Speaking to IGN at the
TCA's, Gotham's executive producer, Bruno Heller revealed a couple of things
about two of the many villains from the upcoming show.
First, Heller spoke about
the recent rumors of a possible new and different clown prince of crime in each
of episode of the first season.
"We will be playing with...Not just with Joker.
Half the fun with all of these characters is who is going to turn into what and
when? Certainly the Joker is a good example. In the pilot, you see there’s a
comedian there. People immediately leap...And that’s really letting the
audience do our work for us. Because I haven’t said anything about that guy and
people go there!"
So, do they intend to introduce the villain by teasing
us until the very end of the season?
"Yeah, we’ll play with that down the line. Not
over the course of one season, no, because people will still get tired of that.
'Is that the Joker? Is that the Joker?' No. In a subtle way, we’ll be doing
that and hopefully we’ll fool them in the end."
Heller was then asked about
the change of Ivy's name? In the comics she is known as Poison Ivy, but in the
show she is renamed Ivy Pepper.
"It’s
really about being able to tell the secret histories of these stories. If you
just re-tell stories exactly as they’ve been told before, whilst you’re being
true to the created mythology, you’re not really adding anything to it. So you
have to find ways of finding more. And in this case, we’ve set up a situation
in which Ivy Pepper, her mom is sick, her dad is dead… She’s going to go to the
orphanage. And she’s a nice young girl; relatively undamaged. And she will find
people to adopt her. And then we will start on the Poison Ivy story that people
are familiar with."
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