In a
recent interview to CBR, Gotham executive producers Bruno Heller and Danny
Cannon talked about building this new world that audiences haven't seen before
from scratch.
"Telling origin
stories, essentially, always seems to me the most fun and the best part of the
myth," explains Heller, "not just comic superhero myths, but Hercules,
Achilles, Rudyard Kipling. How things got to be the way they are has always
been my favorite part of these stories, so this was just a natural start with
the founding myth, but finding a different angle on it. And then, basically,
Danny took it from there, because he had a fully realized vision of this
world... [he] made it a three-dimensional
world that nobody else has done with this story."
Heller went on to say that they created a world for
two different audiences, those that know the universe, and those that don't.
"For me, you have to
be able to watch the show, even if you don't know who Batman is. This is a
story about the people. And so as long as we can do that, as long as we're
honoring the story we're telling you at the moment, then to a degree,
everything else takes care of itself. Everything else is a huge bonus. It's
like working with movie stars - as any director or writer will tell you, as
soon as you're working with people that other people feel they know and
understand, you're already bigger than life. Your story immediately, if you're
telling it right, has that same kind of mythic, iconic feel to it, and that's
the beauty of this world."
Gotham stars Ben McKenzie (Detective Gordon), Donal
Logue (Detective Bullock), Zabryna Guevara (Captain Essen), Sean Pertwee
(Alfred),Jada Pinkett Smith (Fish Mooney), Robin Lord Taylor (Penguin), Erin
Richards (Barbara Kean), Drew Powell (Butch Gilzean), David Mazouz (Bruce
Wayne), Camren Bicondova (Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman), and Corey Michael Smith
(The Riddler).
Source - CBR
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