During the Television Critics Association press tour, Arrowverse executive producer Marc Guggenheim has revealed that Gorilla Grodd is set to make his return – although this time he’ll be appearing in the third season of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, marking his first outing outside of The Flash.
Gorilla Grodd is coming to #LegendsOfTomorrow Season 3. "He works for bananas. It's fantastic," @mguggenheim jokes. #TCA17
— Legends of Tomorrow – DCLegendsTV (@DCLegendsTV) August 2, 2017
Meanwhile, Guggenheim also revealed that Damien Darhk will be returning from the dead to lead a new team of villains: “Damian Darhk is going to be the leader of this group in the way Thawne was sort of the boss last year for the Legion of Doom. This group is distinctly led up by Damien. We have a fun way to bring him back that kind of plays into the season-long mythology.”
And, with the new season said to have “a much more supernatural, spooky vibe”, it was also revealed that the producers are looking to have Matt Ryan reprise his role as John Constantine, although it seems a deal is yet to be closed.
SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 3
After the defeat of Eobard Thawne and his equally nefarious Legion of Doom, the Legends face a new threat created by their actions at the end of last season. In revisiting a moment in time that they had already participated in, they have essentially fractured the timeline and created anachronisms – a scattering of people, animals, and objects all across time! Our team must find a way to return all the anachronisms to their original timelines before the time stream falls apart. But before our Legends can jump back into action, Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) and his newly established Time Bureau call their methods into question. With the Time Bureau effectively the new sheriffs in town, the Legends disband – until Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) discovers one of them in the middle of his well-deserved vacation in Aruba. Seeing this as an opportunity to continue their time travelling heroics, Sara (Caity Lotz) wastes no time in getting the Legends back together. We reunite with billionaire inventor Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), the unconventional historian-turned-superhero Nick Heywood (Nick Zano), and Professor Martin Stein (Victor Garber) and Jefferson ‘Jax’ Jackson (Franz Drameh), who together form the meta-human Firestorm. Once reunited, the Legends will challenge the Time Bureau’s authority over the timeline and insist that however messy their methods may be, some problems are beyond the Bureau’s capabilities. Some problems can only be fixed by Legends.
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 3 is set to premiere on October 10th on The CW.
Originally published August 5, 2017. Updated November 21, 2019.
