Official Synopsis For LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, The CW's ARROW/FLASH Spin-Off Series

We've written a little about The CW's upcoming spin-off of Arrow and The Flash, and now the network has finally given the show an official greenlight and committed to a title: Legends of Tomorrow. It's a little cheesy, but it makes more sense when you know that time traveler Rip Hunter is going to play a major part in the series. Coming Soon has the official synopsis:

When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat – one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

The Atom (Brandon Routh), presumably Black Canary (Caity Lotz), Hawkgirl (Ciara Renée), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell), Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill), half of Firestorm (Victor Garber), and Jay Jackson (Franz Drameh) will lead the charge against evil.

I like that they're upping the stakes from simply protecting a city or even our universe to all of time itself. No pressure or anything, guys. This should allow the writers to tell some pretty far-out stories that the more grounded superhero shows wouldn't be able to, so this could be a nice alternative to the other shows if it has a totally different tone.

Will you be watching?