Donal Logue talks ‘Gotham’ setting, conflict, and more |
Last week the rumors were confirmed and Donal Logue officially joined the cast of Gotham as Detective Harvey Bullock. The Nerd Repository had a chance to speak with Logue, and asked him all about his latest role.
On his character Harvey Bullock and Gotham’s story
Contractually, I’m obligated to be there. I’m gonna be around, for sure. But the story falls squarely on Jim Gordon’s shoulders, and this awesome world where we get to meet the super infamous villains of GothamCity for the first time, when they’re young. For me, that’s the really interesting part: “oh, so that’s where you come from, Riddler.” There will definitely be Gotham villains that you’ve come to know and love being shown in a light that… maybe it’s the first time that light’s been shone on them.
On Gotham’s setting
What I do love about ‘Gotham,’ that I can say so far, is that it creates this incredible world that, for me, you can step into things that almost feel like the roaring ’20s, and then there’s this other really kind of heavy Blade Runner vibe floating around. It has this anachronistic element to it where it feels like it’s either New York in the ’70s, or it kind of exists independently of time and space in a way, and you can dip into all of these different genres. So I’m excited by it…There were a couple of examples of modern technology, but maybe an antiquated version of it, that gave me a little bit of sense that it’s certainly not the ’50s and the ’60s. No one’s making a joke about how “there’s no way you can press a telephone button and have a piece of paper show up in another machine.” There is an acceptance of a certain technological reality. But its not high tech and it’s not futuristic, by any means.
On Gotham’s conflict
There’s kind of an ambiguous line between good and bad. We have to let certain bad guys do certain things, in order for the greater good, for this machine to keep working. And then someone comes in who’s like ‘No, I have a much more black and white view, I’m not into this notion of moral relativism. There’s right and there’s wrong.’… And what is law? Is law this platonic form of truth that floats in space that is fixed, or is it something that’s this arbitrary thing where it’s like “the law is me and you, right now, in this car. Whatever we determine, that’s the law.” And that’s the kind of thing that will be a conflict in this show.
It’s a great interview and there’s a lot more to digest, head on over to The Nerd Repository to read the full thing.
Logue said the right words, ‘Gotham’ its probably the thing i am most excited to see this year.
Awesome. I’m glad they’re returning to the Burton/Timm atmosphere of timelessness to GothamCity. I can’t wait to see the first pictures.
Agree. Truly pleased that they might get the atmosphere right. Gotham to me
has always been an out-of-time mix of gothic/deco/steam punk/techno where
everyone wares loudish custom cloths and drives around in tricked-out custom
rides, all against a skyline of deco skyscrapers and gothic cathedrals.
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Atomic Man Antrozous for modern day, there’s nothing really to complain about his Gotham. It was going to look like a regular big city
cornhole
I LOVE that this show is going to attempt to honor that “lost in time” vibe that GothamCity has always possessed in the majority of its incarnations. I must say that I was a huge doubter of this show when I initially hear about it; however, with the more I learn, the more excited I seem to get! Hopefully they can do Batman justice on small screen live-action.
This show sounds excellent. Hopefully, the writing matches the concept.
I really hope barbara gordon is in this
Gordon is only engaged at the time of the pilot. She’s not going to be a significant part of the show for a long time, if at all.
This sounds really good!
I like him already.