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‘Boardwalk Empire’ Creator Exited ‘The Batman’ Spinoff About Gotham Police After Matt Reeves ‘Wasn’t Feeling It’: ‘I Worked on It for Awhile’
"Boardwalk Empire" creator Terence Winter says director Matt Reeves "wasn't feeling" his ideas for the axed spinoff show about the Gotham police.
“Boardwalk Empire” creator and “The Sopranos” executive producer Terence Winter is finally opening up about “ The Batman ” spinoff series centered on the Gotham police department that failed to get off the ground. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly earlier this year, Reeves said that the Gotham PD show as well as another spinoff series being developed about Arkham Asylum were dropped after HBO executives suggested to focus more on “marquee characters” from the Batman universe. “They were like, ‘We like what you’re doing, and we want to lean harder into the marquee characters,’” Reeves said, adding that elements from the axed Gotham PD show ended up finding their way into “The Penguin.”
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