Fox Acquires Rights To Batman Prequel Series ‘Gotham’ Focusing On Commissioner Gordon
By The Movie God
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Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 at 9:54 pm
Another superhero-related TV series is on the way, this time from the DC Comics universe. The pilot for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiered tonight, and now, after a bidding war took place, Fox has made a large deal with Warner Brothers TV to acquire the rights to Gotham, a drama series that will focus on Batman character Commissioner Gordon.
The series is a prequel to the Batman story, set years before Gordon ever meets Batman. In fact, the Dark Knight won’t be a part of the show at all (at least not at first—you never know with TV). It follows the origins or Gordon back when he was a detective, and the villains who made Gotham City famous.
Gotham comes from Bruno Heller, creator of the amazing but far too short-lived HBO series Rome and the hit CBS series The Mentalist, and the deal comes with a series commitment.
Other DC Comics-based TV series include Smallville, Arrow, and the upcoming Flash.
Will you watch a TV series focusing on a young Commissioner Gordon?
I’ll only watch this if it airs on a channel available on Freeview or Freesat, like Agents of SHIELD.
Comment by Dalekbuster523 — September 25, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
Why do these kind of good ideas have to go back to ‘prequel status’… Gotham would have worked better as a “what happens in the city after Batman leaves to face Superman and (hopefully) join the Justice League”… there is a hole there in an already structured (and ongoing) narrative, so why not fill it with an on-going story line peoples ??!?
SHIELD Pics up the threads of an ongoing-story, I honestly with Fox, Warners and Sony would stop re-Booting and prequel-ising (it’s probably a real word) their source material and just get on with telling an on-going story in thier respective XMen, Batman, DC and Spiderman universes
Comment by James Brown — September 26, 2013 @ 5:32 pm
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I’ll only watch this if it airs on a channel available on Freeview or Freesat, like Agents of SHIELD.
Comment by Dalekbuster523 — September 25, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
Why do these kind of good ideas have to go back to ‘prequel status’… Gotham would have worked better as a “what happens in the city after Batman leaves to face Superman and (hopefully) join the Justice League”… there is a hole there in an already structured (and ongoing) narrative, so why not fill it with an on-going story line peoples ??!?
SHIELD Pics up the threads of an ongoing-story, I honestly with Fox, Warners and Sony would stop re-Booting and prequel-ising (it’s probably a real word) their source material and just get on with telling an on-going story in thier respective XMen, Batman, DC and Spiderman universes
Comment by James Brown — September 26, 2013 @ 5:32 pm