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DC CROSSOVER: How SUPERGIRL, ARROW, THE FLASH & LEGENDS OF TOMORROW Crews in Vancouver Did It

Crisis on Earth-X

Two Earths. Two Nights. Too Many Heroes to Count — Caity Lotz.

4 shows

Almost a month of 13-hour camera days/16-hour work days.

20 superheroes on Waverider set for one sequence.

13 superheroes under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge for one sequence.

Scheduling board. Danielle Panabaker photo.

September 22nd to ….October 20th?

Supergirl – Hour One.

The four-hour crossover event begins with the RSVPs,  the rehearsal dinner and wedding of Barry Allen and Iris West.

Director: Larry Teng.

Big location: downtown Vancouver’s St. Andrew’s Wesley Church, cathedral set in studio and 1133 Melville Street.

Supergirl BTS video.

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The Danvers Sisters

Kara (Melissa Benoist) and Alex (Chyler Leigh) Danvers are the only two guests from Earth 38 who make the journey to Earth One for the wedding. This was Leigh’s first crossover and she was all over it, telling TVLine she’d done “14-hour camera days every single day for three and a half weeks.”

Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) and Alex Danvers team up to fight the Earth-X villains crashing the wedding.

Caity Lotz. She’s a wicked, wicked martial artist – Supergirl fight coordinator Michael Lewinson.

Stunts in stilettos.

Later in her DEO uniform.

Meanwhile, Supergirl battles her Earth-X counterpart Overgirl.

Screenshot.

Arrow – Hour 2.

The Green Arrow (Stephen Anell) and  Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) discover Dark Arrow and Overgirl are their doppelgangers.

Director: James Bamford.

Big locations: company parking lot in Burnaby on Stillwater Drive, inside and on top of downtown Vancouver’s former Canada Post building and in Arrow studio.

Arrow BTS video.

This isn’t your Earth…. Go home. – Green Arrow to Dark Arrow, Overgirl and Reverse Flash.

Crossover squad.

Canada Post building.

The Flash – Hour 3.

Earth-X.

Directed by Dermott Downs.

Big locations — at former Burnaby Youth Detention Centre as Earth-X and in Flash studio.

Paul Blackthorne as his evil Earth-x counterpart commands a firing squad.

Ready, aim…..

Leo Snart from Earth-X saves them.

The Flash BTS video.

Stephen Amell and Wentworth Miller go undercover as Earth-X Nazis.

Wentworth Miller as Leo-X.

Legends of Tomorrow – Hour 4.

Legends of Tomorrow has the biggest gathering of superheroes. On the Waverider and under the Granville Bridge.

Directed by Gregory Smith.

Big locations: Legends of Tomorrow Waverider set and under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge.

Legends of Tomorrow BTS video.

Biggest superheri mashup happened on the Waverider set in studio with about 20 cast members on set. Brandon Routh told TVLine: “You have to have your ducks in a row when doing a crossover because people are coming from four different shows, like, ‘We have Melissa [Benoist] for two hours, and we have Grant [Gustin] for an hour, and we have Stephen [Amell] for 30 seconds!’ So gotta get the shot!”

In costume.

Killer Frost (Caitlin Snow) gets to suit up and fight with the other superheroes in this crossover.

Production wrangled 13 Arrow-verse cast in one location in under an hour for this sequence. Supergirl, Killer Frost and the Ray were CGI-ed in above.

For the Professor.

Dark Arrow versus Green Arrow.

Stunt team. Echo Kellum photo.

Martin Stein’s funeral.

Friends.

Double wedding on Stanley Park seawall.