Gotham show runner Bruno Heller and director Danny Cannon really want you to believe in how Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.

It’s really about telling the true story of how someone might become the Batman. The psychological truth of that is that he’d be a lot more damaged and a lot more traumatized and a lot more strange than some visions of how that character would be. It’s a dark character, and it’s a character under pressure. So to that degree, as much as I hate to say it, he’s not a fun character, as you might imagine. It’s not a tale of triumph. It’s a tale of redemption.

So far they’re saying all the right things. Batman is such a complex case-study of childhood trauma and its effect on his development that to care about him requires a belief of the path he’s taken. Cannon and Heller also have an interesting take on Gotham as a city itself.

A world that’s starting to see a corrupt city rotting from the inside. It reminded us of New York in the late ’70s and early ’80s. That was our first meeting, and we kind of spring-boarded off of that. Luckily, that’s uncharted territory. Hopefully in the atmospherics of Gotham we created a romantic, gothic, Dickensian kind of world.

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m starting to get excited.

Source: IGN‘

GOTHAM is an origin story of the great DC Comics Super-Villains and vigilantes, revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told. From executive producer/writer Bruno Heller (“The Mentalist,” “Rome”), 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. 

Gotham will air Mondays on FOX, starting this fall.

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