The Batman HBO Max Spinoff Gotham PD Showrunner Addresses Comparison to FOX's Gotham ✖ The Batman by director Matt Reeves. With that world specifically being very early in Batman's story, many couldn't help but wonder how similar to Fox's Gotham the upcoming series would be as that series was also set early in the Batman story, though Gotham functioned as a prequel and offered the origin stories of many characters central to the Batman mythos. Now, the showrunner for HBO Max's Gotham PD Joe Barton is addressing the comparison between the two series. On Twitter, Barton was asked how different Gotham PD will be as compared to