This Article is From May 06, 2014

Gotham Before Batman: Prequel Traces Origins of Superhero, Supervillains

Gotham Before Batman: Prequel Traces Origins of Superhero, Supervillains

Gotham is the latest in a series of screen adaptations featuring the brooding Batman

Highlights

  • In this grim city, there is no caped defender stalking the rooftops, the streets are empty of the criminally insane. The keeper of the peace is a police detective and the crimes he tackles are committed by common or garden felons, of the sort to be found in a darkened alley.
  • Except that the city is Gotham, the detective is a young Jim Gordon and the prosperous couple shot to death by a masked gunman in front of their young son are Mr and Mrs Wayne.
  • The trailer of Batman prequel TV show Gotham reveals a city in the care of rookie cop Jim Gordon, played by The O C star Ben McKenzie. The show tells the story of the origins of Batman and several of his later adversaries - The Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, The Riddler and Poison Ivy. As custodian of the city's law and order, Jim Gordon and his partner Harvey Bullock set out to catch the Waynes' killer, befriending the young Bruce Wayne in the process.
  • The cast also includes Jada Pinkett Smith as crime boss Fish Mooney and British actor Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, a former secret agent from London turned loyal Wayne family retainer.
  • Gotham, the latest in a series of screen adaptations featuring the brooding Batman, premiers in the US later this year.
New Delhi: In this grim city, there is no caped defender stalking the rooftops, the streets are empty of the criminally insane. The keeper of the peace is a police detective and the crimes he tackles are committed by common or garden felons, of the sort to be found in a darkened alley.

Except that the city is Gotham, the detective is a young Jim Gordon and the prosperous couple shot to death by a masked gunman in front of their young son are Mr and Mrs Wayne.

The trailer of Batman prequel TV show Gotham reveals a city in the care of rookie cop Jim Gordon, played by The O C star Ben McKenzie. The show tells the story of the origins of Batman and several of his later adversaries - The Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, The Riddler and Poison Ivy. As custodian of the city's law and order, Jim Gordon and his partner Harvey Bullock set out to catch the Waynes' killer, befriending the young Bruce Wayne in the process.

The cast also includes Jada Pinkett Smith as crime boss Fish Mooney and British actor Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, a former secret agent from London turned loyal Wayne family retainer. (Also Read: Jada Pinkett Smith joins cast of Gotham)

Gotham, the latest in a series of screen adaptations featuring the brooding Batman, premiers in the US later this year.

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