Ready to return to The Vampire Diaries world once more? The CW brings Legacies, another spin-off to The Originals and The Vampire Diaries, which means the world will be continuing on now for almost a decade after The Vampire Diaries aired back in 2009.
Legacies is set to follow the daughter of Klaus Mikaelson and Hayley Marshall, Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell) who is descended from vampire, werewolf, and witch bloodlines, which makes her very powerful. It is set two years after the events of The Originals as she attends the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted.
Earlier this month, the cast and showrunners of Legacies attended New York Comic Con and they spoke about what we can except from the series. Showrunner Julie Plec said that Legacies is what she hoped The Vampire Diaries would be. “It’s a world that keeps giving back creatively,” Plec said. “This show is what The Vampire Diaries was before it became TVD. Everything I always thought TVD would be, I was able to circle back and bring to here.”
As for returning characters, we will be seeing Jeremy Gilbert again, who has been working as a hunter, but something will bring them back to Mystic Falls so he can pop up for a few episodes including the third episode. Matt Donovan, or shall we say Sheriff Donovan, may work with Alaric, but if bodies start dropping, he stands with the humans. Zach Roerig who plays Donovan calls his character “frazzled,” “crazy,” and “going a bit insane” trying to manage it all.
Plec also promised that we’ll see more of Mystic Falls, especially with the local high school kids not fond of the Salvatore students. Naturally, this will cause Alaric to take his headmaster duties seriously with tackling these new set of responsibilities.
Being a teenage-focused series, there’s bound to be just a little bit (or a lot) of romance. Alaric’s daughters Lizzie and Josie will be interested in the same guy, but it doesn’t necessarily meant they’ll compete for his love. “It’s less of a love triangle and more of a decision of whether or not Josie wants to pursue it. It’s a co-dependent plight more than anything else,” said Plec. To give it balance, Legacies will be more humorous than The Vampire Diaries with its young supernatural characters. “We wanted to embrace our inner Buffy and have a good time,” Plec explained. This can be noted as the series will follow a monster-of-the-week format to give it more of a procedural feel.
Starring Danielle Rose Russell (The Originals) as Hope Mikaelson, Matthew Davis (The Vampire Diaries) as Alaric Saltzman, Quincy Fouse (The Goldbergs) as MG, Peyton Alex Smith (The Quad) as Rafael, Kaylee Bryant (Santa Clarita Diet) as Josie Saltzman, Jenny Boyd (Hex) as Lizzie Saltzman, and Aria Shahghasemi (The Originals) as Landon Kirby.
Legacies premieres Thursday, Oct. 25 at 9 p.m. ET on The CW.
