text: 'Gotham' Boss Sets New Batman Prequel Series at Epix (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter
  May 16, 2018 9:00am PT by Lesley Goldberg
  David Mazouz (left) and Sean Pertwee as Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth on Fox's 'Gotham'
  The project will revolve around Alfred Pennyworth, the best friend and butler to Bruce Wayne (aka Batman). The series is not a Gotham spinoff but rather an entirely new story exploring Alfred's origins as a former British SAS soldier who forms a secret company and goes to work with Thomas Wayne — Bruce's billionaire father — in 1960s London. Sean Pertwee, who plays Alfred Pennyworth on Fox's recently renewed Gotham, is not involved. Casting has not yet begun and the series is set in a completely different universe despite hailing from Heller and producers Warner Horizon. (Others who have played the Alfred role over the years include Jeremy Irons, Michael Gough, Michael Caine, Alan Napier and William Austin.)
  At Epix, meanwhile, Pennyworth brings the premium cabler into the genre space with the series joining recent straight-to-series drama Godfather of Harlem. That project, starring Forest Whitaker, is set in the early 1960s and hails from ABC Signature Studios. Epix's scripted roster also includes the drama Berlin Station and the comedy Get Shorty. Pennyworth arrives six months after Wright was tapped to take over the cable network. The executive returned to cable ranks following a stint at Amblin. Before his time with the production company, he ran Turner networks TBS and TNT, which, like Warner Horizon, are in the Time Warner family.