With the holiday season now winding down, many fans are looking forward to their favorite TV shows returning from the winter hiatus. The CW’s superhero lineup ofArrowandThe Flashwill be joined by a newDC Comicsseries,Legends of Tomorrow, debuting Thursday, January 21 at 8 P ET. To get fans ready for this highly-anticipated series, the network has released yet anothertrailerwith brand new footage.
In DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, when heroes alone are not enough, the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately attempt 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?
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow starsVictor 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 Tomorrow is 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.
Vandal Savage (Casper Crump), serves as the show’s main villain, who fans first saw in theArrowandThe Flashcrossover event that aired earlier this month on The CW. We reported in September thatStephanie Corneliussenhas signed on to play 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.
Arrowcharacters Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and Black Canary (Katie Cassidy) will be putting in appearances on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. We also know that currentArrowvillainDamien Darhkwill be crossing over to bothThe Flashand DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, but we’ll have to wait and see exactly when these crossovers may happen. The CW kicks off a new night of action and adventure with the highly-anticipated series premiere ofDC’s Legends of Tomorrowon January 21 at 8:00 PM ET/PT, followed by the return of the critically-acclaimed post-apocalyptic dramaThe 100(9:00-10:00pm ET/PT).
