The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow has expanded the universe of the series for season two to include new good guys and bad guys who’ll be a part of the comic book-inspired sci-fi action show. Per Warner Bros. Television’s official announcement, Justice Society of America members who’ve yet to be cast will be joining Rex Tyler aka Hourman (Patrick J. Adams) in season two. Adams appeared in the season one finale and in season two Obsidian, Stargirl, and Dr. Mid-Nite will be putting in appearances.
Legends of Tomorrow‘s heroes will be facing off against a very familiar group of characters who make up the Legion of Doom. Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman), Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough), the Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher), and Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) are confirmed for the new season debuting on October 13, 2016. Letscher played Reverse-Flash/Eobard Thawne on The Flash and will now be a series regular on Legends of Tomorrow. Miller and Barrowman will be appearing in multiple episodes, and McDonough signed on in a recurring role.
“For season two of Legends, we decided that the perfect antagonist for TV’s first-ever team of Super Heroes would be TV’s first-ever team of Super-Villains, recruited from the ranks of Arrow and The Flash’s deadliest adversaries. Being huge fans of the Challenge of the Superfriends, we’ve come to call this group our ‘Legion of Doom,’” said executive producer Marc Guggenheim.
Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless star in ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ (Photo @ Starz Entertainment, LLC)
Starz is set to premiere the second season of Ash vs Evil Dead starring Bruce Campbell on September 23, 2016, and the new season of the horror series based on the popular Evil Dead films will find Ash (Campbell) heading home to protect his family. Lee Majors joins the cast to play Ash’s dad and in our interview at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con, Campbell talked about having Majors on the series, what fans can expect from the second season, and how it feels to be able to latch onto Ash’s chainsaw for a weekly series instead of waiting years between reprising the role in feature films.
Bruce Campbell Interview:
Bruce Campbell: “What’s the buzz, fuzz?”
You look very dapper today.
Bruce Campbell: “This is the Super Bowl of Comic-Cons. If you’re ever gonna do it, this would be it.”
Every time you played Ash for a movie, you’d have three or four months of shooting and then years before the next one.
Bruce Campbell: “Decades. We did one in the ‘70s, one in the ‘80s and one in the ‘90s and then we skipped a whole decade.”
Doing two seasons in a row, spending more time with Ash than ever, have you gotten to know him better?
Bruce Campbell: “Oh, it’s awesome. I wish we could’ve done this a long time ago because that’s the only way you can get to inhabit a character. It’s not making a movie every decade. It’s doing him every day for weeks and weeks and weeks, season after season. I hope we get five seasons out of this because there’s so much I feel like we can do with the character.”
How much are you opening the world for season two?
Bruce Campbell: “Well, this season it gets personal. Ash has to go back home. The Evil Dead is like the mafia, they hit you where you live. They go after your family. So he’s gonna go clean up his town of Elk Grove, Michigan. Which is why we’re introducing the character of Ash’s father, Brock Williams played by the great Lee Major and Ash’s high school buddy Chet Kaminski played by Ted Raimi. Ted plays an idiot and he’s so good at it. I always use Ted because that way my acting looks subtle.”
How cool is it to have Lee Majors coming in as your father?
Bruce Campbell: “Nothing cooler. It’s the coolest of the cool. I don’t believe in luck but we got lucky getting him. Between Lucy Lawless and Lee Majors, what else do you need?”
Bruce Campbell.
Bruce Campbell: “Well, you already got me. I’m not going anywhere.”
Evil Ash seemed darker than the movie incarnations of Evil Ash.
Bruce Campbell: “Darkness has many shades.”
It was evil with no humor behind it.
Bruce Campbell: “No, because in the show we do have to treat the horror seriously. Weird sh*t’s going to happen. Before long, it’ll all go crazy on you but we have to treat the horror as real because otherwise it’s just camp. Then you’ve got a whole different show. That’s the fine line we’ve always rode. The horror is real but there’s comedy too.”
Do you think Ash will ever actually find happiness?
Bruce Campbell: “Why does he have to? He’s God’s tormented character. The audience would get bored if he did. The beginning of this first episode back is as happy as he’s going to get. You go, is that it? It’s going to be Groundhog Day all the time? How much beer can you drink? The answer is a lot but Ash is the chosen one. He’s actually more than that. He’s the average schmoe but he is foretold in the Book of the Dead. So there’s more to Ash than meets the eye. His job isn’t necessarily to be the guy lying on the lounge chair. His job is to be the guy to save the world.”
Can you top the amount of blood from the first season?
Bruce Campbell: “I think we did. Because there’s more characters to get it. Lee Majors had his first experience with blood and he’s like, ‘What the hell is this?’ You can’t predict what it’s going to be like if you’ve never done it before. I know what it’s like to get slimed so it was a big eye opener. So yeah, we had more characters, more opportunities to bloody them all, so we did.”
You already knew you had a season two before season one aired.
Bruce Campbell: “Yeah, nice trick, huh? That’s how good we are, man.”
Does it take some pressure off of season two?
Bruce Campbell: “No, not really. No, no, it’s worse actually because now there are expectations. It’s one thing to put out a show for the very first time. You close your eyes and go, ‘Okay, I hope you like it.’ You put it out and it was very well received. The fans were very nice to us and the critics were pretty nice to us too which is shocking because the Evil Dead movies don’t always get good reviews. So that was the big leap but now season two, they’re like arms crossed going, ‘Whaddaya got?’ Meaning, is it worthy of a show? Do you have enough story that you can tell? Where are you gonna go with it? Do I like the way you’re going with it? Do I like the characters you’re adding or how they’re changing? That remains to be seen but I think it’s a strong episode. I tore my hamstring. We worked our butts off this season so if you don’t like it, screw all y’all.”
Does the focus remain on more seasons of the show before considering another movie?
Bruce Campbell: “One feeds the other. The movies were dead. Now the TV show comes back, the movies come back to life. It’s funny how that works.”
Dan Stevens stars in ‘Legion’ (Photo Credit: Chris Large-FX)
FX’s sci-fi drama Legion released its first trippy trailer featuring Dan Stevens at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con. The series, which is a collaboration between FX and Marvel, is part of the X-Men universe and hails from Fargo‘s creator Noah Hawley. In addition to Stevens (soon to be seen in Beauty and the Beast), Legion stars Rachel Keller (Fargo), Jean Smart (Fargo), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Jeremie Harris (A Walk Among the Tombstones), Amber Midthunder (Hell or High Water), Katie Aselton (The League), and Bill Irwin (Interstellar). Hawley, Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory, and John Cameron executive produce. FX hasn’t announced a premiere date other than to say it will arrive in early 2017.
The Plot:Legion follows David Haller, a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and visions might be real.
The first minute of the official trailer for Warner Bros Pictures’ King Arthur: Legend of the Sword confirms this is a King Arthur movie unlike any other. It’s also obvious from that first minute that this is a Guy Ritchie action film. Sons of Anarchy‘s Charlie Hunnam stars alongside Game of Thrones‘ Aidan Gillen and Michael McElhatton as well as Jude Law, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Eric Bana, and Djimon Hounsou. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword opens in theaters on March 24, 2017.
The Plot: The bold new story introduces a streetwise young Arthur who runs the back alleys of Londonium with his gang, unaware of the life he was born for until he grasps hold of the sword Excalibur—and with it, his future. Instantly challenged by the power of Excalibur, Arthur is forced to make some hard choices. Throwing in with the Resistance and a mysterious young woman named Guinevere, he must learn to master the sword, face down his demons and unite the people to defeat the tyrant Vortigern, who stole his crown and murdered his parents, and become King.
Watch the King Arthur: Legend of the Sword trailer:
In support of Doctor Strange‘s standing room only panel at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con, Disney and Marvel released another trailer for the sci-fi film starring Benedict Cumberbatch. They also unveiled a brand new poster for the comic book-inspired film. Directed by Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Deliver Us From Evil), Doctor Strange also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Rachel McAdams, Michael Stuhlbarg, Scott Adkins, Amy Landecker, and Mads Mikkelsen. Doctor Strange opens in theaters on Friday, November 4, 2016.
The Plot:Doctor Strange follows the story of neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a horrific car accident, discovers the hidden world of magic and alternate dimensions.
Starz brought the cast of American Gods to the San Diego Comic-Con where they not only debuted the first official trailer for the drama series but also announced Kristin Chenoweth has joined the cast as Easter. Easter (once known as Ostara), is the goddess of spring who “still embraces the jelly beans and chocolate bunnies associated with the holiday that bears her name, in an effort to stay relevant.”
Chenoweth put in a surprise appearance at Comic-Con where she joined her fellow cast members Ricky Whittle (Shadow Moon), Ian McShane (Mr. Wednesday), Pablo Schreiber (Mad Sweeney), Yetide Badaki (Bilquis), and Bruce Langley (Technical Boy) to talk about the series which is based on the book by Neil Gaiman.
Hannibal‘s Bryan Fuller and Heroes‘ Michael Green are the series’ writers and showrunners. They also executive produce the series along with Gaiman, Craig Cegielski, Stefanie Berk, and director David Slade.
The Plot:American Gods has been translated into over 30 languages and earned numerous accolades including Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards for Best Novel. The plot posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society’s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs. Its protagonist, Shadow Moon, is an ex-con who becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to Mr. Wednesday, a conman but in reality one of the older gods, on a cross-country mission to gather his forces in preparation to battle the new deities.
‘The Walking Dead’ season 7 key part (Photo: Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC)
The Walking Dead fans need to mark Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 9pm ET/PT on their calendars as AMC confirmed today that’s when season seven will premiere. The announcement was made during The Walking Dead panel at the San Diego Comic Con which featured pretty much everyone from the cast – Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Chandler Riggs, Michael Cudlitz, Sonequa Martin-Green, Christian Serratos, Ross Marquand, and Josh McDermitt – as well as Executive Producer and Showrunner Scott M. Gimple, Executive Producer Robert Kirkman, Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd, Executive Producer, Director and Special Effects Make-up Supervisor Greg Nicotero, and Executive Producer David Alpert. The season seven trailer made its debut during the panel but don’t worry – there aren’t any real spoilers in the three minute teaser.
Season seven will consist of 16 one-hour episodes, half of which will air beginning in October with the second half of the season kicking off in February 2017.
The Plot: Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics, The Walking Dead reigns as television’s most watched drama for adults 18-49 for the last four years. The Walking Dead tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse, and follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, who travel in search of a safe and secure home.
Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig) and Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) in ‘Vikings’ (Photo by Jonathan Hession | HISTORY)
Following its premiere at the San Diego Comic Con, History brought the trailer for the second half of Vikings season four online for those who weren’t lucky enough to be in San Diego at the sold-out convention to check out. The trailer was presented during the Vikings panel on July 22, 2016 with cast members Travis Fimmel (“Ragnar”), Katheryn Winnick (“Lagertha”), Clive Standen (“Rollo”), Alexander Ludwig (“Bjorn”), and Gustaf Skarsgard (“Floki”) joining series creator/writer Michael Hirst to discuss what’s in store on the popular series.
Vikings season four part two will kick off this fall and will consist of 10 brand new one-hour episodes, with creator Michael Hirst promising there are big changes in store for every character. The trailer reveals Ragnar’s return to Kattegat and has the Seer telling Bjorn to be ready for more tragedy and death, a fairly obvious observation that you don’t have to be the Seer to foresee in the future of our favorite Vikings.
Mike Colter stars in ‘Luke Cage’ (Photo Credit: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix)
Netflix used the San Diego Comic Con to launch the teaser trailer for season one of Marvel’s Luke Cage, bringing cast members Mike Colter, Alfre Woodard, Mahershala Ali, Theo Rossi, Simone Missick, and Frank Whaley to the Con to discuss the show’s first season. The cast joined executive producer Cheo Hodari Coker to introduce the never before seen trailer for the series which is set to debut on September 30, 2016 at 12:01am PT.
Netflix’s panel also included the announcement of a third season for Daredevil as well as an appearance by Jon Bernthal who stars as Frank Castle in the upcoming Marvel’s The Punisher series. (Bernthal appeared in season two of Daredevil.) Finn Jones also appeared via video to show off a first look at Marvel’s Iron Fist, and Netflix’s Marvel’s The Defenders made its debut.
The Marvel’s Luke Cage Plot: After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage (Mike Colter) becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City. But he is soon pulled out of the shadows and must fight a battle for the heart of his city – forcing him to confront a past he had tried to bury. Mike Colter plays the charismatic lead character, Luke Cage and is joined by Mahershala Ali (Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes), Alfre Woodard (Mariah Dillard), Simone Missick (Misty Knight), Theo Rossi (Shades), Frank Whaley (Rafael Scarfe) and Rosario Dawson (Claire Temple).
Luke Kleintank and Alexa Davalos star in Amazon Video’s ‘The Man in the High Castle’
Amazon debuted the first trailer for season two of The Man in the High Castle at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con, with executive producer Ridley Scott supplying the introduction to the new season’s teaser video. The series is based on the novel by Philip K. Dick and stars DJ Qualls, Alexa Davalos, Luke Kleintank, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Rupert Evans, and Bella Heathcote. Season one of the critically acclaimed drama is available now on Amazon Prime and season two is currently in production.
The Plot: Based on Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning 1962 alternate history novel, one-hour drama series The Man in the High Castle explores what would have happened if the Allied Powers had lost World War II. While Germany controls much of the East Coast and Japan controls the West Coast, the Rocky Mountains have become a “neutral zone”—and ground zero for a rebellion, led by a mysterious figure known only as “the Man in the High Castle.” Some citizens struggle against the fear, oppression and inequality—others accept their lives, as compromised and unfulfilling as they might be. But after a series of enigmatic films surface depicting a world vastly different from their own, some begin to question the very nature of their reality.
