Matt Ryan To Play New Character On ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’ Season 7

In basic DC’s Legends of Tomorrow style, the sequence threw out a bizarre swerve of an announcement about Season 7 of the present at their Comedian-Con@Residence panel immediately: star Matt Ryan is saying goodbye to John Constantine, the character he’s performed since 2014; however gained’t be leaving the sequence. As an alternative, in Season 7 he’ll be taking part in a new character named Dr. Gwyn Davies.

“As everybody who loves him is aware of, ultimately, John Constantine will stroll his path alone,” Ryan stated in a launch supplied to Decider. “The time has come for John to half methods with the Legends, and for me to half methods with John. I’m actually excited to be creating this new position on the present and having some enjoyable with it — discovering how this new character suits in and causes some bother for the Legends.”

Ryan first performed the basic DC Comics character on one other community completely, on the cult favourite NBC drama Constantine. After the present’s cancellation, he visitor starred because the character on The CW’s Arrow, hopping networks due to the shared manufacturing firm, Warner Bros. And now that John Constantine was formally a part of The CW’s Arrow-verse, he was once more in a position to pop up first as a recurring character on Season 3 of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, after which within the canon animated sequence Constantine: Metropolis of Demons, after which again to Legends of Tomorrow for Seasons 4 by 6.

That stated, after practically eight years of Constantine, it feels like Ryan is able to transfer on. Within the presently filming Season 7, he’ll play “an eccentric scientist from the early twentieth century who could be the workforce’s solely hope.”

“Whereas John Constantine’s arc on the present is coming to an finish in season six, Matt Ryan’s journey with the Legends will not be over,” showrunner Phill Klemmer teased.

So how will Constantine exit, on the finish of the presently airing Season 6? An prolonged trailer additionally proven off on the panel (you may watch it above) confirmed off a really darkish path the character is heading down, due to his lack of magic, and eventual regaining of it through the untrustworthy Aleister Crowley (voiced by Matt Lucas).

It’s not all gloom and doom within the trailer, although. When Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) and Ava’s (Jes Macallan) marriage ceremony will get interrupted by returning villain Bishop (Raffi Barsoumian), it’s off to an intergalactic bowling competitors, a Clue themed episode with actual stakes, some magic mushrooms and extra weirdness and wildness because the season finishes off its “aliens misplaced in time” arc.

However that — as they are saying — will not be all! The panel additionally introduced that in Season 7, Amy Louise Pemberton, the voice of Gideon, the present’s resident Synthetic Intelligence, might be becoming a member of the present as an actual, flesh-and-blood Gideon, full time. Pemberton has appeared in her human, non-floating head type just a few occasions on the sequence, however this gained’t be a pc projection; for the primary time, she’ll be an actual individual. How and why that occurs will stay secret for the second, after all.

And one final announcement was made as a part of the panel: a 21-track “Mixtape” of the sequence’ most memorable musical moments might be launched on August 20, 2021 on all main platforms. The official album will embrace tracks just like the David Bowie-inspired “House Woman,” the Mr. Rogers-esque “Mr. Parker’s Cul-De-Sac,” that includes Brandon Routh, and far more. You don’t see Arrow releasing a forged album, do you? Do you? You don’t.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow continues to air Sundays at 8/7c on The CW. Try official paintings for the mixtape, beneath:

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