DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow” is a show that basically throws the rule book out the window. It constantly switches genres and tone, and in the fall “Legends of Tomorrow” will be returning for season 3.
Much like season 2, season 3 will see a group of villains come together to take on the Legends, but executive producer Phil Klemmer recently teased that the entity putting this group together won’t be human.
“At the head of whatever you want to call our evil organization, it’s different. Last year it was three characters from the three different shows that form this alliance. This is a non-human entity,” executive producer Phil Klemmer told IGN at the 2017 TV Critics’ Association summer press tour. “This is a much more supernatural, spooky vibe this season. We’re dealing more with magic. It’s less real-world bad guys.”
Klemmer declined to reveal the character’s name, but he did say that we will learn about the character in the season premiere, and the new season will be more focused on magic and the occult as opposed to time travel.
Given that the show will focus more on the occult, it would seem that the new season presents a perfect opportunity to insert Constantine into the mix.
Fans have been hoping to see Matt Ryan’s John Constantine appear on DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow” ever since his show was canceled, and we already know it can work as Ryan previously reprised his role in an episode of “Arrow.”
According to IGN, nothing is locked in at this point, but Phil Klemmer did confirm they are actively campaigning for Matt Ryan to appear on the show as John Constantine this season.
DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow” will return for season 3 on Tuesday, October 10.
After the defeat of Eobard Thawne and his equally nefarious Legion of Doom, the Legends face a new threat created by their actions at the end of last season. In revisiting a moment in time that they had already participated in, they have essentially fractured the timeline and created anachronisms – a scattering of people, animals, and objects all across time! Our team must find a way to return all the anachronisms to their original timelines before the time stream falls apart. But before our Legends can jump back into action, Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) and his newly established Time Bureau call their methods into question.
With the Time Bureau effectively the new sheriffs in town, the Legends disband – until Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) discovers one of them in the middle of his well-deserved vacation in Aruba. Seeing this as an opportunity to continue their time traveling heroics, Sara (Caity Lotz) wastes no time in getting the Legends back together. We reunite with billionaire inventor Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), the unconventional historian-turned-superhero Nick Heywood (Nick Zano), and Professor Martin Stein (Victor Garber) and Jefferson “Jax” Jackson (Franz Drameh), who together form the meta-human Firestorm.
Once reunited, the Legends will challenge the Time Bureau’s authority over the timeline and insist that however messy their methods may be, some problems are beyond the Bureau’s capabilities. Some problems can only be fixed by Legends.
