Gotham Episode Five To Be Directed By Twin Peaks and Breaking Bad Veteran

Tim Hunter is coming to Gotham.No, not Timothy Hunter, of Books of Magic fame. Rather, director [...]

By Russ Burlingame

Tim Hunter is coming to Gotham.

No, not Timothy Hunter, of Books of Magic fame. Rather, director Tim Hunter, whose extensive TV work includes Twin Peaks, Breaking Bad, Mad Men and American Horror Story.

That's according to an image released by the Los Angeles Times showing the clapboard for Gotham's fifth episode, which was apparently filming on the day the Times paid a visit to the show's New York City filming location.

Hunter's IMDb page doesn't yet list Gotham; his most recent projects, according to his current filmography, are episodes of The Lottery and the Twin Peaks-inspired Wayward Pines, as well as a number of episodes of Bryan Fuller's NBC Silence of the Lambs prequel Hannibal.

It's Hannibal that seems the closest in sensibility to Gotham, of course; like Gotham, we know where most of these characters will eventually end up, but not the twists and turns of how they'll get there. Also like Gotham, the look and feel of the series is dependent on keeping a vague sense of the not-too-distant past, so as to make it both timeless and nostalgic and to allow for new Batman stories to happen now, or thereabouts.

Scott Bowers, who was one of the Second Unit directors in New York on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, apparently plays a similar role in Hunter's episode of Gotham, as well; there's a photograph of him directing a number of extras.

Assuming no unexpected delays, Hunter's as-yet-untitled episode of Gotham should air on October 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.

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