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The writers who took part in this year’s Envelope Roundtable touched on social media blackouts, release strategies, runaway ...
Showrunner Lauren LeFranc addresses The Penguin's success and reveals whether she would like to make a similar project centered around another DC character. The Penguin is the first spinoff in ...
“I feel some of the female characters weren’t given the richness of other male characters,” says LeFranc regarding comic book dramatis personae. “I did a spin on ‘The Hangman’ of it ...
There, we had a chance to catch up with The Penguin‘s showrunner, Lauren LeFranc, and take a deep dive into the series. LeFranc knows every minute of the series by heart, so there’s no better ...
I was intrigued by it, even just reading the scripts.” The Penguin showrunner Lauren LeFranc told Decider that she actively wanted to subvert what audiences might expect from the gangster genre.
Showrunner Lauren LeFranc chats with THR at The Penguin carpet and shares why they ultimately decided against an appearance from Robert Pattinson's Batman in the series. Plus, she explains why ...
Even so, showrunner Lauren LeFranc concludes the season with a shot of the Bat-Signal looming over the Gotham skyline; after Oswald Cobb vanquishes his mob-family competitors and installs himself ...
The Penguin was never going to be a redemption story. Showrunner Lauren LeFranc knew that when she signed on to helm the HBO spinoff of The Batman centered around Colin Farrell’s low-level mob ...
Lauren LeFranc: It’s challenging and exciting to inherit The Penguin, to inherit being in the Gotham City that Matt established. I think what’s challenging is that, yes, you’re ...
It could be argued that HBO put gangsters out of business, or at least we thought they did. Then along comes HBO Max and DC’s The Penguin. Yes, it’s about Colin Farrell getting lost in the ...