The Batman's Penguin spin-off sets female lead: Cristin Milioti

Cristin Milioti
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Cristin Milioti has been tapped to star in The Penguin, HBO Max's upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Batman spin-off.

Milioti is set to play Sofia Falcone, daughter of crime boss Carmine Falcone (played by John Turturro in the film).  The show is said to explore Penguin's journey to 🎃holding power in Gotham's underworld. Sofia will go head to head with Colin Farrell's Penguin for control of Gotham City. The character was previously played by Crystal Reed in Fox's Gotham, which explored the origin stories behind som⛎e of Batman's most notorious villains.

Craig Zobel, who directed the limited series The Mare of Easttown, is set to Helm the Farrell-led villain ♉series. Zobel also directed the 2020 contr❀oversial horror thriller The Hunt and episodes of HBO's Westworld and CBS All Access's One Dollar.

Lauren LeFranc (Impulse, Agents of SHIELD) is set to pen t🍰he script. Farrell will reprise his role as the titular villai💙n and executive-produce along with director Matt Reeves and producer Dylan Clark.

Milioti starred opposite Andy Samberg in the rom-com 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Palm Springs, the short-lived series Ma⛎de for Love, and is perhaps best known for playing Tracy McConnell in How I Met Your Mother. She⛎ currently leads Peacock's The Resort.

The Penguin does not yet have a release date, though it was reported to have entered production in September. For more, check out our round-up of the most exciting 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming films, or, our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:movie release dates. For more superheroes, check out our complete guide to watching 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:DC movies in order to get up to date on the DCEU.

Lauren Milici
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