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‘GOTHAM’ STAR BEN MCKENZIE SAYS ‘THIS IS NOT A BATMAN-FROM-THE-’50S KIND OF SHOW’

Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller already sat under Entertainment Weekly‘s spotlight to talk about the new Fox series, and now it’s series star Ben McKenzie’s turn.

McKenzie will play a young James Gordon on the show (which the producers have promised will not be about Batman, even though there’s a preteen Bruce Wayne running around). He told EW pretty unequivocally that the show will be a darker take, with plenty of moral gray areas, in case you were wondering whether it would be like every other Batman media property of the past 30 years or so.

“[DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns] gave me Gotham Central … and said two things: The origin story of Gordon hasn’t been fully explored before. As central as he is, Gordon has never been the focus. And second, you can’t worry about that. ‘We hired you to play you and to make this character fresh.’ And he said it without provocation.”

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