Set to be one of the most promoted shows this coming fall season, Fox has let loose with a cast image of the main characters for its adaptation of Gotham, which gives us a look at the city that will be the home of Batman one day. With its focus on a young Jim Gordon, a lot of comic book fans are already against it, but I’ll provide my anecdotal evidence that it could do well as every time I mention the show concept to people who have only seen the movies, they’re all intrigued by it and wanting to see the origins of things that they already know about without the flash and over the top style of a big budget movie.
Gotham is scheduled to air on Monday nights at 8pm before Sleepy Hollow at 9pm.
The series stars Ben McKenzie, Sean Pertwee, Robin Lord Taylor, Zabryna Guevara, Erin Richards, Donal Logue, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Mazouz, Camren Bicondova, Cory Michael Smith, Victoria Cartagena and Andrew Stewart Jones.
Plot concept: Growing up in Gotham City’s surrounding suburbs, JAMES GORDON (Ben McKenzie, “Southland,” “The O.C.”) romanticized the city as a glamorous and exciting metropolis where his late father once served as a successful district attorney. Now, two weeks into his new job as a Gotham City detective and engaged to his beloved fiancée, BARBARA KEAN (Erin Richards, “Open Grave,” “Breaking In”), Gordon is living his dream – even as he hopes to restore the city back to the pure version he remembers it was as a kid.
Brave, honest and ready to prove himself, the newly-minted detective is partnered with the brash, but shrewd police legend HARVEY BULLOCK (Donal Logue, “Sons of Anarchy,” “Terriers,” “Vikings,” “Copper”), as the two stumble upon the city’s highest-profile case ever: the murder of local billionaires Thomas and Martha Wayne. At the scene of the crime, Gordon meets the sole survivor: the Waynes’ hauntingly intense 12-year-old son, BRUCE (David Mazouz, “Touch”), toward whom the young detective feels an inexplicable kinship. Moved by the boy’s profound loss, Gordon vows to catch the killer.
