Legends of Tomorrow Gets a Premiere Date, New Trailer

The latest spin-off in Greg Berlanti's expanding DC television adaptation universe, featuring a time-traveling team of nine heroes, will land Jan. 21.
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The CW's popular DC Comics series Arrow and The Flash have both been in top form so far this season, but there’s a growing minority of fans who are a bit perturbed that so much of the beginning of both seasons has been devoted to setting up the third strand of Greg Berlanti's superhero empire on the network: Legends of Tomorrow. Now there's not much left to set up because the CW has officially announced the show will debut Jan. 21, and has dropped a new full-length trailer for the series.

The premise is there in the first 30 seconds: In 2166, immortal DC staple villain Vandal Savage (Casper Crump) rules the entire world. So time-traveler Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) puts together a team of superheroes to traverse spacetime in order to prevent Savage from seizing total control. The rest of the nine-person team includes: The Atom/Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), White Canary/Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), Hawkman (Falk Hentschel), Hawkgirl (Ciara Renée), and Firestorm—the new team of Martin Stein (Victor Garber) and Jefferson "Jax" Jackson (Franz Drameh). It's a heavy character investment for a second spin-off of Arrow, but putting a bunch of heroes together in a time machine with a specific mission seems to have just the right tone of outright lunacy.

Pause at: 1:32 to see the team back in the 1970s. 1:46 to see that the events of the show won’t work out well for at least one team member. Anywhere else to see some incredible (for TV) fight choreography.

Essential Quote: "If we have the power to change the world, don’t you think we have the power to change our own fate?"—White Canary (Lotz)