How Producers Pulled off Ezra Miller’s Surprise Scene Stealing Flash Cameo on ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’—WATCH

Last night he Arrowverse saved its biggest surprises for the final two hours: TV’s Barry Allen (played by Grant Gustin) met big-screen Barry Allen (played by Ezra Miller).

But that wasn’t all, as the five-hour event concluded with the death of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), whose Green Arrow kicked off the DC franchise on the CW, and the multiverse combined into an Earth Prime.

Arrow — “Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four” — Image Number: AR808c_0021r.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Ezra Miller as Barry Allen and Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Flash — Photo: Jeff Weddell/The CW — © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

According to Variety: Executive producer Marc Guggenheim said, “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.”

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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.”

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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.

 

 

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