The Batman prequel series “Gotham” has been picked up for a series order.  The story follows young Jim Gordon’s days on the Gotham police force years before Batman arrived on the scene.  In the series, Bruce Wayne is still a child who has just witnessed the murder of his parents.  And a lot of bad guys are going to wish that event didn’t happen when he grows up.  We get younger versions of The Riddler, The Penguin, Catwoman, etc…  I’m not usually a fan of prequels because they just tend to spin their wheels until the more interesting part of the story comes along years later.  I very much enjoyed “Smallville,” but quite frankly, I just wanted to see Clark Kent become Superman.  Which he finally did ten years later for all of about two minutes.  But I am going to check this out.  And unless they do a time jump, Bruce Wayne will obviously never become Batman in the series (for which I doubt the feature film division will allow).  But hopefully the series can stand on it’s own two legs and show us a more interesting part of Gotham City other than its Dark Knight.

Here’s the trailer and a detailed series of screenshots taken from it.