Another Batman villain could get his own TV series.
A Poison Ivy TV show is in the works at HBO with “The Penguin” showrunner Lauren LeFranc as producer, Variety confirmed.
LeFranc’s “The Penguin” marked the first live-action spin-off of a Batman film, after Colin Farrell created his villain in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” in 2022. It aired on HBO in 2024 and became a hit with critics and fans for its realistic gangster story. Farrell won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his lead performance, and the series landed several nominations for best limited series.
Poison Ivy, the green femme fatale from the Batman comics, has never been the focus of a film or TV show, but she has appeared in several live-action and animated DC titles. The classic villain has the ability to control plants and often controls people’s minds using seductive pheromones. She first arrived on the big screen in 1997’s “Batman & Robin” and was played by Uma Thurman. In live-action television, she has also appeared in “Gotham” and “Batwoman”, and she has appeared in several animated shows like “Batman: The Brave and the Bold”, “The New Batman Adventures”, “Young Justice” and more. Recently, she was voiced by Lake Bell in “Harley Quinn” and played the girlfriend of the main character.
The DC Universe expands this weekend with “Clayface,” focusing on the shape-shifting Batman villain. It has no connection to the world of Robert Pattinson and Reeves, which continues in 2028 with “The Batman Part 2.” HBO will also air “The People vs. Gorilla Grodd,” a comic spin-off focused on the villains of James Gunn’s “Superman” film, sometime in 2027.
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