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Robin Williams and Danny DeVito were considered to play rogues Riddler and Penguin, respectively. Despite pressure from Warner Bros. to finalize a script and begin filming, Batman director Tim Burton remained uncertain about directing a sequel.
Danny DeVito as Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin: Abandoned at birth due to his hideous appearance by his aristocratic parents, he spends his life living in the sewers of Gotham City. He eventually rises and thickens a plot to take over Gotham as its new Mayor.
Suddenly, The Penguin coming up out of the water, weak and fatally injured; walks over to his umbrellas. Batman clears away the debris to find Max's fried corpse and Selina is nowhere to be found. Batman turns to the Penguin, reaches for an umbrella and takes it out]
Dec 22, 2014 · FILM DESCRIPTION: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy...
Jun 23, 2022 · Why Danny DeVito's Penguin Was the Best Live-Action Batman Villain. By Michael Heiskell. Published Jun 23, 2022. Warner Bros. Batman Returns was released in 1992, only three years after the...
Sep 1, 2023 · Colin Farrell and Robin Lord Taylor may have been terrific in their mostly accurate adaptations of The Penguin ---But Danny DeVito's time in the part was rea...
Apr 23, 2022 · Tim Burton convinced Danny DeVito to play the Penguin in Batman Returns by creating an entirely new version of the character who was both mythic and tragically relatable. The filmmaker told DeVito he wasn’t going to be strictly faithful to the Penguin of the comics, where the criminal character mostly appeared as a dapper man with a cigarette ...
