If you’ve ever wanted to watch a ten-part miniseries of Batman’s weird butler Alfred Pennyworth, the people behind television show Gotham have got you covered. Producers Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon have cast Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game) as a younger, hotter Alfred for an upcoming series on Epix called Pennyworth.
Bannon will be joined by Ben Aldridge (American Psycho: The Musical) as Thomas Wayne, him and Alfred both working together in the show’s setting of 1960s London long before billionaire and not-at-all-Batman Bruce Wayne was born. The description that EW is given for the young Alfred is as follows:
“[A] boyishly handsome, cheerful, charming, clever young man from London. Honest, open-faced and witty; you’d never take him for an SAS killer. Alfred doesn’t know how to reconcile the kind-hearted boy he used to be with the cold, calculated killer he was forced to become. He’s a man on the make, who doesn’t know what to make of himself yet.”
Source: Destructoid Young Alfred Pennyworth show from Gotham producers casts its young Alfred and young Thomas Wayne