Colin Farrell earned a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination for playing Oz Cobb, aka the iconic Batman villain the Penguin, in his 2024 HBO series, but the character almost debuted in the DC Universe years earlier.

Without Matt Reeves and 'The Batman', 'Birds of Prey' would have seen Harley Quinn going up against not Black Mask, but The Penguin.

Matt Reeves isn’t a criminal mastermind like his The Penguin muse Oz Cobb, but he did steal one pretty major thing: Penguin himself. Margot Robbie exposed the director’s underhanded dealings in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview with her A Big Bold Beautiful Journey co-star Colin Farrell—who just happens to play The Penguin in The Batman and the eponymous,