Films have become a lot more closed curtains about their sets as easter eggs and secret cameos and surprise co-stars have become all the rage in Hollywood. Thanks to films like those produced by Marvel Studios (even if they weren’t the first to do so), superhero films often run a very tight production when it comes to leaking things to the public.
When it came to the production of Batman Returns, Danny Devito as Penguin was revealed in all his cinematic glory to tabloids when the film was just halfway through its production. While Devito in Penguin regalia was plastered on every entertainment newspaper worth its ink, WB got on figuring out who was the leak.
Warner Brothers hired a PI firm to deduced who had leaked the image of Danny DeVito
Ironic, that the film about the World’s Greatest Detective had to hire a PI firm to discover a leak. Warner Brothers really wanted to figure out who was behind the picture of Dany DeVito finding its way to the press. Production designer Bo Welch, speaking with Empire Magazine, revealed the extent to which the company went to figure out who they had to blame for the leak. he said:
It was a big deal to them. Every day we’d come into work expecting a big bust.
However, turns out that WB never really caught the person who was responsible for the leak. However, the reveal served as a very good litmus test about how fans felt about the aesthetics of the film. People enjoyed seeing DeVito in the costume for a while, but the hype died down as soon as it built up.
The first look at The Penguin has fans excited for what is to come from Matt Reeves
SDCC 2024 gave fans the first proper look at the follow-up to Matt Reeves’ The Batman. The show will directly lead into The Batman Part II. Fans are excited to dive back into the world of The Batman, which many have hailed as one of the best live-action versions of the character, right up there with Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy.
The Penguin is described as a Scarface story, about Oswald Cobblepot trying to get ahead in life by raising his social status in Gotham, which has a severe class divide issue, as was revealed in the first entry into the franchise. Robert Pattinson’s Batman’s sophomore outing will pick up right where The Penguin will leave things off, which means that the show might give us a glimpse into what the plot of the second film might be.
The Penguin will be available on HBO starting September 8, 2024.
