutely, we're in the middle of, just like in the '50s it was a Western cycle, we're in the thick of a superhero cycle here.

On exploring fresh, sometime controversial new ground with well-known characters like The Penguin:

It's a tricky balance, because obviously you don't want to simply create a new character. You have to create a character that is that iconic character and you recognize who that is, and they have to have their iconic characteristics. But on the other hand, if we just deliver the character that people have seen before, than we're failing the audience. The Batman world is such a vast world full of so many great iterations of these characters that you can't simply take those elements and regurgitate them. You have to give the audience a fresh look. For me, with Penguin, it was important to be true to the psychology of that kind of person -- the sort of graphic novel version of the character, as opposed to a comic book version of the character. In comic books, I wouldn't say he's more comedic, but it's hard to distill it down to an essence -- there's also a certain amount of charm. Also, this is Penguin as a young man, striving and struggling and hungry. That's going to be a very different character from who he is [indiscernible] and has reached his goals in life. Right now, he's that hungry, violent, scrabbling character that he must have been to get where he got to. In general, like I say, it's important, even if some of the audience goes "That's not my idea of that character," well at least a little friction and a little controversy in those terms is not a bad thing. All I can promise is we work very closely with Geoff Johns at DC to make sure we're not betraying the essence of who these people are, because that would be pointless. We're never going to sort of change up the characters simply for the shock value of changing them. It's just our [task] is to deliver something new and interesting, and that involves taking chances now and again.

On the show's distinctive take on Alfred Pennyworth:

I wouldn't say he's the bad father, but he's certainly the permissive father, the enabling father -- as opposed to Gordon, who represents the law. What Sean Pertwee brings to it is a kind of avuncular strength, but also a sense of irony and a sense that he has strength and power. In order for Bruce to turn into Batman, Alfred had to be an enabler there. Bruce could not have done this in secret; at some point they made a pact, whether an unspoken or a spoken pact, that this was going to be allowed. So you had to have an actor with an edge of danger to him, who was not simply the good, loyal caretaker, but also someone with his own sense of rage inside him. Someone who could carry that, but lightly, and that's what Sean does so brilliantly. And to me, that's who Alfred was -- which is what Michael Caine used to play [in Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy]. I'm not sure that it is such a leap from the previous characters. It's a leap from the very old style of Alfred where he's kind of much more the English butler than the soldier. We went for a dynamic character who can carry his own stories, who is a genuine, positive, dynamic influence in Bruce's life, and that requires an actor with great charisma and strength and also, underneath, you have to feel that he loves and cares for this kid. So it's a very tricky line he's walking, there, but he's walking it brilliantly.

On the process of laying out the paths that will lead the various villainous characters toward their dark destinies:

The main challenge there is reverse engineering enough that we have a journey to take, without destroying all of the iconic elements of the characters that people know and love. But at the same time, you want that journey to be as long and as interesting as possible, so we can't start with the fully-fledged characters, even if we wanted to. There's a whole bunch of history that has to happen before those characters emerge in all their finery. For me, that's a big part of the fun of the show, both making it and watching it, I hope, is seeing these people as young people and seeing how they're going to change over time and giving them space to grow. It's hard to describe in simple terms how that works. A lot of the challenge with TV as opposed to making movies is that you have to leave room for the characters in the story to tell themselves. Sometimes you don't know where a character is going to go and what's going to happen to them until you've seen the actor take that part and make it their own. Then, you know, sort of like novelists say the book starts to write itself, the characters start to tell their own story, and then we know where they're going as opposed to mapping it out step by step. We have broad, general [parameters], but you've got to leave space for these characters to live and breathe, you know.

On the Bat-elements he thinks "Gotham" will do best to avoid and embrace:

There are certain characters that would be very, very difficult to put on the screen. That crocodile guy [Killer Croc] is a tough one -- although we may go there. We haven't excluded anyone from the mix, potentially. But generally what we're looking at is characters where there is some drama or a story behind how they got to be the way they are, and we're looking for characters who can live in the real world of Gotham, as opposed to the even more super-real world of Metropolis, if you like. It's not about superpowers; it's about super-will, if you like. So we have veered towards those characters who are interesting as people rather than interesting for their particular power or their particular gimmick or their costume. So that's how I would divide that world. But the simple answer is we're ready to go with any of them.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=55606

- Bruno Heller adelanta la nueva serie de la FOX 'GOTHAM' (Ksitetv):

Bruno Heller adelanta la nueva serie de la FOX 'GOTHAM'
Por Craig Byrne, 18 Septiembre, 2014

DC Comics' world of Batman is explored in the new FOX series Gotham, which premieres this Monday, September 22.

While a young Bruce Wayne is a part of the series, the focus is mostly on the Gotham Police Department and the villains that make up that world, in a time before they are the icons that they become. Characters like the Penguin, Catwoman, the Riddler, and even Poison Ivy are seen in younger forms. One talk show host has referred to it as "Muppet Babies meets Batman," and it's not that far off, except this is played seriously as a cop drama that happens to take place in a world with fantastical foes.

Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller participated in a conference call last week to promote the show. To begin, he spoke about the "urban story" that makes up the series.

"It’s an urban story, it’s about city life," Heller explained. "I think often it’s kind of a dream world that everybody shares. Everyone has a vision of Gotham in their mind, so you really have to create a three-dimensional, believable world that is both believable but a notch above reality, that has that fantastic element. Both me and Danny Cannon, the director, had kind of seminal moments in New York in the ‘70s when it was a really gnarly, dark, but very sexy and attractive, charismatic place. So that’s the seed of the city is that old New York."

"Danny and his crew did such an amazing job creating a believable but fantastic world," he continued. "What that allows us to do is it allows the actors inside that city to be a notch up. It’s both real but slightly surreal, and that means you have a broad and powerful canvas to work off of. So Gotham is a central character. It’s not an accident we call it Gotham," he said.

Heller is also excited to explore the origin aspects to the characters. "To me, the immediate attraction of this story was precisely the chance to tell origin stories. Those are always the aspects of the superhero legends that I enjoy most. It ties into a kind of childlike curiosity of how did things get the way they are? It’s just the Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling, How Did the Leopard Get its Spots?"

"This is a world that everyone knows," he explained. "Everyone knows who Batman is, everyone knows who the Riddler is and who the Joker is, so telling their fully fledged, adult stories is kind of – it’s not been-there-done-that, but it’s tough to find a fresh way in. This way, you get to learn how things go to be the way they are, and that, to me, is one of the great gifts of good narrative. It’s like seeing pictures of your parents before you were born. There’s something intrinsically fascinating about that period before the period we know, and that’s really the feeling we were going for."

Are there characters or elements from the Batman or DC Universes that Heller might avoid putting on Gotham? "There are certain characters that would be very, very difficult to put on the screen. That crocodile guy is a tough one – although we may go there," he admitted. "We haven’t excluded anyone from the mix, potentially. But generally what we’re looking at is characters where there is some drama or a story behind how they got to be the way they are, and we’re looking for characters who can live in the real world of Gotham as opposed to the even more super-real world of Metropolis, if you like. It’s not about super powers; it’s about super will, if you like. So we have veered towards those characters who are interesting as people rather than interesting for their particular power or their particular gimmick or their costume. So that’s how I would divide that world."

"But the simple answer is no," he continued. "We’re ready to go with any of them."

http://www.ksitetv.com/interviews-2/got ... ries/39578

- El Enigma sobre las teorías de los villanos de 'Gotham' y el ponerse verde (EW):

El Enigma sobre las teorías de los villanos de 'Gotham' y el ponerse verde
Por Marc Snetiker el 18 de Septiembre, 2014 12:53PM

The first season of Fox’s ambitious new comic-book drama Gotham is all about the Penguin’s rise to power, but there’s another would-be villain lurking in the shadows. Cory Michael Smith plays Ed Nygma, the man who will become Gotham City’s quiz-happy Riddler… eventually.

For now, Ed’s a forensic scientist working with Gotham PD, which adds a twist of intrigue to his inevitable transformation into villainy. On the show’s Brooklyn set, EW sat down with Smith to get a hint of what we can expect from his Riddler.

EW: How do other Riddlers come into play for your interpretation?
CORY MICHAEL SMITH: Well, there’s Frank Gorshin, of course, whose performance was lauded. I’ve seen clips of him and his work, and I have great respect for his contribution to that show and how celebrated it is, but I certainly haven’t watched enough that it would actually impact the choices I make. And I never watched Batman Forever so I haven’t seen Jim Carrey’s performance.

No way. You never saw Carrey as the Riddler?
The thing is, he’s one of my idols! I love him, I think he’s brilliant, and as a kid he was a huge reason why I wanted to be an actor. But I’ve never seen Batman Forever. And I think it was really just the universe telling me not to watch it because this is my fate. [Laughs] I’m essentially paying most attention to the comics.

Are all the actors on Gotham frequently turning back to the comics?
I think a lot of people are. I certainly am. I’m not obsessing over them, but I’m letting them inform my work. But the thing is, this is a unique way of telling Batman and I’m trusting Bruno [Heller] and our producers and everybody in the cast. Our writers have a trajectory for us. They’re going to make choices that might contradict someone’s idea of the mythology of the Riddler, but this is the show that I’m doing and this is the person that I’m creating. The thing about the comics, too, is they span such a vast period of time that they kind of contradict each other a lot. You see a comic and you’re like, “Oh wow, the Riddler has been drawn this way and he’s been drawn that way.” There are tons of looks and his personality changes based on who’s writing them. So to me, some people might have a favorite version of the Riddler—this is just the Riddler that I’m doing.

What are Ed’s ambitions? What’s his trajectory?
I think you’re dealing with someone that knows that he’s the smartest person in the room and knows he’s brilliant and has great contributions, and feels that he could just run the f–king show. Sometimes it’s very frustrating when he’s not allowed to do things, and we’ll see him start to get more leeway and his superiors will start to recognize his genius in giving him other responsibilities. I think Ed just wants to be a part of stuff. He wants to show off his knowledge. He wants to help. He has answers. And he has answers before everyone else, so that’s why he asks questions—he challenges other people, like, ‘Figure this out.’

You definitely seem to have a “Riddler voice,” if you will. What’s the approach there?
As he gains power and as he gets a little bit older and more secure and adventurous, it’ll change, as it does with every human. The more comfortable and powerful you are, your voice starts to drop. I want to make sure that Ed is starting far away from where he’s going to go. So it’s a very playful voice. It’s in my tenor.

The first season reflects the Penguin’s rise to villainy, but how much of the Riddler’s evolution will we see?
I’m going to be in the police department for a while. These crazy crimes are happening in Gotham—slightly theatrical and awesome and very much honoring the adventurousness of the comic books. Everyone else is taking it so seriously because they’re the police and they want to solve the crime, but Ed’s kind of getting caught up in how cool this s–t is. I mean, some of these crimes are just fascinating. Just fascinating. And that’s what Ed loves.

So his trajectory seems to be this combination of nobody recognizing his genius and a fascination with the macabre. So it’s the story of an undervalued employee…
Yeah. An underappreciated, mistreated, misunderstood guy. And adding in to all that mix, here’s a guy with some social disorder. He’s not necessarily equipped with the interpersonal skills that would lead to calm workplace environment interaction.

What about his family life?
I hope he’s not married or else this fool doesn’t wear a ring and she’d be pissed. [Laughs] The thing about origin stories is that family is actually very important, and I think we’re going to see everyone’s family, or lack thereof. I don’t know what’s a bigger influence on anyone’s life. So I think we’re going to check in with everybody—where they come from, who is around them, their influences. In the comics, they do reflect back on Ed’s relationship with his father in particular, so I hope that that’s honored in the series.

Are there questions you’ve asked about the Riddler that only you and Bruno know?
I certainly haven’t made definitive requests. I have a vague idea of where they want to go, and I know certain things that help me. But not a lot of specifics. It’s kind of fun not knowing. This, for me, is the difference between doing theatre/film and doing television. You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you’re constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don’t, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying, and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back. “Oh, f–k, I wish I would have known that!”

The Penguin has his iconic style. Is the Riddler’s green going to make an appearance?
Yes. Slightly. You can see, I’m pretty muted, my colors right now. I have a lot of maroons. [He gestures to his tie, and then to his Ed Nygma ID card.] My birth date, April Fool’s, 1988. Making me younger than I am, I totally appreciate it. But yeah, I have some really sweet custom-made suits, and they’re a lot of these dirty greens, golds, grays. It’s very muted gray-green-gold. And then I’ll have shots of color. And then my socks are purple polka dots. Always.

What’s your favorite riddle you’ve told so far?
I haven’t told that many riddles yet. I’ve been trying to, every now and then, come up with a riddle and put it on my Twitter. That’s actually been fun, because some people guess it. And I’ve been coming up with them! I’ve been making Cory originals.

Where do you think we’ll be with the Riddler by the end of the season?
I don’t know exactly. I’m going to be in the police department for a while, and I’m stoked about that because in terms of story, that leaves so many possibilities. It’s very Dexter of me to be potentially playing both sides. Learning the police department to such a degree that I know how to manipulate the system. So there’s a lot of potential.

What do you make of these fan theories about other villains coming on, like the Joker or Mr. Freeze?
I hope people continue to ask those questions. Anyone could be anyone. The city is littered with dangerous people, and so anybody could potentially be a major player eventually.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/18/the-riddler-gotham/

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- HQ Stills y BTS del 1.02 "Selina":

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- GOTHAM "Special Sneak Preview":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-tH4VVGDSs


- GOTHAM "Fish Mooney Has Her Ways":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EFTyznUo-k


- GOTHAM "Before There Was Batman...":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcoC16btJ3M


- GOTHAM "One Detective Will Become A Legend...":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHKuyGkvuqI

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- Descripción oficial y títulos del 1.03 “The Balloonman”:

1.03 “The Balloonman”: LA SEGURIDAD DE GOTHAM ESTÁ EN EL AIRE EN UN NUEVO CAPÍTULO (6 Oct 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) - Los detectives Gordon y Bullock rastrean a un vigilante que está matando los ciudadanos corruptos de Gotham atacándolos y poniéndoles globos. Mientras tanto, Oswald Cobblepot regresa a Gotham y consigue un nuevo trabajo cerca de una influyente figura del inframundo de la ciudad. Estrellas invitadas: Dan Bakkedahl como 'Davis Lamond', James Colby como el teniente 'Bill Cranston', David Zayas como 'Maroni', Jack Koenig como 'Arnold Danzer' y Clark Middleton como 'Gerrick'.

http://www.gothamsite.com/gotham-spoile ... scription/

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- GOTHAM "Barbara Kean...":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdgo6HDM0Qw


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