One of mine most highly anticipated
series is the upcoming series inspired on the DC Comics’ Batman universe,
Gotham. For the last couple of months we have been getting some cast
announcements and some snippets of information about what the show is going to
be like, but now Fox has released not only the official logo for the series but
also the official synopsis, accompanied with the full cast list and more.
Everyone knows the name
Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose
reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's
story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it
take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham
City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what
circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become
Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?
"Gotham" is an origin
story of the great DC Comics super villains and vigilantes, revealing an
entirely new chapter that has never been told. From executive producer/writer
Bruno Heller (“The Mentalist,” “Rome”), "Gotham" follows one cop's
rise through a dangerously corrupt city teetering on the edge of evil and
chronicles the birth of one of the most popular super heroes of our time.
Growing up in Gotham City's
surrounding suburbs, James Gordon (Ben McKenzie, “Southland,” “The O.C.”)
romanticized the city as a glamorous and exciting metropolis where his late
father once served as a successful district attorney. Now, two weeks into his new
job as a Gotham City detective and engaged to his beloved fiancée, Barbara Kean
(Erin Richards, Open Grave, “Breaking In”), Gordon is living his dream – even
as he hopes to restore the city back to the pure version he remembers it was as
a kid.
Brave, honest and ready to prove
himself, the newly-minted detective is partnered with the brash, but shrewd
police legend Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue, “Sons of Anarchy,” “Terriers,”
“Vikings,” “Copper”), as the two stumble upon the city's highest-profile case ever:
the murder of local billionaires Thomas and Martha Wayne. At the scene of the
crime, Gordon meets the sole survivor: the Waynes' hauntingly intense
12-year-old son, Bruce (David Mazouz, “Touch”), toward whom the young detective
feels an inexplicable kinship. Moved by the boy's profound loss, Gordon vows to
catch the killer.
As he navigates the
often-underhanded politics of Gotham's criminal justice system, Gordon will
confront imposing gang boss Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith, The Matrix films,
“HawthoRNe,” Collateral), and many of the characters who will become some of
fiction's most renowned, enduring villains, including a teenaged Selina
Kyle/the future Catwoman (acting newcomer Camren Bicondova) and Oswald
Cobblepot/The Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor, “The Walking Dead,” Another Earth).
Although the crime drama will
follow Gordon's turbulent and singular rise through the Gotham City police
department, led by Police Captain Sarah Essen (Zabryna Guevara, “Burn Notice”),
it also will focus on the unlikely friendship Gordon forms with the young heir
to the Wayne fortune, who is being raised by his unflappable butler, Alfred
(Sean Pertwee, "Camelot," “Elementary”). It is a friendship that will
last them all of their lives, playing a crucial role in helping the young boy
eventually become the crusader he's destined to be.
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