Crisis On Infinite Earths 2019: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Their Story

tv echo · January 15, 2020

tv echo · January 15, 2020

ETA: Transcribed from the video in this article...

-- MG: "I always felt, and Stephen Amell always felt,that Oliver's journey had to end with his death. Despite everything he'd done, the man he was before he became the Green Arrow, and the man he was when he was the Hood, you know, killing off so many people, we felt that there had to be an end to his journey that ended with, you know, some sort of recompense, but also recompense wrapped with a bit of redemption."

'Crisis on Infinite Earths' introduces a major change for the CW's superhero shows
By Chancellor Agard January 14, 2020
https://ew.com/tv/2020/01/14/crisis-on-infinite-earths-introduces-major-change-cws-superhero-shows/

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“We knew from last year, quite frankly, that we were going to merge and create Earth-CW basically, but Earth-Prime sounds better,” crossover executive producer Marc Guggenheim told reporters at a screening in December. “Even though in the comics, Earth-Prime is our Earth, I just personally like the sound of Earth-Prime. So all of the CW [superhero] shows will be on the same Earth.”
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And Earth-Prime isn’t the only change. The original Crisis on Infinite Earths comic, which the crossover is based on, destroyed the multiverse, leaving only one Earth in existence, but the Arrowverse didn’t follow that example. In the TV crossover, the multiverse was reborn following the Dawn of Time battle, and the Legends episode revealed what those news Earths are:

Earth-2: Home of Stargirl, the forthcoming superhero show that will air on both DC Universe and the CW. Executive produced by Greg Berlanti and showrunner Geoff Johns, the show stars Brec Bassinger as the titular hero and Luke Wilson as her sidekick in a giant robot suit.

Earth-12: This is where 2011’s Green Lantern movie, which crossover executive producers Marc Guggenheim and Greg Berlanti co-wrote, is now set. What a retcon!

Earth-19: Home of the shortlived Swamp Thing series on DC Universe.

Earth-9: Home of DC Universe’s Titans, which was renewed for a third season last year.

Earth-21: Home of DC Universe’s Doom Patrol. Placing Doom Patrol on a separate Earth from Titans helps explain the discrepancies between the show and the “Doom Patrol” episode in Titans season 1.

Earth-96: Brandon Routh’s Man of Steel from Superman Return lives!

Edited January 16, 2020 by tv echo

tv echo · January 15, 2020

Couldn't help noticing 😉 ...

Avengers: Infinity War: (*the Snap wipes out one-half of all living beings in the universe*)
Crisis On Infinite Earths: (*the red anti-matter wave wipes out all living beings in the multi-verse, except for seven Paragons, Oliver, Jim Corrigan and the Anti-Monitor*)

Avengers: Endgame: (*Scott Lang/Ant-Man presumed killed by the Snap but was actually in the Quantum Realm*)
Crisis On Infinite Earths: (*Ezra Miller's Barry Allen/Flash presumed erased by the anti-matter wave with the rest of the multiverse but was actually in the Speed Force?*)

Thor and Heimdall: "Asgard is not a place, it's a people."
Kara Zor-El (to Clark Kent): "Krypton's not just a place, it's a spirit."

Thor: "I wish we had more time." Frigga: "I know. This was a gift."
Lyla/Harbinger (to Oliver Queen) : "Time is a gift."

Tony Stark (to Bruce Banner): "And remember, everyone Thanos snapped away five years ago, we’re just bringing them back to now, today. Don’t change anything from the last five years."
Kara Zor-el (to other Paragons): "We find a way to get all the people that we lost back."

Doctor Strange (to Tony Stark): "If I tell you what happens, it won't happen."
The Monitor (to Oliver Queen): "Not knowing what you're fighting means you will prepare for every possibility."

Tony Stark (prerecorded message): "Part of the journey is the end."
Stephen Amell (tweet with final COIE trailer): "Everything has to have an ending."

Dead Tony Stark (to his daughter): "I love you 3000."
Dying Oliver Queen (to his daughter): "You keep me in your heart, okay?"

Tony Stark: "Do you trust me?" Steve Rogers: "I do."
Spectre Oliver: "Do you trust me?" Barry Allen: "With every cell in my body."

The Grandmaster (to Thor): "Hey, Sparkles, here's the deal. You want to get back to Ass-place, Ass-berg."
Mick Rory (to Black Lightning): "Where you from, Sparkles?"

Thanos: "I am inevitable."
The Anti-Monitor: "I am destiny incarnate. Inexorable and inescapable."

Captain America: "Avengers! Assemble."
Earth-Prime's U.S. President: "Thankfully, we were saved by Earth's greatest heroes... I'm told that this assembly was led by Star City's Oliver Queen, otherwise known as the Green Arrow."

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wingster55 · January 15, 2020

Oliver takes forever to die. Gotta give one long monologue lol.

Starfish35 · January 15, 2020

On 12/15/2019 at 7:06 PM, Starfish35 said:

Final Live+SD ratings for the first three episodes of Crisis (from Spotted Ratings)

Part I - 0.65, 1.668 million.

Part II - 0.60, 1.704 million.

Part III - 0.65, 1.727 million.

Preliminary Final ratings for Parts IV & V: (via Showbuzz Daily)

Edited January 15, 2020 by Starfish35
Updated with final ratings

Primal Slayer · January 15, 2020

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There has been a fairly strict separation of the DC film and television world. How were you able to combine the two with Miller’s cameo?
We were series wrapped on “Arrow,” and we were wrapped on the whole crossover. We were in post and some episodes were locked, and some were soft-locked. I got a phone call from [Warner Bros. boss] Peter Roth saying, “I know you’re locked, but can you put Ezra into the crossover?” And I said, “Yes.” And he said, “How, you’re series wrapped? And you’re wrapped on the crossover.” And I said, “Yeah, I know, but if you’re telling me Ezra Miller can be in the crossover, I can make it happen.” I called Eric Wallace who who is the showrunner of “Flash,” and he called up Grant Gustin — because the one thing that was our only concern was the thought we didn’t want to do it unless Grant was 100 percent on-board with it. And he was. He was incredibly enthusiastic and on-board with it. And then we got on the phone with Ezra Miller and told him the scene I had written and he was completely into it. And we just went. We put together a unit of the “Flash” crew on the “Flash” set [since “Arrow’s” team, which had produced the rest of the hour, was gone]. And much to our surprise, no one noticed Ezra Miller was in Vancouver and no one leaked it from the crew, which we appreciate. So we were able to keep it a surprise.

Combing the multiverse made it so there was only one version of each hero left. Does that mean that Miller’s Flash no longer exists in the DC television world?

I will leave that question to Warner Bros. and DC. They have a wonderful vision for not just Ezra’s Flash, but also the entire DC universe. Jim Lee is the man to talk to.

Oliver ended up dying twice over the course of the crossover. What led to the decision to pull that figurative trigger twice?

The creative behind it was we were faced with the question of how do we surprise the audience when we spoiled the story [a year ago]. The creative conversations were pretty simple. I shared that plan with [executive producer] Greg Berlanti, who was into it. And then I pitched it to Stephen, and Stephen and I have been talking about, for years, that the end of the “Arrow” story is [Oliver’s] death. And we’ve always been on the same page. I think he enjoyed A) the opportunity to play two death scenes and B) the creative sleight of hand in terms of surprising the audience. That’s the other thing that Stephen and I have always agreed on: surprising the audience with the unexpected. So it just made sense. The only lingering question was if we kill off Oliver in [“Arrow”] Season 8 Episode 8, what’s the series finale? And we had a plan for that as well.

The introduction of Earth Prime has led to new changes, like baby Sara’s return, Lex Luthor a hero, etc. How will the shows be handling the reveal of the differences going forward? And for a character like Laurel (Katie Cassidy), whose Earth-1 Laurel was killed and has been playing Earth-2 over the past few years, which version is left?

Certainly the question of which Laurel is left is going to be answered very definitively in [“Arrow’s”] Season 8 Episode 9. But the explanation for the result is given very strong in Episode 10. We went into the crossover knowing we would end with the combing of the Earth, and the reboot of the universe. And the way we sort of saw that there is an opportunity going forward after “Crisis” to slowly reveal all of the weird changes. [“Arrow” showrunner] Beth Schwartz and I went into the crossover knowing in the final episode that we wanted to reveal that baby Sara, who was eliminated in “Flashpoint,” was returned to the timeline. That was very important to us. We had actually considered doing it after “Elseworlds” last year, actually, but thought it had more punch if it was a part of the universal reboot of “Crisis.”

Lex seems to be a wild card, and now he has history with characters from all of the “Arrowverse” shows. What’s next for him?

That’s really a question for the “Supergirl” showrunners. I went to them, I said we’re going to do a reboot, we’re going to combine the universes, anything you want to introduce to your shows, now is a really, really good time. And this was something that [“Supergirl” showrunners] Robert Rovner and Jessica Queller came back with. We were all really excited about it.

The “Arrowverse” characters have long been interconnected, but now they’re all residing on the same Earth. How does that change the stakes for things going forward when the shows have to remain quasi-separate?

I think the Marvel [film] universe deals with it every time[, too,] like in “Iron Man 3” — why doesn’t Tony Stark call upon the Avengers? We’ve had this issue ever since we introduced Flash into the “Arrowverse.” Why doesn’t Oliver call upon his super-powered friends? The way we tend to solve that problem, historically — and I don’t think this will change post-“Crisis” — is when it’s appropriate, story-wise, and doesn’t feel like a departure we’ll mention, “Why don’t you call in [another hero]” and give an explanation.

The very end of the crossover hinted at the introduction of Gleek and the Wonder Twins. Is that something that fans can look forward to on “Legends of Tomorrow,” the next crossover or sometime TBD?

TBD. That was something where we knew we wanted to end with that fun bit. There were early versions of the draft that had the Wonder Twins actually in it. I consider the Wonder Twins kind of a jump ball: We’ll see what show wants to grab it.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/crisis-on-infinite-earths-ezra-miller-cameo-marc-guggenheim-interview-1203467952/

Trini · January 15, 2020

Another featurette, with Guggenheim talking about the cameos/easter eggs:

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I did enjoy a lot of the cameos/easter eggs, but the overall story wasn't strong. But I was already coming into this with low expectations.

From the promos, it looks like there will be ramifications for each show; some more than others, and each will explore it in their own way. It'll be interesting to see what they do on Arrow, since they really emphasized their lead character is DEAD. (Although obviously, he'll be around for the finale somehow.)

Supergirl looks like it will be dealing with one major change; Lex Luthor, and everything related to that.

Batwoman is mostly ignoring COIE, except for changes to Kate/Batwoman herself.

On The Flash, Barry's life is better since he didn't die; but it looks like Team Flash will be dealing with more of the ripple effects of the universe merge than others.

Black Lightning's world is now opened up, but they'll probably stay relatively isolated from everyone else.

Starfish35 · January 15, 2020

From TVLine:

'Crisis on Infinite Earths': Where Was Reverse-Flash? And Iris? Who Is Laurel Now? And More Burning Qs Answered. Gallery with Q&A

Trini · January 15, 2020

1 hour ago, Starfish35 said:

From TVLine:

'Crisis on Infinite Earths': Where Was Reverse-Flash? And Iris? Who Is Laurel Now? And More Burning Qs Answered. Gallery with Q&A

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IS THERE EVEN A HALF OF A HALF OF AN IDEA FOR THE ARROWVERSE’S NEXT CROSSOVER EVENT?

“I would say I have ‘ideas for ideas,’ and I’ve sort of pitched to [The CW CEO] Mark Pedowitz and [executive producer] Greg Berlanti what, if left to my own devices, I would like to see us do. There is a rubric that is semi in place… and both Mark and Greg have signed off on that, and as we go onward, things will get more and more specific. I was emailing Mark just the other day, that we have to all get in a room together to talk about this. We typically do a post mortem about what went right, what went wrong, what did we learn…. We always learn something.”

Can we have someone else in charge of this, please??

Trini · January 16, 2020

Behind-the-scenes feature clip and info from EW:

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The full “Crisis Management” special feature will be available Thursday, Jan. 16, with the digital purchase of a season pass to Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman.

Twilight Man · January 16, 2020

Also from the TVLine article:

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DOES THE NEW MULTIVERSE OLIVER CREATED HAVE DOPPELGANGERS? LIKE, IS THERE A STARGIRL ON MULTIPLE EARTHS OR JUST THE NEW EARTH-2?

“........... I don’t actually want to answer; I would much rather see those answers come in the form of the actual episodes.”

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IS THE LAUREL IN ARROW‘S BACKDOOR PILOT, LIKE, A ‘MERGED COMPOSITE’ OF THE ORIGINAL AND HER EARTH-2 DOPPELGANGER?

“[Episodes] 809 and 810 [aka the series finale airing Jan. 28] will answer that question very definitively. You’ll learn which version of Laurel we have been left with in 809, and you will learn why that is the case in 810.”

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WERE SMALLVILLE‘S VERSION OF CLARK AND LOIS ‘RETURNED’ AFTER CRISIS?

“I absolutely can confirm that they’re still alive, they’re still living their happy ending,” Guggenheim reports. Previously established to have given up his Kryptonian powers to lead a normal life as a family man, “Clark is getting the hero’s ending he deserves.”

My "Philosophy" on the "doppelgangers" is this:

Who says that they were all destroyed or merged???

It has already been confirmed that there are still multiple Supermen, a couple of Flash(s), and The Legends met Stargirl on Earth-Prime back in the 40s, so there is (well, was) more than one of her.

All of the doppelgangers (All the Harrys, all the Laurels, all the...........) could have been (possibly) "recreated". No one is saying that they are all gone. Some of them could still exist. We will just have to watch and wait.

(And I am not just saying that because out of all of the Wells, they keep this jerk.)

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Primal Slayer · January 16, 2020

18 minutes ago, Twilight Man said:

Also from the TVLine article:

My "Philosophy" on the "doppelgangers" is this:

Who says that they were all destroyed or merged???

It has already been confirmed that there are still multiple Supermen, a couple of Flash(s), and The Legends met Stargirl on Earth-Prime back in the 40s, so there is (well, was) more than one of her.

All of the doppelgangers (All the Harrys, all the Laurels, all the...........) could have been (possibly) "recreated". No one is saying that they are all gone. Some of them could still exist. We will just have to watch and wait.

(And I am not just saying that because out of all of the Wells, they keep this jerk.)

Do we know if E1 JSA is still in E-Prime canon? And at the very least E1/38/BL have to had been merged. But we dont know if E2 pre Crisis merged with E1 but how does E2 pre Crisis characters exist if E2 is a brand new Earth with a new history unless it's not..... though he pretty much confirmed that itll be E2 Laurel and not some composite.

Sakura12 · January 16, 2020

So the Paragons only remember the original timeline Earth. They don't know what history they had on this new Earth while all the rest got both memories? Are we going to see them have to adjust to a new reality?

Trini · January 16, 2020

'io9 Roundtable: Excitable Screaming About Crisis on Infinite Earths' Messy, Gleeful Finale'

tv echo · January 16, 2020

'Crisis on Infinite Earths' boss answers burning questions about Earth-Prime, Ezra Miller, and more
By Chancellor Agard January 15, 2020
https://ew.com/tv/2020/01/15/crisis-on-infinite-earths-marc-guggenheim-earth-prime-ezra-miller-mia/

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You tweeted that DC Entertainment CCO/Publisher Jim Lee played a pivotal role in pulling off the Ezra Miller cameo. How did he help it all come together? Also, did any of the people on the film side have input on the contents of the scene?
MARC GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. Basically, I was really working hand-in-hand with Jim. From the moment we found out that this was a possibility, to once we knew Grant Gustin was cool and on board with it and Ezra was on board with it, I would send drafts of the scene to both Jim Lee and [DC Entertainment’s film VP] Adam Schlagman and we would just go back and forth. The trick with the scene is that I didn’t want to and they didn’t want me to do anything that stepped on the toes of the Flashpoint movie that they’re developing. So, we really worked hand-in-hand. Jim was really great about just making sure that all the parties were talking to each other, that nothing was getting stalled. He was a cheerleader when he needed to be, a diplomat when he needed to be. He really stepped up in every way one could do it. His enthusiasm really helped make this possible.

The Crisis comic destroyed the multiverse and condensed everything into a single Earth. Here, though, you guys decided to reboot the entire multiverse. Why did you want to do that?
Basically, I promised DC and all the powers that be that if they just let me destroy all the various different shows in hour 1, I would bring them back in hour 5. I promised that I would put all of the toys back in the toy box once we were finished. For us, the most important status quo change was, of course, combining the CW shows into a single Earth. I like to think that I’m a considerate enough showrunner that I’m not going to destroy the shows of other showrunners.

The Legends hour establishes that the DC Universe show Stargirl takes place on Earth-2 in the new multiverse. What does that mean for all the characters who were on the old Earth-2, specifically with Earth-2 Laurel who is a major character on Arrow? How is her continued existence explained?
Actually, that question is very directly asked by Laurel herself in the Arrow series finale. There’s actually a really, really poignant scene between her and Paul Blackthorne, who plays her dad, that explains that. Speaking to that larger question, one of the things that really excites all of us involved with the Arrowverse shows is that by rebooting the universe, we’ve given ourselves a new central mystery, which is the question: Okay, what does this new universe look like? You got a little bit of a taste of it in hour 5, and going forward we’re going to continue on all the shows to peel the layers of the onion on what that looks like. That’s really, really exciting for all of us.
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“Elseworlds” setup Psycho-Pirate as a player in the coming Crisis, but the character ended up not appearing in the episode. Was there ever a version of the crossover that included him?
No, we actually had Psycho Pirate in various iterations, in various different ways. It’s funny, you go into this type of event thinking, “We’ve got five hours and that’s going to be all the time in the world to tell every single story and include every single character we want to and do every single moment we have in mind.” When you actually start breaking it, you discover wow, there’s still never enough time and there’s never enough space to do all the different ideas. Psycho Pirate was one of those characters that was in and out, and in and out. We basically realized that given the story we were telling, the only reason we were having him in there was because he was in the original comic. When we’re finding ourselves forcing moments just to be faithful to the comic, that stuff is usually the first kind of moments to go, actually, much to chagrin of my Twitter feed.

So far this morning I’ve seen some mixed reaction to the Arrow hour. How did the idea to trap some of the heroes in the Speed Force come about?
Basically, that was something I sort of came up with [when] I was flying back from Prague. Because we knew we were killing off Oliver, I wanted to come up with a conceit…You know, back when we had the writers’ room, we had talked about basically the characters being scattered throughout the Speed Force and Barry would sort of have to hunt for everybody. We didn’t quite have a clear idea as to what that would look like, but what occurred to me was that it was an opportunity to kind of revisit a series “greatest hits” for Oliver, key moments in terms of his relationships. That was very important to all of us involved with the crossover because we knew Oliver was dying at the end of the episode, so it’s a little bit of a “Before you die, your life flashes before your eyes” kind of feel. That was really important to us that we look backwards before Oliver’s death.

You could’ve placed Kate, who is relatively new, in a number of places. How did you decide to drop her into that scene between Oliver and Ray from season 3’s “Suicidal Tendencies”?
I’ll be honest: We kind of knew that Brandon was already contracted to be in that episode, so we knew he would be in that episode. Originally, we were going to do a scene where we revisit Arrow [617] where Oliver and Diggle fight and she would have to break up Oliver and Diggle’s fight. But season 6 was relatively recent and we kind of wanted to go a little further back in the canon and that episode “Suicidal Tendencies” is actually one of my favorite episodes; it’s certainly one of my favorite episodes of season 3 because I just love the tension between Ray and Oliver, and I particularly love it in light of how much all of the shows have evolved and relationships between the characters have evolved. In picking those moments we were looking back to, that kind of idea of showing how far the characters have come really drove a lot of those selections and decisions. Like, let’s show Oliver and Kara really not liking each other. Let’s show Oliver and Ray really not liking each other. It’s fun to illustrate how far everyone has come right before you kill off Oliver.

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tv echo · January 16, 2020

Kinda funny, kinda not...

The Best ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ Tweets
BY: LISSETE LANUZA SÁENZ ON: JANUARY 15, 2020
https://fangirlish.com/2020/01/15/the-best-crisis-on-infinite-earths-tweets/

So, without further ado, here’s a compilation of the best salty/funny tweets about Crisis on Infinite Earths. Laughter is, after all, the best medicine. ....

tv echo · January 16, 2020

Five best and five worst things in Crisis On Infinite Earths
BY ROB CLOUGH JANUARY 15, 2020
https://www.looper.com/183749/best-worst-things-crisis-on-infinite-earths/

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Outstanding performances by Stephen Amell (Green Arrow), Caity Lotz (White Canary), and Grant Gustin (Flash) in particular anchored the crossover, as they made the viewer feel their vulnerability, grief, and hope. Oliver Queen may be dead, but Crisis served as a love letter to the character and the show. The dark nature of Oliver's character always made him an unusual choice as the face of this particular iteration of the DC Universe, but his path to redemption, unshakable faith in his friends, and sheer passion resulted in a man who was easy to love. Oliver's heroism and his friends' reactions to it ultimately made the crossover a rip-roaring success, but there were plenty of awkward and inexplicable moments as well. Let's take a look at the five best and worst moments in Crisis On Infinite Earths.

Best: Oliver Queen as the Spectre
Worst: Losing the Plot(s)
Best: Everything's coming up Luthor!
Worst: Lackluster battles
Best: The Darkest Knight
Worst: The pointless Pariah
Best: Black Lightning's back!
Worst: The Anti-Monitor was an anti-character
Best: Meet the Super Friends!
Worst: Collateral damage?

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tv echo · January 16, 2020

We Have Questions! Marc Guggenheim on the 'Crisis' Cameo & Casualty
Damian Holbrook January 15, 2020
https://www.tvinsider.com/849033/crisis-on-infinite-earths-flash-ezra-miller-oliver-queen-death/

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OK first off, how did the Ezra Miller moment happen?
Marc Guggenheim: Well, I'll tell ya, we were wrapped on production of the crossover, all of the episodes were soft-locked. I'm driving to work one day and I got a phone call from [Warner Bros. head] Peter Roth, who says, "You're not going to believe that I'm asking this and I know you're wrapped, but would it be possible for Ezra Miller to be in the crossover?"

And I said yes, but then he asked how. And I said "I have no earthly idea, you just told me about it, but if you tell me that I have the opportunity to have Ezra Miller in the crossover, I am going to tell you right now, we are going to make it happen." And [EP] Greg Berlanti's first instinct was, and which I agreed with, that it should happen in the Speed Force. Our two Flashes should meet in the Speed Force.

And that that was really helpful because we already had Grant Gustin's Barry traveling through the Speed Force in hour four, which worked great because it was later in the cycle. That was a lot easier to work into the last two hours in the crossover because we had a little bit more time. I knew it would be a two-hander and I knew it'd be like a minute-and-a-half long, so I thought, okay, well we can shoot with The Flash crew ... and so I wrote the scene, and you know, went back and forth with the theatrical [team] about it.

I gotta tell you, the very first thing I did after I got off the phone with Peter Roth was to reach out to Eric Wallace, the Flash showrunner, and he reached out to Grant Gustin. Because the one thing that we knew was, we were not going to do this unless Grant was 100% on board. And he was, he was incredibly excited and incredibly enthusiastic about it.
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And then the second thing we did, of course, was get on the phone with Ezra Miller, who, by the way, could not be more delightful and not be more of a fanboy. I mean, he's quoting Tolkien to us on the phone...his geek cred runs very, very, very deep and he was an absolute delight on set. We just had the best time. I think everyone just really, really enjoyed the whole process and I think it shows on screen.

Oh it was a blast. But then, on the clip side of this fun moment, you go and kill Oliver two episodes before Arrow ends.
That was always the plan. Ever since once the stars aligned and we knew that we were doing Crisis in Arrow's last year, we knew several things. We knew that Oliver had to die in Crisis, as we've been saying for a year now. And we also knew that it had to happen in the Arrow hour of the crossover. So we definitely created some interesting creative challenges for ourselves in terms of what the final two episodes would be, particularly the Arrow series finale. But those challenges really are creative opportunities.
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Cool. For the crossover, you had so many appearances. Did you try to get Krypton's Cameron Cuffe to play Seg-El?
Generally speaking, I don't like to comment on who I tried getting into or didn't. But he was either going to be in a movie or auditioning for a movie and couldn't make the schedule. We'd actually written something and he was going to make an appearance in hour one, the Supergirl hour, appropriately.

Okay. And why not just stick with one universe?
Why restore the multiverse at the end? Because I promised DC Comics that if they let me destroy all their universes in hour one, that I would bring them back. You know, Titans and Doom Patrol and Stargirl, they kind of want to exist. [Laughs]
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I know you have to go, so last question...are there any new heroes on Earth-Prime that we should know about?
Actually, that's the great thing about what we've set up here. There were still a lot more surprises because everything has changed . I think one of the things that make us all really excited about the post-Crisis episodes is that, across all the different shows, we're going to be peeling the layers of that onion. So I don't want to spoil anything, but what we've done is we've created an opportunity for a whole lot of stories across the entire Earth-Prime world.

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tv echo · January 16, 2020

DC characters that were mysteriously missing in Crisis on Infinite Earths
BY CHRIS SIMS JANUARY 15, 2020
https://www.looper.com/183600/dc-characters-that-were-mysteriously-missing-in-crisis-on-infinite-earths/

Felicity Smoak
Kid Flash
Wonder Woman
Anyone from Lois & Clark
The Joker
Psycho-Pirate
Billy Batson
Christopher Chance, The Human Target
Alexander Luthor Jr.

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lemotomato · January 16, 2020

MG addresses why the Crisis headline didn’t get played out in Crisis:

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tv echo · January 17, 2020

Haven't seen this interview published yet at Starry Mag...