Now that we know that Fox has
ordered the upcoming Gotham pilot for a full season, the first teaser trailer lands
online.
Written by Bruno Heller (The
Mentalist), Gotham will explore the origin stories of Commissioner Gordon and
the villains that call Gotham home.
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).
Danny Cannon (CSI, Nikita)
directed the pilot and will alongside Heller executive produce the show.
Gotham Official Synopsis:
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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