Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime
world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and
order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie
detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the
multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the
spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what
circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would
become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?
GOTHAM
is an origin story of the great DC Comics super villains and
vigilantes, revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told.
From executive producer/writer Bruno Heller (“The Mentalist,” “Rome”),
GOTHAM follows one cop's rise through a dangerously corrupt city
teetering on the edge of evil and chronicles the birth of one of the
most popular super heroes of our time.
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.
As he navigates the often-underhanded politics
of Gotham's criminal justice system, Gordon will confront imposing gang
boss FISH MOONEY (Jada Pinkett Smith, “The Matrix” films, “HawthoRNe,”
“Collateral”), and many of the characters who will become some of
fiction's most renowned, enduring villains, including a teenaged SELINA
KYLE/the future CATWOMAN (acting newcomer Camren Bicondova) and OSWALD
COBBLEPOT/THE PENGUIN (Robin Lord Taylor, “The Walking Dead,” “Another
Earth”).
Although the crime drama will follow Gordon's turbulent
and singular rise through the Gotham City police department, led by
Police Captain SARAH ESSEN (Zabryna Guevara, “Burn Notice”), it also
will focus on the unlikely friendship Gordon forms with the young heir
to the Wayne fortune, who is being raised by his unflappable butler,
ALFRED (Sean Pertwee, “Camelot,” “Elementary”). It is a friendship that
will last them all of their lives, playing a crucial role in helping the
young boy eventually become the crusader he's destined to be.
GOTHAM
is based upon characters published by DC Comics and is produced by
Warner Bros. Television. Executive producer Bruno Heller (“The
Mentalist”) wrote the pilot, which will be directed and
executive-produced by Emmy Award nominee Danny Cannon (the “CSI” series,
“Nikita”). Advertisement
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