We’ve known since before the summer (here) that a TV series based on the early life of Batman’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth, was coming and now we have our first big casting news.
The Imitation Game, Ripper Street’s Jack Bannon has been cast as Alfred and Fleabag’s Ben Aldridge will play Thomas Wayne.
Alfred is described as a boyishly handsome, cheerful, charming, clever young man from London. Honest, open-faced and witty, he’s the kind of person people would never take for a SAS killer. Alfred doesn’t know how to reconcile the kind-hearted boy he used to be with the cold, calculated killer he was forced to become. He’s a man on the make, who doesn’t know what to make of himself yet.
While Aldridge’s Thomas Wayne is a 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.
Honestly, while this is technically a ‘Batman’ show, we can see this being a very cool spy thriller with little to know reference to the wider DC universe and we think that could be very cool.
The 10-episode, hour-long drama series is based on DC characters created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger. It follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Bannon), a former British SAS soldier in his 20s, who forms a security company and goes to work with a young billionaire Thomas Wayne (Aldridge), who’s not yet Bruce’s father, in 1960s London.
Judge Dredd director Danny Cannon will direct the first episode.
Source: Deadline
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