{"id":105496,"date":"2018-10-16T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=105496"},"modified":"2018-10-16T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:20:07","slug":"pennyworth-prequel-series-casts-alfred-and-thomas-wayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/pennyworth-prequel-series-casts-alfred-and-thomas-wayne\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennyworth prequel series casts Alfred and Thomas Wayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Bannon (<em><strong>Endeavour<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>The Imitation Game<\/strong><\/em>) will officially star in Epix&#8217;s upcoming Pennyworth prequel as Batman&#8217;s butler Alfred Pennyworth, with Ben Aldridge (<em><strong>Fleabag<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Our Girl<\/strong><\/em>) appearing alongside him as billionaire Thomas Wayne.<\/p>\n<p>The series is coming from\u00a0<em><strong>Gotham<\/strong><\/em> showrunner Bruno Heller, but reportedly will not serve as a\u00a0<em><strong>Gotham\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>sequel. Instead, it will be a practically unrelated 10-episode scripted drama about Bruce Wayne&#8217;s butler Alfred Pennyworth.<\/p>\n<p>Pennyworth is a former British SAS soldier who formed his own security company and started working for Bruce&#8217;s father (before he was Bruce&#8217;s father) Thomas Wayne in London in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105499\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2cfc8304-8a63-4a46-afa4-bf0cad616991-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105499\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2cfc8304-8a63-4a46-afa4-bf0cad616991-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2cfc8304-8a63-4a46-afa4-bf0cad616991-1.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2cfc8304-8a63-4a46-afa4-bf0cad616991-1-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2cfc8304-8a63-4a46-afa4-bf0cad616991-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2cfc8304-8a63-4a46-afa4-bf0cad616991-1-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2cfc8304-8a63-4a46-afa4-bf0cad616991-1-616x370.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Wayne actor Ben Aldridge in Our Girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The young version of Pennyworth is described as &#8220;a boyishly handsome, cheerful, charming, clever young man from London. Honest, open-faced and witty, he&#8217;s the kind of person people would never take for a SAS killer. Alfred doesn&#8217;t know how to reconcile the kind-hearted boy he used to be with the cold, calculated killer he was forced to become. He&#8217;s a man on the make, who doesn&#8217;t know what to make of himself yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Wayne is a &#8220;young, fresh-faced billionaire hailing from the East Coast of the United States. Confident and extremely disciplined, this young aristocrat meets an unlikely business partner in Alfred Pennyworth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The series is based on the DC characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. Heller is set to write and executive produce.\u00a0<em><strong>Gotham<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s Danny Cannon will also return to executive produce and direct the pilot episode. Production will start this October at Warner Bros Studios Leavesden.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Pennyworth<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t yet have an air date. Get all the latest superhero news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batman prequel series Pennyworth has cast butler Alfred and Thomas Wayne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":105498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[103,6300],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-16-at-12.10.03.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}