The Batman may still be more than a year from release, but Warner Bros. is already keen on expanding this new incarnation of the franchise. The studio has ordered a spinoff TV series focused on the members of the Gotham City Police Department, one that will be exclusive to HBO Max.
Variety broke the news, reporting that Warners has already given the spinoff a series order. The as-yet-untitled series will be produced by The Batman director Matt Reeves and Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter, as part of a new overall deal Reeves has signed with Warner Bros. Television. Winter will also write the series.

“This is an amazing opportunity, not only to expand the vision of the world I am creating in the film, but to explore it in the kind of depth and detail that only a longform format can afford — and getting to work with the incredibly talented Terence Winter, who has written so insightfully and powerfully about worlds of crime and corruption, is an absolute dream,” Reeves said.

According to Variety, the series will build on The Batman’s exploration of the crime and corruption in Gotham City that Reeves alludes to in his statement. While no actors or characters have been revealed yet, we wouldn’t be surprised if Jeffrey Wright’s Jim Gordon, John Turturro’s mob boss Carmine Falcone or Peter Sarsgaard’s D.A. Gil Colson appear during the course of the series. As for whether Robert Pattinson’s Batman will appear, that remains to be seen.

This will be the second live-action Batman series to focus on the GCPD after Gotham, which aired on Fox from 2014 to 2019 and starred Ben McKenzie as Gordon and Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock.

This is the latest DC series to make its home on HBO Max. The service will also play host to a Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti-produced Green Lantern Corps series and a J.J. Abrams-produced Justice League Dark series, among others. However, this is the first of these shows (that we know of) to be directly linked to a live-action DC movie.