The stage was crowded at today’s press tour panel for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The CW’s latest spinoff in the Arrow universe. All ten members of the main cast were there, as well as five of the show’s executive producers and DC Comics CCO Geoff Johns. But, like the show itself, the panel made keeping that many balls in the air look easy.
Despite concerns that there will eventually be a saturation point for superhero shows on TV, Johns said that as long as the shows are all exploring something different and “as long as they’re all great shows,” that day will never come. Superheroes are metaphors, and in the case of Legends, what they’re exploring that separates this show from its parent shows, Arrow and The Flash, is destiny. “You can see it right there in the pilot,” Johns said. “It’s all about, ‘Is my life going to matter?'”
Just a few years ago, it would have been impossible to do a show this effects-heavy, and the producers heap praise on Encore Post, who handle the show’s visual effects. “Supergirl, she just has to fly,” said Guggenheim. “And Flash just has to run. Arrow, he has to shoot CG arrows. This, you’ve got a guy who shoots a heat gun, a cold gun, two people who fly, two people with sets of computer-generated wings, a guy in a suit that shrinks down and flies. Firestorm! The number of characters and different types of effects that have to be done every single episode? That alone puts it on a different level in terms of degree of difficulty.”
Despite concerns that there will eventually be a saturation point for superhero shows on TV, Johns said that as long as the shows are all exploring something different and “as long as they’re all great shows,” that day will never come. Superheroes are metaphors, and in the case of Legends, what they’re exploring that separates this show from its parent shows, Arrow and The Flash, is destiny. “You can see it right there in the pilot,” Johns said. “It’s all about, ‘Is my life going to matter?'”
Just a few years ago, it would have been impossible to do a show this effects-heavy, and the producers heap praise on Encore Post, who handle the show’s visual effects. “Supergirl, she just has to fly,” said Guggenheim. “And Flash just has to run. Arrow, he has to shoot CG arrows. This, you’ve got a guy who shoots a heat gun, a cold gun, two people who fly, two people with sets of computer-generated wings, a guy in a suit that shrinks down and flies. Firestorm! The number of characters and different types of effects that have to be done every single episode? That alone puts it on a different level in terms of degree of difficulty.”
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