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    Ben McKenzie is Young Commissioner Gordon

    Mary Anne ButlerBy No Comments

    Exclusive - TV Set - SouthlandGotham has found its Detective James Gordon.

    Fox and Warner Bros. TV have tapped Ben McKenzie to star in Gotham casting the Southlandalum as a young version of DC Comics’ famed Commissioner Gordon.

    Fox topper Kevin Reilly announced at the net’s winter TCA session that Gotham will feature the origin story of Gordon along with Gotham City’s notable villains. A young Bruce Wayne will also be featured, the show follows Wayne from his pre-teen years to the moment when it puts on the Batman cape for the first time.

    Bruno Heller penned the pilot script forGotham which has a series commitment at Fox. He will executively  produce with Danny Cannon, who also helmed the pilot.

    McKenzie is no stranger to the Fox family, as he landed his breakout role on the net’s sudsy drama The O.C.McKenzie also has experience working in the Batman universe, having voiced Bruce Wayne/Batman in 2011 animated picture  Batman: Year One.

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    Mary Anne Butler (Mab) got her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine as a teenager. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (News Editor), Nerdbot (as Editor-In-Chief), and now [Bad]Influencers, where she is Editor-in-Chief. Over the past 15 years, she’s built a well-known reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band. She also produces award-winning immersive events, including Wasteland Weekend and Neotropolis.

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