Remember thatfever dreamwhere the producers of Gotham announced they were making a boob tube show for Epix about Batman ’s butler , but not Gotham’sbonkers child - hittingversion of him ? Well , turn out that was certainly feverish but not a dream : because the show just found its Alfred .
Epix has confirmed that British actor Jack Bannon — a relative newcomer best known for roles in Endeavour and Ripper Street — will play the deed role in its 10 - part series Pennyworth . As you could see from the image of Bannon above , this is lead to be a much , much younger Alfred than you typically see in a Bat - verse post , because this show is actually set in ‘ sixty London , and will follow young Alfred as he leaves the SAS to form a private certificate company and shape with Thomas Wayne — uproariously discover in provide press material as “ who ’s not yet Bruce ’s father , ” because Thomas Wayne literally exists only to a ) be Batman ’s dad and b),get hit .
We still do n’t lie with much else about the series , other than the fact it will see Alfred attempt and accommodate his violent past times in the British Army with the charming , happy immature man he was before military Robert William Service . Seems like a private security company is the exact sort of place you would n’t go with to work out that out , but hey , we know he ’s gon na become a butler by the end of this bizarre exploration of Alfred ’s backstory anyway , so maybe young Pennyworth will learn that for himself before long enough .
Pennyworth choke into production at Warner Bros. ’ Leavesden Studios in the UK next calendar week , ahead of a debut on Epix in 2019 .
Update : 1:40 p.m. EST
Epix has now also confirmed that it has also cast Ben Aldridge , best known for the BBC war dramatic play Our Girl , as the young Thomas Wayne opposite Bannon ’s Alfred . He ’s described as a “ youthful patrician ” from the East Coast who find an “ improbable business partner ” in the evenly young Pennyworth .
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