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Entertainment Earth has everything a Batman fan could want to express their love of the character – whether they prefer the campiness of the sixties TV show and movie, a certain era of comics, video game representations like the Arkham franchise, or any other iteration of the character – and feel like a citizen of Gotham City. These Batman themed products bring the Caped Crusader and the other inhabitants of Gotham City – good, evil, or in between – to life and we have more than you can possibly fit into a single Batmobile! Here you'll find all sorts of Batman toys like LEGO products and other construction playsets, display pieces like highly detailed prop replicas, rare, coveted items like film cells from the Batman movies themselves, apparel like t-shirts and jewelry, and so much more. I always ask for something worse.Welcome to the Entertainment Earth Batcave, where you'll discover hundreds upon hundreds of Batman action figures, statues, Funko Pop! Vinyls, works of art, and more, all of which are just as unique and numerous as the Dark Knight’s extensive rogues gallery. “He says, ‘I’m glad you’re not the writer. “I make suggestions to Bruno about where I’d like my plot to go and he thinks I’m too dark and too sinister,” laughs Faith.
In a series where Britain has descended into fascism, public executions are entertainment, and occult worship is weaponised, Faith’s appetite for darkness is somehow still unsatisfied. CREDIT: StarzPlay If Paloma Faith had her way, the show would be banned I say, ‘It’s him! It’s not me!’”īannon’s Alfred has a string of romantic affairs, including one with the Queen. “Quite often I’ll be on set in the morning and Jane Walker, our makeup designer, will look at me and tut. And his romantic escapades show no sign of slowing: “There are some new characters he gets involved with that he perhaps shouldn’t,” explains Bannon.Īlfred’s bed-hopping antics, Bannon reveals, have resulted in him taking the flak. In the first series Alfred was engaged (his fiancé was murdered), had a dalliance with barmaid Sandra, and a fling with Queen Elizabeth II – at the start of the second series he’s ghosting HM when she repeatedly calls him. Don’t say ‘owt’, just say ‘Nothing’.” Alfred is a top shaggerįew of us have ever wondered how often Alfred Pennyworth swung from chandeliers before he started cleaning them in Wayne Manor. They say, ‘We don’t understand what ‘owt’ is. Her accent has even ended up making more work for her: “It feels like every time I go too northern, I’m called in for additional dialogue recording to overdub the words. “But because it’s made for an American audience you can’t be too obscure, because they don’t really understand what you’re on about half the time.”įaith jokes she’s worried her northern accent is “too Coronation Street” when she’s aiming for “Alan Bennett”.
“We try to add more slang and that’s been fun,” says Bannon. Hardly a sentence slips by without it being illuminated by some neon-lit vernacular this poses problems for overseas audiences. Pennyworth is the most aggressively British show on television, more British than if Antiques Roadshow and The Great British Bake Off were crammed into the same tent and narrated by Del Boy. With season two due to air weekly on StarzPlay from February 28, Bannon and Faith reveal why the show is perhaps the most provocative and unique foray into the DC universe. That is, should they ever meet, as the show’s second series plunges Alfred – now a successful club proprietor in Soho – into a second English Civil War contested between the far-right forces of The Raven League and the Queen’s loyalists. Pennyworth then leaps even further, whisking the audience to an alternate timeline where 1950s/60s Britain is a drab quasi-fascist state teetering on the brink of political collapse.Ī stew of intrigue, violence, and antiheroism is just the place for Alfred to hone the skills which will make him a perfect ally for the world’s greatest detective. Starring Jack Bannon as Alfred and Paloma Faith as sociopathic villain Bet Sykes, the show’s jumping off point is the detail from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, where Alfred’s past as an SAS soldier surfaced. This (un)familiar situation is the state of play in the second series of DC’s Pennyworth, which documents the adventures of a young Alfred Pennyworth in his days before ironing Bruce Wayne’s Batsuits. Britain is a mess, divided into political factions.