Legends’ Wentworth Miller To Depart Main Cast … But Stay In the Berlantiverse
(SPOILERS) Captain Cold will appear in multiple CW shows
Beware of SPOILERS for the May 12 episode of Legends of Tomorrow.
On the heels of last night’s shocking turn for Leonard Snart (Wentworth Miller) — a.k.a. Captain Cold — Deadline reports that actor Wentworth Miller will depart Legends of Tomorrow as a main cast member in its second season, but still stick around producer Greg Berlanti’s DC Comics TV universe.
In a rather unique deal Miller has signed on as a franchise regular with production studio Warner Bros. TV, making him available to appear across Legends, The Flash (where the character originated), Arrow, and potentially even CBS’s Supergirl — which takes place on a parallel Earth, and which just got picked up for a second season that will bring it into the CW fold.
Snart’s apparent death on Legends doesn’t mean that the character is done — not by a long shot — thanks to the magic of time travel, other Earths, and a host of other sci-fi and fantasy plot devices.
Berlanti told Deadline that the character’s arc on Legends was always intended to have an end point, as Miller had sought out a short-term deal when he joined the new series. Legends is aiming toward a significant conceptual reboot for Season Two, which will likely include a number of changes to the main cast line-up of heroes.
Miller is also currently busy shooting FOX’s revival of Prison Break as an event series.
All three of The CW’s DC shows have been renewed for the 2016-2017 season. Supergirl was renewed today and will move to The CW. Since the show carried a high licensing fee for CBS, producers reportedly acted preemptively to trim the show’s operating budget — evidently including a production move from Los Angeles to Vancouver, B.C.
CBS and Warner Bros. are co-owners of The CW.
