There’ve been plenty of Batman TV shows over the years, both animated and live-action. But Fox’s Gotham is probably one of the more out there series: a prequel focused on Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) investigating the Waynes’ murder while Bruce himself (David Mazouz) is just a kid? And his future Rogues Gallery is either around his age or young adults? Despite that odd premise, things paid off. Gotham had a solid five-year run spanning 100 episodes, a prequel series in Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler , and a passionate fanbase that still has affection for it.
Ahead of the show’s 10-year anniversary on September 22, IGN published a lengthy retrospective on the series featuring interviews with the core cast, creator Bruno Heller, and executive producer (and recurring director/writer) Danny Cannon. As Heller explains it, the show came about after Warner Bros. and CBS passed on his legal drama The Advocates (which also starred McKenzie), and he was considering what to pitch next.
He’d settled on a Batman series because the character was so TV-ready, but he said his son Felix (an avid comics reader) helped him realize the show should focus on Gordon rather than Batman himself. “From that, a young detective investigating the Wayne murders was a natural concentration of ideas,” said Heller. “As soon as that notion hit, that he was the cop that investigates the death of the Waynes.
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