It’s being reported that Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game, Fury) has been cast in the lead role of Alfred Pennyworth in the upcoming Epix series Pennyworth, which will as a Batman prequel showing the origin story of Bruce Wayne’s most trusted and capable confidant.
The 10-episode series begins production on October 22nd, to debut in 2019. Featuring a “boyishly handsome and charming young man from London, that one would never take for a trained SAS killer.”
UPDATE: It’s also been confirmed that British actor Ben Aldridge (Our Girl) has been cast as Thomas Wayne, the co-lead of the Epix series, Pennyworth.
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