Colin Farrell's Penguin In The Batman Possibly Revealed

DC FanDome finally gave us our first real look at a certain superhero who's calling himself "vengeance."

In the first official teaser trailer for Matt Reeves' The Batman, Bruce Wayne ominously refers to himself simply as "vengeance" and frankly, the scene in which Robert Pattinson utters that line in the teaser is so badass, we'd be happy to call Bruce Wayne's masked alter-ego that name for all eternity.

"I'm vengeance…"

The footage also offered up glimpses at some of the people who will be working with and/or against Batman, depicted in his early 30s and clearly struggling with more than just his status as a city-protecting vigilante.

While fans were no doubt elated to get a look at Jeffrey Wright as Gotham City Police Department commissioner James Gordon, Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, and Paul Dano as the Riddler — shown throughout the trailer with his face obscured by a mask and goggles it's the appearance of a certain other iconic Batman villain that has everyone talking.

That villain is Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot, who's destined to become the nefarious Penguin from Batman lore.

In the new film, Colin Farrell portrays pre-Penguin Cobblepot, and in order to bring the well-known Batman baddie to life, Farrell apparently had to undergo an intense transformation. The Batman trailer shows who everyone is claiming is Farrell as Oz Cobblepot, looking categorically unrecognizable behind a truckload of prosthetics and sporting a balding wig. He looks so unlike his regular self that many fans didn't realize it was actually Farrell they were seeing in The Batman's teaser, and others are still in disbelief that it's truly Farrell.

Filmmaker Ben Mekler quickly took to Twitter upon hearing the digital buzz about Farrell and the Penguin in The Batman. In an effort to clear up the confusion, Mekler tweeted that he reached out to his pal and The Batman screenplay co-writer Mattson Tomlin to get confirmation that the man seen in the Batman trailer is 100 percent Farrell.

Mekler wrote:

"Immediately texted mattsontomlin to make sure cause I couldn't believe it – it's him alright,"

As it is, Farrell's prosthetic-heavy appearance in the Batman trailer means the character may be far more of an unknown quantity than expected. That's likely a good thing, as the footage for The Batman paints Reeves' new Bat-flick as more of a grounded, noir-tinged tale of hero versus villains meaning a more comics-faithful adaptation of the Penguin would feel extremely out of place. Keep watching the video to see how Colin Farrell's Penguin in The Batman possibly revealed.

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