‘Pennyworth’ Trailer: Batman’s Butler Gets His Own Origin Story
If you’ve ever watched aBatmanmovie or TV show, or read aBatmancomic, and thought, “I wish they’d tell me about Alfred when he was a handsome young man!”, then you’re in luck. The EPIX seriesPennyworthgoes back to the swingin' ’60s to tell the origin story of Bruce Wayne’s famous butler/surrogate father. Watch thePennyworthtrailer below.
Pennyworth Trailer
Gothamis coming to an end, but if you want more Batman-related TV shows without Batman himself, you might want to check outPennyworth. The upcoming EPIX series “follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon), a former British SAS soldier in his 20s, who forms a security company and goes to work with a young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge), who’s not yet Bruce’s father, in 1960s London.”
As silly as this may sound, there is some precedent for “ass-kicking young Alfred.” In theBatmancomics, Alfred’s backstory includes being an MI-5 agent long before he became the Wayne family butler. And in Christopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight, Michael Caine’s Alfred tells a memorable story about working for the local government in Burma when he was a younger man, and trying to catch a bandit. This show will fill in the blanks of Alfred’s life, and presumably explain why an ass-kicking secret agent would eventually decide to become a butler.
And if the prospect of seeing a young, hot Alfred who probably fucks isn’t enough to get you interested in this show, what if I told youPennyworthfeatures the descendants of Jack the Ripper, too?
“It’s twenty-something years before Gotham, it’s a very different world,” executive producer Danny Cannonsaidin a past interview. “It’s not the England we know. It looks and feels like, but if you look a little closer, [you ask], ‘Why is that like that? Why is that building there? What war is he talking about?’ [The show will feature] archetypal villains and classic villains of British literature; they’re all available to us. Jack the Ripper was [around in the] 1880s, but he has descendants.”
In addition to Bannon and Aldridge,Pennyworthalso stars recording artistPaloma Faith,Jason Flemyng(The Curious Case of Benjamin Button),Ryan Fletcher(Outlander),Hainsley Lloyd Bennett(Eastenders),Emma Paetz(Gentleman Jack), andPolly Walker(The Mentalist, Rome).
Pennyworthwill debut on EPIX sometime this summer, but we prefer this Alfred project instead:
