FOX’s “Gotham” series creators know exactly where the show will end.
Show executive producer Danny Cannon and creator Bruno Heller are firm about the show not being about “Batman,” according to The Wrap. There are no plans to continue the show after the Bruce Wayne becomes the caped vigilante.
“I was relieved when I found out there was no Batman, I don't want to stand shoulder to shoulder with Chris Nolan,” Cannon told The Wrap. “Chris Nolan's masterpiece and on a TV budget? I really don't want to do that.”
“For me I always lose interest as soon as he gets into the costume,” Heller added. “You can't tell human stories with super-humans in the frame.”
“Gotham” will follow Wayne’s journey as a 12-year-old boy grieving the loss of his parents. However, the show could hit a bump when Wayne travels the world at 14-years-old. In the comics, Wayne doesn’t return to Gotham until 18 years have passed, but Heller claims the show can make it work.
“I think there is a natural, sort of Moby Dick ending, if you'd like — which is not a clever ending — but as soon as Batman appears, that is the end of the show,” Heller told The Wrap. “Enter Batman; exit the show.”
The show producers can’t predict whether the show will be a success on FOX, but are confident in the casting of their male and female characters alike, especially Fish Mooney. “The Matrix” alum Jada Pinkett Smith takes on the role of the female mob boss in the show.
“It was important to have a strong, powerful female character that is unapologetically a player,” Heller told The Wrap. “And not because she's attractive or sexy — that's not the source of her power.”
“It's funny, I didn't have Jada in mind while writing the character, but as soon as I saw what she was doing, she had taken it,” he added. “It is a powerful archetype that you don't see nearly enough of — which is an unapologetic, powerful, kick-ass bad woman. ‘Bad’ in both senses of the word.”
FOX's "Gotham" pilot will premiere during San Diego Comic Con 2014 on Saturday, July 26.
