Since the Gotham TV series will star a younger James Gordon and include Bruce Wayne as a child, there’s been the assumption that the series will be set in the past. In a new interview with Nerd Repository, Donal Logue seems to confirm that the series will indeed be set in the past, but it might not be the past that most of us remember.Donal Logue is playing Harvey Bullock in the Gotham TV series. In regards to his version of the character, Logue has listened to the Bullock character in the Batman animated series, but he doesn’t want to copy that character. Logue said, “I want to create a character, no different from Lee Toric in Sons of Anarchy or King Horik [from History’s Vikings] or Hank Dolworth in Terriers. They’re all uniquely different scenarios and I don’t want to feel forced to do an impersonation of something else, which is a difficult thing to keep up over the course of a longer series. So we’ll have those talks.”However, the most interesting thing that Logue hints at is the setting for the series. “What I do love about Gotham, that I can say so far, is that it creates this incredible world that, for me, you can step into things that almost feel like the roaring 20s, and then there’s this other really kind of heavy Blade Runner vibe floating around,” said Logue. “It has this anachronistic element to it where it feels like it’s either New York in the 70s, or it kind of exists independently of time and space in a way, and you can dip into all of these different genres. So I’m excited by it.”Logue added, “There are elements of it that are completely contemporary and there are pieces of it that are very old-fashioned. I’m excited to see which way they go with the production design and wardrobe and all that kind of stuff.”When asked specifically about modern technology like cell phones, Logue replied, “You know what, that’s hard for me to really get into, I don’t want to say. But there were a couple of examples of modern technology, but maybe an antiquated version of it, that gave me a little bit of sense that it’s certainly not the 50s and the 60s. No one’s making a joke about how ‘there’s no way you can press a telephone button and have a piece of paper show up in another machine.’ There is an acceptance of a certain technological reality. But its not high tech and it’s not futuristic, by any means.”Gotham’s pilot is still currently in the casting phase of development. No air date has been announced.
