The CW Television Network has picked up “Legends of Tomorrow”, a spinoff series from DC’s “Arrow” and “The Flash“.
Sources stated that the project was picked up sight unseen and the pilot hasn’t been shot yet.
Source: moviepilot
The series features multiple characters from “Arrow” and “The Flash”. Brandon Routh and Caity Lotz from “Arrow” will return to reprise their respective roles, alongside Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, and Victor Garber from “The Flash”.
Routh will be playing The Atom, but it is unknown which role will Lotz take on since her character died in Season 3 of “Arrow”. Purcell will be taking the role as Heat Wave while Miller and Garber will be portraying Captain Cold and Dr. Martin Stein respectively.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Additional cast includes Arthur Davill, Franz Brameh, and Ciarra Renee.
Read the synopsis below:
When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-travelling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat – one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg and Sarah Schechter will be executive producing.
Source: ziffdavisinternational
No specific release date has been announced, but it is expected to reach TV screens around the end of 2015 or the beginning of 2016.
Source: Collider