Last night,DC Comicsfans got a special glimpse at the new seriesDC’s Legends of Tomorrowwith a half-hour special that debuted just after the midseason premiere ofThe Flash. While we get ready for the show to debut tomorrow,The CW Networkhas released two new trailers and a preview for the series premiere, airing Thursday, January 21 at 8 PM ET on The CW. This footage features this unique collections of heroes, villains and misfits joining forces as a team of time-travelling legends, as they go back to the 1970s.
InDC’s Legends of Tomorrow, when heroes alone are not enough, the world needs legends. 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? We see in this preview that this group was brought together to stop Vandal Savage, who is in danger of taking over the whole world in the year 2166, the year Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) comes from.
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.
The show’s main villain is Vandal Savage (Casper Crump), who fans first saw in theArrowandThe Flashcrossover event that aired earlier this month on The CW. 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.
The series is executive produced byGreg Berlanti,Marc Guggenheim,Andrew Kreisberg, Phil Klemmer and Wendy Mericle, who all work on the network’sArrowandThe Flashas well. Do you thinkDC’s Legends of Tomorrowcan be as big of a hit as bothArrowandThe Flash? Chime in with your thoughts after checking out these new videos, and be sure to tune in tomorrow whenDC’s Legends of Tomorrowdebuts.
