Doug Bradley, finest recognized for enjoying Pinhead within the Hellraiser franchise, joins The CW’s Gotham Knights as Joe Chill.
Doug Bradley could also be finest recognized for enjoying Pinhead within the Hellraiser franchise, however now he’ll tackle the villain who set certainly one of DC’s best heroes on his path — Joe Chill. Doug Bradley will play the character in episode six of Gotham Knights on The CW. Joe Chill has spent fifty years rotting on loss of life row, however together with his execution lastly scheduled, the infamous “Patron Saint of Dangerous Guys” isn’t about to let his secrets and techniques die with him.
“When casting the long-lasting function of Joe Chill, arguably the person who created Batman, there was just one identify we thought-about … Doug Bradley,” reads a press release from Gotham Knights producers Natalie Abrams, Chad Fiveash, and James Stoteraux. “We would have liked an actor with the sort of gravitas that may do justice to such a seminal character in DC Comics canon. And who higher to embody the function of the basic Gotham fiend than the person whose legendary portrayal of one other basic fiend – Pinhead within the Hellraiser franchise — continues to terrify generations of horror followers?”
The Gotham Knights sequence happen within the wake of Bruce Wayne’s homicide as his rebellious adopted son forges an unlikely alliance with the youngsters of Batman’s enemies when they’re all framed for killing the Caped Crusader. And because the metropolis’s most needed criminals, this renegade band of misfits should combat to clear their names. However in a Gotham with no Darkish Knight to guard it, town descends into essentially the most harmful it’s ever been. Nevertheless, hope comes from essentially the most sudden of locations as this crew of mismatched fugitives will turn out to be its subsequent era of saviours often called the Gotham Knights.
Gotham Knights stars Oscar Morgan as Turner Hayes, Anna Lore as Stephanie Brown, Olivia Rose Keegan as Duela Dent, Navia Robinson as Carrie Kelley, Fallon Smythe as Harper Row, Tyler DiChiara as Cullen Row, and Misha Collins as Harvey Dent. Natalie Abrams, Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux, all alums of The CW’s Batwoman sequence, have penned the Gotham Knights sequence, with Fiveash and Stoteraux additionally serving as govt producers alongside Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and David Madden, with Abrams co-executive producing.
Gotham Knights will premiere on The CW on March 14th.
