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Posted in: Movies | Tagged: bruno heller, entertainmnet, film, gotham, Ivy Pepper, Pamela Isley, poison ivy
Gotham Creator Addresses The Curious Name Change
With all the talk about the new Gotham series on Fox by Rome and The Mentalist creator Bruno Heller, one major character name change has been buzzing about in the background. IGN.com talked with Heller at the Television Critics Association press tour.
So why is the future Poison Ivy called Ivy Pepper instead of Pamela Isley?
"It's really about being able to tell the secret histories of these stories. If you just re-tell stories exactly as they've been told before, whilst you're being true to the created mythology, you're not really adding anything to it. So you have to find ways of finding more. And in this case, we've set up a situation in which Ivy Pepper, her mom is sick, her dad is dead… She's going to go to the orphanage. And she's a nice young girl; relatively undamaged. And she will find people to adopt her. And then we will start on the Poison Ivy story that people are familiar with."
Ivy is played by Clare Foley (Sinister, Orange Is The New Black). Gotham debuts September 22nd.
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