Legends Of Tomorrow showrunner Phil Klemmer, and stars Arthur Darvill (Rip Hunter), Brandon Routh (The Atom), Ciara Renee (Hawkgirl) appeared at this year’s New York Comic-Con on Sunday afternoon for the Warner Bros. Television panel.

Below are some highlights from the panel’s Q&A session.

Q: Tell us about Rip Hunter and what circumstances we meet him?
Darvill: He’s from the future and from one he’s not particularly happy with. He comes back to get this ragtag team of nutcases together.

The moderator asked Routh about Ray Palmer and Renee about Hawkgirl.

Routh: When we meet him in Legends of Tomorrow, we see he has most of those backfiring things figured out. There’s still some resizing. When we find him, A LOT we find most of the things figured out.

Renee: She meets up with Hawkman and he’s helping her. It’s disconcerting when you meet someone and they say they are reincarnated lovers.

Q: Describe the characters.
Klemmer: Leonard Snart – cold, calculating, confident; Heatwave – Psycho, pathological, pyro, maniacal; Stein: arrogant, intelligent, curious about the universe; Jax Jackson (played by Franz Drameh) – skeptical, angry, and not that excited about being part of this team; White Canary – she is haunted, lethal, and searching for some sort of connection.

Q: Who do your characters get along with best, and who do they butt heads with?
Darvill: I don’t know, maybe no one maybe everyone. It changes. Everyone’s really irritating.
Routh: I’d say probably Canary and Hawkgirl just because we haven’t had that much interaction, and Captain Cold and stein have a rivalry aspect going on with him.
Renee: Both are Hawkman, it’s complicated. He annoys the crap out of me, but we have a connection that we can’t explain.

Klemmer: Imagine Vandal savage never attracting the direct attention of the world of mortals and affecting every event. He’s been at all of those moments where history is hanging in the balance. Week to week, we’re trying to intercept him through the ages.

Q: Are we going to see White Canary in go-go boots?
Klemmer: 100% in go-go boots. We have a fabrication room on the ship. You can get your wardrobe to match – 70s, 50s, Cold War, fascism, terrorism, maybe we will see dinosaurs, who knows?

Audience Q&A:

Q: [To Routh] You were my favorite Superman. Truly embodied the geek side of Clark Kent. How different is it to go from Superman to Atom, who is not as together?
Routh: Similarities – Superman is trying to figure how to be human, which is exciting because it’s the same as Ray Palmer geeking out about life.

Q: There are characters facing some challenges, how was it to play that and write that?
Klemmer: Very exciting to write that. Backstories have not been fully fleshed out, which means we have an amazing amount of latitude. We are taking this crazy collection of people that haven’t been together in any universe, time traveling in a spaceship together. It feels very fresh in the best possible way.

Legends Of Tomorrow, which is a spin-off of The Flash and Arrow, is scheduled to premiere on The CW network in January 2016.

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