{"id":15726,"date":"2026-10-21T23:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=15726"},"modified":"2026-10-22T05:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:55:51","slug":"the-penguin-showrunner-lauren-lefranc-eyes-poison-ivy-tv-series-at-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/the-penguin-showrunner-lauren-lefranc-eyes-poison-ivy-tv-series-at-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penguin Showrunner Lauren LeFranc Eyes Poison Ivy TV Series At Warner Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/the-penguin-showrunner-lauren-lefranc-eyes-poison-ivy-tv-series-at-warner-bros.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<hr class=\"preferredSourceCTA-module-scss-module__sCL6Nq__divider\" \/><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a rollercoaster few weeks for fans of all things Detective Comics. Damon Lindelof&#8217;s DCU series <em>Lanterns<\/em> recently wrapped up a stellar debut season; production suddenly halted on Matt Reeves&#8217; <em>The Batman Part II<\/em>, only for Steven Soderbergh to swoop in to provide a last-minute assist; and James Watkins&#8217; hotly anticipated body-horror <em>Clayface<\/em> is heading to cinemas this very week. And if that all hasn&#8217;t fully twisted your noodle, then get this: <em>Deadline<\/em> is reporting that <em>The Penguin<\/em> showrunner Lauren LaFranc is in talks to join a new Poison Ivy focused TV series in development at Warner Bros. and DC.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Per <em>Deadline<\/em>&#8216;s reporting, LeFranc is currently only eyeing a producorial role on the series and isn&#8217;t expected to serve as either writer or showrunner on the project \u2014 one that had been temporarily put on the back burner amid Paramount and Warner Bros.&#8217; mega-merger but is very much now back on the board. While nothing is known about the series&#8217; plot, setting, or indeed casting as of yet (Lake Bell voices Poison Ivy in animated show <em>Harley Quinn<\/em>, but otherwise the character has been conspicuously absent from DC Studios&#8217; output), it is at least known that this show <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> expected to relate or connect to Matt Reeves&#8217; established <em>The Batman<\/em> universe, which itself \u2014 not at all confusingly \u2014 <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> connected to James Gunn&#8217;s mainline DC Universe featuring <em>Superman<\/em>, <em>Supergirl<\/em>, <em>Lanterns<\/em>, and <em>Clayface<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most memorably previously brought to life on screen by Uma Thurman in Joel Schumacher&#8217;s <em>Batman &amp; Robin<\/em>, and by Diane Pershing in <em>Batman: The Animated Series<\/em>, Poison Ivy \u2014 aka Dr. Pamela Isley \u2014 has been a mainstay in Batman&#8217;s rogues&#8217; gallery since her first comic book appearance in <em>Batman #181<\/em> in 1966, but hasn&#8217;t really been given a proper chance to shine in live-action to date. With <em>Clayface<\/em> and <em>The Penguin<\/em> having given some of Bats&#8217; best baddies a whole new villainous lease on life in recent times though, maybe a Lauren LeFranc overseen Poison Ivy show will give Dr Isley chance to really, er, plant her flag in the on-screen DC pantheon. Watch this space!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a rollercoaster few weeks for fans of all things Detective Comics. Damon Lindelof&#8217;s DCU series Lanterns recently wrapped up a stellar debut season; production suddenly halted on Matt Reeves&#8217; The Batman Part II, only for Steven Soderbergh to swoop in to provide a last-minute assist; and James Watkins&#8217; hotly anticipated body-horror Clayface is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15728,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions\/15728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}