'Gotham' EP Teases the Arrival of Solomon Grundy, Mad Hatter, and Killer Croc
With Gotham's third season arriving on Fox next month, executive producer John Stevens has taken some time to tease the upcoming villains, which will help launch the series further into the surreal, monstrous side of the Batman rogue's gallery.
"It’s difficult to do that without giving too much away but the idea of one is reincarnation, which is one where we obviously already crossed that hurdle,” Stevens told IGN of Solomon Grundy, who is an immortal, zombie-like man. “And the idea that someone would want to create reincarnation? Who out there would want to be interested in reincarnation?"
"When Solomon Grundy comes on, he will be a character we have not yet met," Stevens said, to counter any thoughts that he is a character previously seen and killed in prior seasons. "The Killer Croc thing we’ll see right at the beginning of the series. We’ll see like a proto version of that," said Stevens.
Croc has already been cast, he said, though it's unlikely that we'll know the actor very well by name. "He's not somebody famous right now."
With the Mad Hatter being revealed so recently, Stevens had a little to say regarding inspiration. "I feel like the character’s an amalgam as much anything. There’s a little bit of the reality from the Brubaker books but also from the New 52 and the Snyder books. There’s some of that, too. From the Batman Mad series in terms of the emotional drive that he has.
"Benedict [Samuel] is definitely taller than most versions of Jervis but he plays it with a level of naturalistic insanity that I think, he really fills out that pantheon really, really well. But, no, there’s no influence from the games."
Source: Comicbook
