The Batman Penguin Spinoff Plot Details Revealed, Female Lead Cast

Cristin Milioti has joined HBO Max’s Penguin spinoff of The Batman, where she will play Sofia Falcone.

Deadline first reported the casting news, saying Milioti’s Sofia Falcone is the daughter of Carmine Falcone, and will fight with The Penguin for control of the city. Fans will have recently seen different iterations of Sofia Falcone in both Gotham and Batman: The Long Halloween.

Milioti is known for appearing in How I Met Your Mother as the titular mother, as well as 2020’s Palm Springs, HBO Max’s Made for Love, and Peacock’s The Resort.

The Penguin spinoff on HBO Max is coming from The Batman director Matt Reeves, as one of a handful of planned Batman villain spinoffs. Milioti will star alongside Colin Farrell’s Penguin, who is thrilled to return to the character following The Batman.

Farrell recently shared a few details about the Penguin show, saying it begins “about a week after the film The Batman ends, so Gotham is still somewhat underwater… I read the first script for the first episode, and it opens up with my feet splashing through the water in Falcone’s office. Even just that alone, I read it, I was like, ‘Oh, jeez.'”

In a time of great change for DC, The Batman universe appears to be safe. In addition to the Penguin show, The Batman 2 appears to be moving ahead with Reeves. We’ll have to see if the plan for future The Batman projects changes at all now that James Gunn and Peter Safran are taking over the reorganized DC Studios.

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