For a brief while there back in 2020, “The Sopranos” writer/executive producer and “Boardwalk Empire” creator/showrunner Terence Winter was attached to serve as showrunner on a TV series tied to Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” film. The film was on hold mid-production at the time due to the first wave of the COVID pandemic, nevertheless HBO Max handed out a straight-to-series order for the untitled series that was to focus on the Gotham City Police Department a year before the events of the film. Specifics of the show’s story were under wraps, some speculating it would be based on the “Gotham Central” comic.
Winter was attached for several months there before exiting the series in late 2020. Joe Barton took over showrunner duties, but the show was ultimately scrapped. Now, Winter has spoken with podcast to promote the second season of “Tulsa King” which he produces, and discussed what his “Gotham P.
D.” would’ve been like. He says: “The idea was that we were going to do a 1970s cop show – something that felt like [Sidney Lumet’s] ‘Prince of the City’ but in the Gotham City Police Department.
It was going to have that [1970s] feel. It was going to be a present-day cop who is like a third-generation Gotham City cop, you know, his grandfather, his dad, and, you know, and Gotham City was largely corrupt. This is the guy we meet in the present day who’s realizing that he’s kind of on the wrong side.
The Batman was somebody that lived in that wo.