One week from tomorrow, The CW will expand their superhero lineup even further with the addition of a brand new show,DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. This show features characters from bothArrowandThe Flash, plus new heroes and villains, so you should expect plenty of crossover elements from all three shows. Case in point, The CW just released a new trailer that sheds some new light on Ray Palmer, a.k.a.Atom(Brandon Routh). This footage also shows Atom conversing withArrow(Stephen Amell) himself, and Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) fromThe Flash, who ponders why billionaires become superheroes.
Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogueRip Hunteris tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat - one in which not only the planet is at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known? InDC’s Legends of Tomorrow, when heroes alone are not enough, the world needs legends.
DC’s Legends of TomorrowstarsVictor Garberas Dr. Martin Stein,Brandon Routhas Atom,Arthur Darvillas Rip Hunter,Caity Lotzas White Canary, Ciara Renee as Hawkgirl,Falk Hentschelas Hawkman andFranz Dramehas Jay Jackson, withDominic Purcellas Heat Wave andWentworth Milleras Captain Cold. Based on the characters fromDC Comics,DC’s Legends of Tomorrowis from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producersGreg Berlanti,Marc Guggenheim,Andrew Kreisberg, Phil Klemmer,Chris Fedakand Sarah Schechter serve as executive producers. Glenn Winter directed the pilot episode, from a script byGreg Berlanti,Marc Guggenheim,Andrew Kreisberg.
Aside from the show’s main villain, Vandal Savage (Casper Crump), other new characters who will debut on the show includeStephanie Corneliussenas theDC Comicscharacter Valentina Vostok, a.k.a. Negative Woman, and another report from October revealed that the show is casting for Connor Hawke. In theArrowcomic books, Connor Hawke is Oliver Queen’s son, although that aspect of the comics will be discarded for the TV version. We’ll surely find out more about this show next week, just before the series premiere, thanks to a new special.
The CW is airing a new special entitledDC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Their Time Is Now on Tuesday, January 19 at 9 PM ET. The special features show clips and interviews from Legends,ArrowandThe Flashexecutive producersGreg Berlanti,Marc Guggenheim,Andrew Kreisberg, Phil Klemmer and Wendy Mericle. Their Time Is Now introduces viewers to the immortal madman Vandal Savage, the time master Rip Hunter, and the motley band of heroes and rogues he assembles to try to save the future of humanity: Hawkman, Hawkgirl, White Canary, The Atom, Firestorm, Captain Cold, and Heat Wave. Take a look at the latest trailer forDC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and stay tuned for more as we get closer to the January 21 premiere date.
