THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "ARROW" SEASON EPISODE 409 "Elseworlds" AND MAY CONTAIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE.

If you have not seen the episode, and do not want to see or read possible spoilers about it prior to seeing it, do not continue reading the article or viewing the photos below.
 
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A little different reminder than I usually post. ALL OF THE PHOTOS IN THIS POST are not my property. If you plan to re-post them, you should credit the sources I list below.

As October got under way, so did the annual DC TV universe crossover event that they have done for the past few seasons. This year, only 3 of their 4 shows are taking part, with Legends Of Tomorrow taking a pass on this one. Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl are teaming up for the event.

This past week, they filmed several scenes in Vancou... errrr... I mean CHICAGO???? for the "Arrow" part. You are not hallucinating. The producers for Arrow were eager to get that original Gotham look that has become ingrained in our memory from the Dark Knight era. Christopher Nolan filmed Batman Begins and The Dark Knight movies there, and Arrow wanted to capture that feeling for their portion of the cross over. The episode is being directed by Arrows original stunt coordinator, and frequent director of their episodes now, James Bamford.

As seen in the photos below, there wasnt a lot to be reported. We know that Stephen Amell, Grant Gustin and Melissa Benoist were definitely on set, as they were seen there by photographer Rob Olewinski at cmraseye.com in the photos below. They also got a couple cool photos of the inside of the set as well. But at this time, no other cast were reported there, either thru the fan photos, or behind the scene shots from cast. A lot of people feel new Batwoman Ruby Rose would be there since the scenes are in Gotham, but at this time, there has been no confirmation she was there.

Not to be outdone, a couple photos from fans showed some of the exterior of the set & a meeting with Grant on the set.

First we see a photo with Grant Gustin meeting with twitter user @wtvrashley on the set.

Next is a set of photos from twitter user @xavportela. The most interesting photo, is the mystery actor standing under the GCPD sign.
Could this be a background person? Or a new cast member added for this cross over we haven't heard of yet?

Lastly, a few photos from some twitter user called @StephenAmell ??
Of course many fans have jumped to the most conclusions for the photo he posted with former Arrow star Colin Donnell. While it is not unheard of for Tommy Merlyn to make surprise cameos on Arrow over the years, I suspect based on his attire, he was just there visiting his old cast mate Stephen. Colin is on a show called Chicago Med now, and as you can guess by the title, it films in Chicago.... so this wasn't too out of his way to come by and say hi.

Of course.... perhaps this photo IS of a returning Tommy... or some alternate Tommy. Guess we will all have to wait and see on that one.

The other photos feature Melissa & Grant just sitting around waiting to work at the set one night.

While the last one shows Stephen lurking over Grants shoulder on the set.

Of course, as I stated earlier above these twitter posts, another user got several photos from the set... but only seemed to get a couple with actors in them as he said he was encouraged to leave shortly after. But he probably had the best shots of any non-crew person.
You can see a few of them in the gallery below.
You can also find his whole set on his flickr page.

Also credit to @Filming_Chicago for all the work there keeping people updated on filming. I found all of the links to these photos through their work posting them. You can find a few other set photos from the Arrow shoot there if you dig through their feed. I just didn't have the time to link to every post I could find.

For other Elseworlds set photos from last month on the set of Arrow, Flash & Supergirl, check these posts
HERE  HERE HERE AND HERE

For other behind the scene blog posts of Arrow go HERE
For Arrow autographs gallery go HERE

The Arrowverse event will air on December 9, 10 & 11 on The CW in the U.S.

If you are in Canada, and do NOT have Netflix... You will have to watch it by Unofficial means, because the morons at The CW have given Netflix the rights to air The Flash the next day (it literally does NOT air live ANYWHERE in Canada), while giving Arrow to the Showcase network, and giving Supergirl to the Space network. The former network that carried them, CTV, now has none of them for some reason. So uhhh, I guess good luck with watching it.

THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "ARROW" SEASON EPISODE 409 "Elseworlds" AND MAY CONTAIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE.

If you have not seen the episode, and do not want to see or read possible spoilers about it prior to seeing it, do not continue reading the article or viewing the photos below.
 
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last warning
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A reminder... if you are going to post photos from this on your social media/website INCLUDE THE LINK TO THE POST with it...and don't use all of them. A maximum of FOUR (4) photos please. Plus, PROPERLY credit the source(s).

As October got under way, so did the annual DC TV universe crossover event that they have done for the past few seasons. This year, only 3 of their 4 shows are taking part, with Legends Of Tomorrow taking a pass on this one. Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl are teaming up for the event.

On this particular day, they filmed several scenes in downtown Vancouver for the "Arrow" part of the crossover. I didn't see any of the early day filming as I just plain slept in. But I eventually got up, went down, got an autograph for someone who asked me to get something done for them them other night, from Arrow star Stephen Amell as he headed to his trailer for lunch break. I quite literally spent 3 whole seconds there to get that done.... and with that, I felt like "mission accomplished" and left fully aware they weren't going to be there after lunch.

Little did I know, all they were doing was moving 2 or 3 blocks away. While I was at home, I saw a tweet from Stephen showing him on set with Grant Gustin, Melissa Benoist AND The Flash recurring guest star & the 1990s Flash, John Wesley Shipp. So I raced back out of the house to go find them.

When I got to set, I was shocked at the effort they were going thru to try and cover things up. They even were trying to cover STEPHEN in the Flash suit up... I mean hey, we've already seen him in a promo photo, his own tweets, and 2 days of set photos from The Flash shooting, but sure, yeah, work hard to cover that "spoiler".

As the day went on, I saw them also trying to cover up (thank you twitter user @marysocontrary2 for telling me who it was, as I had him down as "unknown actor when I first published this) Lamonica Garrett who was cast as The Monitor. He was wearing large golden boots, and was wearing a costume of some type. The crew were so put out that I got some photos of him, they had a cop come and talk to me, at length for awhile in hopes of trying to get rid of me. After some early tension between us, we eventually got to chatting for quite a while. I get he had a job to do and had to investigate the claim from the crew, and in the end, he understood I had something I was trying to do as well.

When the shoot ended, Melissa left first, with her security guard and crew member escorting her away past everyone. Shortly after Grant came by, and took photo with the fans there still in his Arrow make up & some of the costume. Then came Stephen. The other night I had asked Stephen if I could get a photo with him in the costume since I already have Grant in The Flash costume, and he said sure.... so today he honoured his promise, and despite having the suit 1/2 off already, re-suited up to take a photo with me, then did so for a couple other fans. John Wesley Shipp then was leaving, and he too after some uncertainty of how to do it (his mask was pulled down in front of his face covering half of it), took photos with fans in his Flash uniform as well.... which for the record looks SO velvety (if that's a word) in person.

After that, I left as it was clear they were finishing for the evening.

For other Elseworlds set photos from last week on the set of Flash & Supergirl, check these posts
HERE  HERE AND HERE

For other behind the scene blog posts of Arrow go HERE
For Arrow autographs gallery go HERE

The Arrowverse event will air on December 9, 10 & 11 on The CW in the U.S.

If you are in Canada, and do NOT have Netflix... You will have to watch it by Unofficial means, because the morons at The CW have given Netflix the rights to air The Flash the next day (it literally does NOT air live ANYWHERE in Canada), while giving Arrow to the Showcase network, and giving Supergirl to the Space network. The former network that carried them, CTV, now has none of them for some reason. So uhhh, I guess good luck with watching it.

UPDATED: October 17, 2018 - Includes links below to two videos.

THIS BLOG POST IS FOR "SUPERGIRL" SEASON EPISODE 409 "Elseworlds" AND MAY CONTAIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE.

If you have not seen the episode, and do not want to see or read possible spoilers about it prior to seeing it, do not continue reading the article or viewing the photos below.
 
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last warning
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A reminder... if you are going to post photos from this on your social media/website INCLUDE THE LINK TO THE POST with it...and don't use all of them. A maximum of FOUR (4) photos please. Plus, PROPERLY credit the source(s).

As October got under way, so did the annual DC TV universe crossover event that they have done for the past few seasons. This year, only 3 of their 4 shows are taking part, with Legends Of Tomorrow taking a pass on this one. Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl are teaming up for the event.

On this particular day, they filmed several scenes in downtown Vancouver for the "Supergirl" part of the crossover. Funny enough, with no main Supergirl cast, and only 1 of the 4 scenes shot even had a Supergirl guest star in it.

Tyler Hoechlin was seen on set, and as Stephen Amell showed in a tweet yesterday, Superman has some new threads for this crossover event. Lucky Stephen was willing to share with you all, because when Tyler was down on ground level (they were filming on top of a parkade) he was more modest about showing off his new duds. Covering up the Man Of Steel outfit as much as he could.I managed a few photos that JUST catches the top of the logo before he covered up even more.

There were two other scenes shot during the day that I didn't get any photos of the cast at. One in Oceanic Plaza, which is used by EVERYONE at some point, they had a scene where a group of spectators were watching something happen in the sky, but no actors were there for it. Then after the roof top scene, was a scene in an alley where they were using a drone to film... something? Whatever it was, it wasn't actors, I can tell you that much.

A bit later I caught up with Stephen and Grant Gustin filming at a different location. While I had seen both of them at the roof top location, it was only for brief moments as they wanted to & from the set from their trailers. Grant once, noticed me there taking photos, and waved, then showed off his new attire, trying to put on a bad boy sneer with it. Of course, since I wasn't given prior warning to his plans, I both missed the wave, and him flaunting the wardrobe off to me, as I had started shooting too late to catch the wave, and ended too soon to catch the showing off in its entirety.

At the other location Stephen, as Oliver Queen. Grant as Barry Allen, both shot a scene where the pair stormed down a street together, running into an apartment building before getting into an altercation inside the building. The pair were both dressed like boyband members pretending to be hoodlums. They had jackets on that said "Trigger Twins" on them. All I could think when I heard the term was how often triggered is used on the internet, and wondered, are Barry & Oliver internet vigilantes? But in all seriousness, the pair shot this series of scenes there, before they took a break. When they went on their break, I left, because I really didn't think anything more special would be happening. Sometimes I get this wrong... this was 1 of those rare occurrences. Barely after I got home & took my shoes off, I got a DM from a twitter user that was there @themyscirabound telling me Stephen showed back up, in full GREEN ARROW wardrobe.

I asked Themyscirabound if she felt like sending me a couple photos to put in this post, and she agreed, so if you use any of the photos of Stephen in the Green Arrow attire below, credit HER.

For other behind the scene blog posts of Arrow go HERE
For Arrow autographs gallery go HERE

The Arrowverse event will air on December 9, 10 & 11 on The CW in the U.S.

If you are in Canada, and do NOT have Netflix... You will have to watch it by Unofficial means, because the morons at The CW have given Netflix the rights to air The Flash the next day (it literally does NOT air live ANYWHERE in Canada), while giving Arrow to the Showcase network, and giving Supergirl to the Space network. The former network that carried them, CTV, now has none of them for some reason. So uhhh, I guess good luck with watching it.

UPDATE: October 17, 2018- Instagram user Joe D'Aquisto allowed me to post the links to his two instagram videos here. They are of Grant & Stephen running down an alley, and Grant dancing around between takes. Enjoy.
Video One
Video Two