What’s been fun for us is pairing up different actors and characters to see what we end up with. Guggenheim: We always say that the show may have spectacle and production value, but it really lives in the interactions between our various characters. What are we going to see from that dynamic moving forward? There was some very surprising chemistry between Sara (Caity Lotz), Leonard and Mick in that bar fight scene, but especially Sara and Leonard. The Seven Biggest Reveals From 'Arrow's' Season 4B Trailer They also have selfish interests and they’re not the holier-than-thou organization they pretend to be in the pilot. It’s not quite as simple as Rip broke the rules and they want to stop him. It seems so monolithic and cold and calculating in the pilot, so we’re going to play with the notion that there are factions within it. Klemmer: We want to uncover factions within the Time Masters as the season goes on. That’s going to prove to be challenging as well. And here are our characters, trying to swim against that tide. Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction. So Kronos and the Time Masters are one, and another is, as Rip points out, is time itself. One of the things we wanted to do is, recognizing that there’s a potential for repetition if you just have singular bad guy in Vandal Savage, we very intentionally wanted to create other organic antagonists for our characters to go up against. That’s going to continue to be a thing throughout the series. He’s been dispatched by the Time Masters to hunt our Legends down. Guggenheim: I would say a significant antagonist, certainly in the form of Kronos. So yes, he’s a rogue Time Master and he’s breaking all the rules, but he’s doing it for all the right, relatable reasons.īecause of that, how much of an antagonist will the Time Masters become against the Legends team? Rip’s original sin is to have loved and fallen in love and had a family. It’s almost like priesthood where they’re supposed to be celibate. Time Masters are these cold, calculating, detached people who are the custodians of time and don’t have any emotional vested interest in the course of history or the affairs of humankind. We’ll deal with that throughout the whole series. The fact that he is an enigma and doesn’t have a backstory from Flash or Arrow, we wanted to humanize him from the outset. Klemmer: We wanted Rip to be something more than just the glue that held the team together. As we learned on Arrow, these shows traffic in the currency of secrets of the characters. As far as Rip being a rogue Time Master, that struck us as an enormous amount of fun, especially since that was a secret he could then keep from the rest of the team. It raises the stakes by making it personal. You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another. That’s what we discovered with Arrow and The Flash. Guggenheim: I believe that was Greg ’s pitch. The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Legends of Tomorrow showrunners Marc Guggenheim and Phil Klemmer about where the team goes from here in light of all these revelations. And Vandal has a nuclear bomb in his possession. Carter (Falk Hentschel) and Kendra (Ciara Renee) have just lost the son they recently discovered thanks to a Time Master bounty hunter named Kronos hunting down Rip and his team. So now that the Legends know the truth, they’re going to continue their quest with Rip - although with a little less trust and respect for their leader now that his lies have been exposed. So when Vandal Savage killed his wife and son, he was motivated by selfish reasons to go back in time and stop him, with the help of a team. Time Masters are supposed to remain impartial to the timeline, but Rip created a family. Turns out he broke the rules by falling in love and having a son of his own. And the lies didn’t stop there: Rip also was on the run from the organization of Time Masters he used to work for.
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