Gotham TV Series: Casting the Police Department in Batman’s Town

Even though there’s no Batman planned for the forthcoming Fox series Gotham, one of his best-known supporting players (future Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon) will star as the detective at the head of what most are assuming will be a police procedural with a twist.And, it’s probably not a stretch to imagine that some of the other people we’ve known for years in the Gotham PD will make appearances along the way. It might mess with the timeline slightly to craft a world where Gordon is just a Detective and Renee Montoya exists already–but it’s more likely, at least until we know better, than building a whole new supporting cast out of thin air.So with that in mind, who would we fancast for the show? Read on…but know that we’re going to play a little more fast-and-loose than we did last night when we were brainstorming ideas for John Constantine.  Here, we aren’t going to worry quite so much about scheduling conflicts and the like–just whether the person we’re “casting” could pull it off and would believably work on a network TV series.