Donal Logue Explains How ‘Gotham’ Is ‘On The Edge Of Anarchy’ Even Without Batman!

Before DC Comics focused on the detectives who fought to protect Batman's troubled city in Gotham Central.  Now Fox's upcoming prequel Gotham series will delve into the bad/good cop relationship between future police commissioner Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and detective Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue). The police procedural series will revolve around the detective duo in Gotham City before Batman emerged.

In the DC Universe, Bullock is the anti-heroic cop who has handed in his badge and gun numerous times. At times, the bad cop shows up, beating a confession out of the perp. With the police force sinking into corruption day by day, Bullock has never taken a bribe. In the TV series, we will see if rookie cop Gordon has what it takes to survive the mean streets of Gotham City. How can Bullock and Gordon trust each other if the two are always at odds?

In an interview with IGN, Logue discusses how the setting interests him, "What I loved about it was that - I'd read somewhere that they'd described Gotham, in the old comics, as something like, '11:11pm on a cold night, and the wind is blowing down a dirty alley.' Psychologically it has this feeling of a town that's on the edge of anarchy."

Logue explains Gotham will still be watchable without Batman in the starring role, "It's interesting because people will say, 'What good is Gotham? A Gotham without Batman is stupid! What's fascinating about Gotham is like, what happened in the 20 years before Batman was so effed up that it needed a vigilante to come and save it - and those moral decisions have repercussions. The question is, how did we get there? How did we get to the point where we had to have a Batman?"

We will just have to wait before the TV pilot of Gotham, starring Ben McKenzie and Donal Logue, premieres on Fox. To see how a series about Gotham City works without Batman, check out DC Comics'  Gotham Central.