Entertainment Weekly has revealed the first look at Scarecrow and Barbara Gordon in the upcoming third season of DC’s Titans which will be premiering on HBO Max.
Vincent Kartheiser was cast for the role of Dr. Jonathan Crane aka Scarecrow a few months back for the third season of Titans. The Mad Men alum is the fear-toxin-loving Batman villain who will be moonlighting for the Gotham City Police Department while he’s locked up in Arkham Asylum.
Showrunner Greg Walker states “He’s been given the opportunity to opine on his ways to stop villains, and a villain breaks out in Gotham and it draws Dick Grayson back to work with him.” Cranes’ obsessions make him challenge the Titans in a very different way than season 2 villain Deathstroke.
“So much of our show is about becoming a family and the fears that people have as they grow older and get older. Crane seems to be, in many ways, a perfect villain in that he exploits fear. The human mind and heart become the battlefield. This is someone who’s working off your feelings and emotions, and that’s where we want to live.”
Greg Walker believes the audience will be very impressed with Kartheiser’s turn as Crane. “This is a learned psychologist who understands the human mind but also has a deep, dark vendetta to destroy people in a way that you need to be able to manifest as an actor – to find the broken and the mania, And Kartheiser hands both very well” Greg states.
Another addition to the show is Savannah Welch who was cast as Barbara Gordon with whom Dick Grayson rekindles a romance and strikes up a new partnership when he and the Titans relocate from San Francisco to Gotham City.
Barbara Gordon was Batgirl-turned-GCPD Commissioner, team up forces the couple to reckon with Batman and Jim Gordon’s messy crime-fighting legacy and hopefully find a better way of protecting the city.
“In our story with Dick returning to Gotham – and Gotham is a huge character this season – it’s about sons and daughters, [and] stepping into the shadow of your parents,” says Walker. “Barbara is going to be conflicted by Dick’s arrival. Barbara’s feeling is that the legacy of Bruce and Jim has been this idea that she thinks is antiquated and inefficient: the God syndrome, meaning that superheroes create the situation where they’re the heroes. They drop in on a situation, solve it, and then they leave. And she feels that basically disempowers people from solving their own problems and that the people of Gotham need to figure out how to solve their own problems and not be passive victims waiting for a superhero to save the day.”
The official Twitter account for DC’s Titans has released an epic teaser before releasing a full trailer next month. If this teaser is anything to go by then the third season is going to be so epic and awesome that many fans will love it.
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