Yahoo News Arthur Darvill won't appear in Legends of Tomorrow s4
It's the news we've feared and now it's official: Arthur Darvill won't return to Legends of Tomorrow next season. Like, at all.
Darvill's character Rip Hunter sacrificed his life to save the Legends and stop the monstrous Mallus last season... but this is a show about time-travel, so a comeback wasn't totally off the table.
Until now.
"I believe he's done, for this season," Legends showrunner Phil Klemmer told Digital Spyat San Diego Comic-Con. "But, I mean, Arthur Darvill is the greatest. We've got a terrible habit of killing the greatest people. It's totally stupid."
Klemmer had previously hinted that Rip could still return to the show in future, saying: "Because it's a time travel show, and because we never saw a body, anything is possible. I think Arthur is totally willing to come back and play with us if we have a cool idea."
Darvill started out as a series regular on Legends, before appearing in a recurring capacity in the second and third seasons. The upcoming fourth season will be the first from which he's entirely absent.
Which we can't say we're happy about. After all, every Legends fan knows that Rip and Wally West (Keiynan Lonsdale) singing 'Careless Whisper' at karaoke was the highlight of the last season.
In other Legends news, it was also confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con that the show won't be taking part in the next big ArrowVerse crossover and that actor Tom Wilson (Biff Tannen from Back to the Future!) will be joining the cast as Nate's dad.
The fourth season of Legends of Tomorrow will launch October 22 on The CW in the US. The series airs on Sky One in the UK.
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