Move over Batman! Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne’s longtime butler, is about to take front and center in EPIX’s new series, Pennyworth.
Pennyworth follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company and goes to work with Thomas Wayne, Bruce’s billionaire father, in 1960’s London.
In an interview with comicbook.com, executive producers Danny Cannon and Bruno Heller aimed to make the series more like a gritty James Bond movie.
“I went back and watched Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer movies, and the first couple of James Bond movies, because going back to that Cold War kind of story telling I liked going back into this period because all of our Berlin movies and Russian espionage movies, it was like the British version of westerns,” Cannon said. “Like there was a wild west quality to the Cold War. Because after the war was done, we knew that there was a nuclear bomb, and we were capable of terrible things, but the spying and the style in which it was done, and the dignity with which it was done, and the charm with which it was done I thought all reminded me of what Bruno had been talking about. So going back to those movies, and watching what was good about Michael Caine back there was he didn’t hide his accent. And the fact that Harry Palmer was very unpopular, but he just got the job done. Because he called everything as it was. His feet were firmly placed in the ground, he’d look people in the eye and I really appreciated that, James Bond, same thing too.”
Starring Jack Bannon (Ripper Street), Ben Aldridge (Fleabag), Paloma Faith (Youth), Hainsley Lloyd Bennett (King of Crime), and Emma Corrin (The Crown).
Pennyworth premieres July 28th on EPIX.
