Today at Wondercon, one of Gotham’s executive producers, John Stephens, told an audience that several Batman villains would come to the Shows Second Season. Those previously announced include Victor Fries, known to many as the icy Mr. Freeze, Basil Karlo, also known as the murky Clayface, and the Mad Hatter, the whimsical denizen of Lewis Carolls fictional lands of inane madness. The announcement of all of the aforementioned characters was done on the shows official Twitter Account, excepting Freeze, whose inclusion was heralded by Variety’s Laura Prudom in one of the following messages. Also included is another message from the same account may have inadvertently dropped another vital pice of information regarding the Court of Owls, a villainous entity introduced by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo in 2011,
Besides this, other producers for the show have claimed that both Jerome, the Proto-Joker played by Cameron Monaghan earlier this season, and “the character of billionaire Bruce Wayne” will be furthr explored and developed during the upcoming year. Also, another tweet by Prudom claims that Bruce Wayne wil NOT suit up as Batman during the shows tenure, and will instead grow to this point through the growth and complication of his various relationships with both Alfred Pennyworth, his Stalwart Butler, and Jim Gordon, the series' Primary Protaginist,
Based upon characters published by DC Entertainment and produced by Warner Bros. Television, GOTHAM is an origin story of the great DC Comics Super-Villains and vigilantes, revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told. Starring Ben McKenzie ("Southland," "The O.C."), Donal Logue ("Sons of Anarchy," "Terriers," "Vikings," "Copper") and Jada Pinkett Smith ("The Matrix" films, "HawthoRNe"), GOTHAM follows one cop's rise through a dangerously corrupt city teetering on the edge of evil and chronicles the birth of one of the most popular super heroes of our time. Executive producer Bruno Heller ("The Mentalist") wrote the pilot, which was directed and executive-produced by Emmy Award nominee Danny Cannon (the "CSI" franchise, "Nikita"). John Stephens will serve as an executive producer on the series.