Legends is set to once again prove that it’s The CW’s most gloriously irreverent DC series, and Sky One has now set a premiere air date for season 4 so we won’t miss out on all the lunacy here in the UK – pop it in your diary for Wednesday October 31st at 8pm.
You can take a look at a brand new trailer for season 4 below…
More as we get it.
Legends Of Tomorrow season 4 release date
Legends Of Tomorrow will return for season 4 on 22nd October in the US on The CW. Sky One will join the party on Wednesday October 31st at 8pm in the UK. We’ll update this with more info as soon as we have it.
Flip over to page 2 now, if you like, for more on season 4’s story and cast changes…
Legends Of Tomorrow season 4 story
Here’s the official season 4 synopsis for you:
After defeating the demon Mallus by cuddling him to death with a giant stuffed animal named Beebo, the Legends are ready to ease off the gas. Sara (Caity Lotz) and her team join Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan) and the Time Bureau to help clean up the last few remaining anachronisms. The job seems straightforward enough until Constantine (Matt Ryan) arrives to inform them that, in solving one major problem, they have created another, much larger one. When the Legends let time crumble in order to release and defeat Mallus, the barrier between worlds softened. History is now infected with “Fugitives” – magical creatures from myths, fairytales, and legends. Having been expelled throughout time by people like Constantine, these Fugitives are now returning to our world in droves and making a real mess of things. As the Time Bureau is distrustful of and ill-equipped to deal with magic, the Legends must team up with everyone’s favourite demonologist to set history back on track.
Sara and Constantine are joined by compassionate inventor Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), hotheaded ex-con Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell), rebellious totem-bearer Zari (Tala Ashe), and heartbroken historian-turned-superhero Nate (Nick Zano) as they set out to save the world – and their legacy. It’s the familiar fun of the Legends time-travelling across historical events and encountering famous figures with an added shot of magical craziness!
Recent comments from showrunner Phil Klemmer lay out a troubled time ahead for the Legends – it looks like season 4 will see the crew of the Waverider put through the wringer, as tables turn within our core group.
“I think we’re ready to maybe have some real betrayal within the ranks of the Legends,” Klemmer told TV Line recently. “Things have gotten really tranquil, so next season I do want the Legends to sort of turn against their own. And I don’t want these to be cosmetic plot shifts, I want them to have consequences that will be lasting and that will affect the DNA of the show.”
Klemmer will be handling solo showrunner duties when Legends Of Tomorrow returns for its fourth season, and it seems that he has some pretty serious plans to shake things up now that the buck stops with him.
Legends Of Tomorrow season 4 cast
Sometimes, fan patience pays off. It remains one of the great injustices of our current golden age of superhero television that Constantine only ran for one season on NBC. Despite a fan campaign to make a second season happen, it wasn’t to be. But you simply do not waste a ridiculously perfect piece of casting like Matt Ryan as John Constantine. Ryan’s Constantine has since returned to work his dark magic on Arrow and Legends Of Tomorrow, and he has his own animated series, too!
But now that Legends Of Tomorrow season 4 has been confirmed by the CW, Matt Ryan’s John Constantine won’t be relegated to occasional guest star status anymore, he’ll be on board the Waverider every week, as there are plans to make Matt Ryan a series regular.
Adding Constantine to the team makes perfect sense. Legends has long been a kind of ‘island of misfit toys’ for cool, slightly displaced characters, and it’s known for swapping up its roster with abandon. This season in particular has been a busy one in that regard. But the current season’s focus on magic and demons has meant that we’ve heard Constantine’s name come up several times, even when he hasn’t actually shown up. If he’s going to be around for every adventure next season, that might be a sign they’re considering other stories where having a magic specialist around will be necessary.
Keiynan Lonsdale – who only joined the Waverider crew in season 3, won’t be back as a series regular when the Legends return.
Lonsdale’s character Wally West, a.k.a. Kid Flash, will definitely appear on the first episode of sibling show The Flash in season 5 later this year, but what will happen to him after that, we don’t know (and if there were story elements or plot revelations at play, we would of course make sure there were a spoiler warning for you!). Indeed, Lonsdale could certainly flit between Arrowverse shows on The CW for some time to come, as fellow guest star Wentworth Miller (Captain Cold) has until very recently.
Season 4 will definitely see the rise of villain Nora Darhk in one capacity – actress Courtney Ford has been made a series regular.
Deadline confirmed that Ford, who is the real life wife of star Brandon Routh, will be back to play the evil daughter of villain Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), and will no doubt have new and delicious schemes in play to terrorise the Waverider crew, but will Ray continue to be very slightly into it? That’s the question.
