Gotham: Bruno Heller Teases The Red Hood

The Red Hood has quite a history in the Batman universe. Most recently it was the identity used by resurrected former Robin Jason Todd, but it has a much darker origin. Red Hood was originally the criminal identity the Joker went by before he fell into a vat of acid and actually became the Joker. Recently Gotham EP Bruno Heller teased the Red Hood eventually coming to Gotham along with the general introduction of costumes to the Gotham universe.

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"That’s a good question. Especially now that we have a pick up, I always take a long-term view of a show. I’m looking at several years. So we’re in no hurry to [do that] — there’s going to be an episode that involves the Red Hood, which picks up that strand, the costume strand, and sort of gives a kind of philosophical base, if that’s not too pretentious a word. Why costumes? What’s the power of costumes? What’s the power of a mask? All of that groundwork will be laid sort of culturally for that side of the DC Universe before we start rolling into the more spectacular spandex type of deal. Because — I can’t remember where I read it — the reason that the comic book characters wore costumes is because in the very rough printing that they used to have in newspapers, that’s the only way you could make a character pop. “Oh, that’s Batman, that’s Superman, that’s Dick Tracy.” On TV, you don’t need that same color and signature to make people pop. It’s the characters that pop. So we’re never going to be a full-on costume drama. We’re going to be a full-on character drama. Like Batman, there’s the super powers, super will, and there’s super strength, but only on a human level. Not on a supernatural level. It’s very important, again, for the longevity of the show, that we take this step by step."

So it more sounds like we might have a proto Red Hood, someone that used the identity of the Red Hood before the one that becomes the Joker, but it still several seasons off, and while obviously Gotham is super successful at the moment, it’s pretty ambitious to plan that far ahead. Bottom line, keep watching Gotham Mondays on Fox if you eventually want to see the Red Hood!

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