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IndieWire: With the upcoming end of “Arrow” and “Crisis,” have you even been able to sleep in months?He lights up the screen, and he really energizes the actors that he has scenes with. Comic-Con 2019: Heres everything that happened on Day 3 Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News Thea (played by original cast member Willa Holland), for one, seems due for a finale encore, if only. TVLine.com via Yahoo News IndieWire spoke with Marc Guggenheim, “Arrow” and “Legends of Tomorrow” executive producer and “Crisis on Infinite Earths” showrunner, about the impending “Crisis,” from the entire production process to that Nic Cage “joke” tweet to the multiverse’s secret weapon, Beebo.Arrow Boss Hints at Final Seasons Possible Returns: There Are.
But sleep is overrated and I’ll do it when I’m either dead or we’re finished, whichever happens to come first. So yeah, it doesn’t leave a lot of time for sleep, unfortunately. But of course, we’re doing it in this compressed period of time of a space of three to four months. But a quality problem for sure.It’s a total of seven hours of television, which itself is almost as long as the season of a streaming show. It’s been complete insanity. I have not slept very much.
And DC, and they happened to mention that if we wanted to do “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” that would now be available to us.So I would say that it was a gleam in our eye, actually, as early as “Arrow” Season One. And basically it was about a year-and-a-half ago when we were working on last year’s crossover that Greg had had a meeting with the Powers That Be at Warner Bros. To even … we didn’t even know to hope for it, quite frankly. I actually think because it was such a long shot, it wasn’t until we got the approval from DC and Warner Bros.
But you guys made the character work to the point that fans are pretty much okay with that too.Guggenheim: Yeah. But it’s very nice to be able to sort of plant those little seeds and see them unexpectedly sprout over the course of eight seasons.Like with Anatoli, who in the comics is known as KGBeast—we’ve gotten this far now and that never came to fruition. Very, very rarely do we do it with the expectation that we’ll eventually be able to pay off that tease. And most times, we’re doing it just because we think it’s a fun, cool Easter egg or a fun, cool mention. And Lyla Michaels is a major figure in the original comic book “Crisis on Infinite Earths.” So it actually even predates “The Flash” mention by two years.And I think, to sort of get back around to answering your question, it’s kind of indicative of the approach we’ve always taken, which is, we’ve always tried to head fake or nod to as many different corners of the DC Universe as we’ve been allowed to over the years.
Have been very, very, very patient with us.It’s really come a long way since the days of “Smallville,” where The WB didn’t want to lean into the expansiveness of the comic book world. Sometimes not without raising some corporate eyebrows, but for the most part, I think DC and Warner Bros. We’ve nodded to Themyscira, which is the homeland of Wonder Woman. And we’ve been able to actually have Superman on the show. We’ve done clever little winks and nods like a pilot jacket with the name Jordan on it appearing in Coast City, which is a nod to Hal Jordan, Green Lantern.
And we planted several creative flags in last year’s crossover, including casting LaMonica Garrett as The Monitor. It’s like three-quarters of the episode.In terms of the start to finish of production, basically it started a year ago, a year-and-a-half ago, when we knew that “Crisis” was a possibility. And I’ve got to give credit to Salim Akil, Charles Holland, and Lamont Magee at “Black Lightning,” because they really moved heaven and earth to write Cress out, essentially of a week of production, which on a television show is a lot. So they’re basically 3,000 miles away in an entirely different country. But could you go into detail the whole production process—from pre to post-production—for the crossovers? Especially with the added factor of Cress Williams being in on the fun now.Guggenheim: Cress was definitely one of the trickiest pieces because the five shows that you see in the crossover, those shows all shoot in Vancouver, whereas Cress’ show “Black Lightning” films in Atlanta. And just as the shows themselves have evolved, our ambitions have gotten bigger and bigger and bigger.Cress Williams as Black Lightning, “Crisis on Infinite Earths”So at this point, it seems that fans are pretty familiar with and understanding about the annual episodes where cast members have to be written out so they can work on the crossover.
Probably the biggest thing that needed to be done was getting a jumpstart on all the custom costumes that had to be made. Figuring out all those things.Once we did that, we created these beat sheets and synopses and sent them off to our various production teams so that they could start wrapping their arms around the various production challenges. Then we each retreated to our separate writing staffs and broke out the individual episodes scene-by-scene, and reconvened, figured out, “Okay, your beat really should belong in someone else’s episode.” “This scene in hour two really needs to happen in hour three,” and “This thing that’s happening in hour one and hour two, they contradict each other,” or they duplicate each other. And we worked for two weeks refining that scaffolding and coming up with a more detailed set of beats.
And we take all those schedules and we cut the strips into literal strips and we basically are just moving paper around that board or moving strips from one day to another on this big calendar until all the strips are up on the board. We basically shot this over the course of a month. So it represents a huge calendar. For example, “Arrow” was obviously green, “Flash” is red.And then we have a big board, which has been basically bifurcated into squares. And each show is designated by a certain color. And their schedules are basically what we call strips, and each strip represents a scene.
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