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YesteTuesdayday, I caught up with the cast & crew of Superman & Lois shooting a scene in downtown Vancouver, not even 24 hours after I travelled 2 hours each way to see them for this set report. They were filming scenes for the 1st episode of the season, directed by The Flash star Tom Cavanagh. The episode title is "Closer".

The scenes shot for this day included Tyler Hoechlin in a brand new Superman suit. Also on set was Paul Lazenby, who you may remember from season 1 as Atom Man.

The scenes shot were just a continuation of 1 large scene, that saw Atom Man & Superman fighting in the streets of Metropolis. At one point Atom Man goes running at Superman with a cab door, and they fight over the door, before Atom Man hits him with it, and knocks him away, but Superman returns, and Atom Man throws the door on the ground, as Superman runs at him & they apparently go up into the sky.

If you have not yet seen it, I also saw a set the day before far outside the city, that was set in Smallville. You can find that set HERE with the new Jonathan on set.

Video will come later on my YOUTUBE CHANNEL. So check in there for those later on in a few weeks.
Some of the videos will be on the Patreon page for video tier members in the next couple weeks.

Superman & Lois season 3 will airs in 2023 on The CW in the U.S. 

You can now get exclusive first looks on our Patreon ahead of these blog posts.

If you want to see my past behind the scene shots for Superman & Lois go HERE

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Yesterday, I caught up with the cast & crew of Superman & Lois shooting a scene out in Cloverdale (the town where their big Smallville downtown set is.... but this wasnt there, it was a few blocks away). They were filming scenes for the 1st episode of the season, directed by The Flash star Tom Cavanagh. The episode title is "Closer".

The scenes shot for this day included Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane, and the recently recast Jonathan Kent character. Michael Bishop, was filming on set in his first public shoot since getting the role. In the first scene, the pair were driving 1 of the new trucks that the Kent boys grandad gave them at the end of last season down a street in Smallville, with Lois in the passengers side clearly giving him lessons. They had the truck up on a flatbed, so they could film the scene with camera crew propped up on the side of the truck. At 1 point I guess he hits the brake too hard, and they both lunge forward and back. This causes frustration for Jonathan. Eventually, the pair continue on their practice.

A bit later, we see them now outside the Smallville DMV. Now inside a light blue minivan/small truck type vehicle. Jonathan in the drivers seat, with Lois talking to him through the window. Behind Lois is another car driving by, stopping and going a few times. I found it kind of comical that they had to get a stunt driver for this, and his entire job was to drive poorly for the scene. A man then walks up towards the car, it is Jonathans former football coach, played by Danny Wattley. Coach Gaines gets in the passengers seat, Lois leaves, and Jonathan starts up the car. I think at 1 point I heard Danny being given direction to spill more coffee, so I suspect Jonathan causes the vehicle to jerk suddenly as he did while driving with Lois.

The first half of my day there the crew could not have been much nicer. They were asking me if I got anything good, 1 even thanksed me for covering the show, and 1 even was nice enough to tell me the current scene probably wouldnt be too good for photos, but after that they would be filming down the street & you might get better photos there. However, on the back half of it. Two different crew members decided all of a sudden LONG AFTER I had already got shots of those on set, they were going to try & stop me from getting photos. First off was a woman (seen in a couple of my photos in a red shirt & camo pants) who decided to use the always ineffective umbrella trick, and even coerced another staff member into doing it with her. I of course still got shots, as I show you below. Just dont bother crews. You are really only going to make me try more. Later was my friend at the end of the set in the yellow shirt, who was trying to pretend to be accidentally standing in my way the whole time. As you can see, he too was very very successful at his job. I found extra odd these two wannabe bodyguards were acting this way, since it was very clear the actors were in a good mood, and even smiled when they noticed I was shooting them. At 1 point Michael gives me a thumbs up in a video clip I have.

Because of those crew members unneccesary rudeness, I opted to NOT go home right after they wrapped, and instead decided to follow them to the next location. I sometimes wonder if crews really want me to stick around, because the easiest way to do that is annoy me for no reason.

After that scene ended, the production moved a 3 minute drive down the street, back to their downtown Smallville set at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds. I went on foot, and it took me about 30 minutes, as the front gates of it are on the far side of the fairgrounds. When I got there, the main street of the set seemed quiet, and inactive, so I suspected they were filming somewhere out of visual range, and I called it a day..... but not before taking a few general view photos of the set up for you all.

I am sure by now you know there is more S&L content coming up from the very big public shoot in downtown Vancouver from yesterday at the time this blog went up. I will have that blog up later this week (maybe tomorrow? But more likely Fri or Sat).

Video will come later on my YOUTUBE CHANNEL. So check in there for those later on in a few weeks.
Some of the videos will be on the Patreon page for video tier members in the next couple weeks.

Superman & Lois season 3 will airs in 2023 on The CW in the U.S. 

You can now get exclusive first looks on our Patreon ahead of these blog posts.

If you want to see my past behind the scene shots for Superman & Lois go HERE

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This morning & afternoon I went down to the Superman And Lois set that was in front of the casino behind B.C. Place. This has become a semi-regular location for Arrowverse shows of late, as The Flash has been in that area several times in the past couple seasons, Batwoman once, and now Superman & Lois.

In the early afternoon, the crew set up a scene that is supposed to be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with some criminals robbing an armored truck. In the first few takes, they did the scene with just the criminals, and some cops who come in after to arrest the crooks. At the time, you dont know what happens yet, but the 3 crooks all end up tossed onto the hood of the car they are trying to get away in, and 1 of them has his gun crumpled up.

A bit later, we find out who stopped these thieves. Tyler Hoechlin was on set in a kind of "its seen better days" Superman costume. The cape is tattered, and the front looks like it hasnt seen a washing machine in a few weeks. With him, was Jordan Elsass as Jonathan Kent. This was the first time I ever saw Jordan on set, or even in person. He came out in something a little less Jonathan looking, and a bit more "superhero in training" looking, as he was wearing a black t-shirt with a red House of El crest on it, that looked like it was dripping blood on it. He also had a leather jacket on, and red pants. He also was sporting somewhat of a punk look. 

The scene has the pair show up, seemingly thwart the crooks somehow, then turn around to applause from a crowd of onlookers & photographers. They give the crowd a wave, and that was the end of the scene. I have already seen in certain parts of the internet, people discussing my photos that were put up on Patreon 1st, if this is in fact our Clark & Jonathan, or could this be the Bizarro version of them. Hard to say, all I can say is the "S" on their chests was proper, and not reversed.

While I was there, I dealt with more than an unreasonable amount of harassment from some of the crew (while it is rare, it isnt completely unheard of... and this specific show has acted this way more like this than any other show I have encountered, ever). But I will give kudos to the Key ALM (I'd name the person, but I dont know if they want that.) who came over, listened, communicated with me & another photographer there, and in the end de-escalated what had reached a pretty tense situation. At 1 point immediately before their presence, a Teamster (imagine a less intelligent version of a mall security guard... not to say ALL Teamsters are that way, but a shockingly large percentage are) confronting me so aggressively he had backed up literally within 6 inches of me, a person on crutches, to try & block me from walking along a public pathway. He was less than 2 inches from the front of my camera, and thus, less than 2 inches away from finding out my crutch can be used for other purposes. Thankfully for him, cooler heads prevailed, and the Key ALM really should get a promotion for the way they handled the situation.

Fingers crossed that now that Superman & Lois has broken the ice on coming back down for this season, we will see them a bit more before they wrap.

Video will come later on my YOUTUBE CHANNEL. So check in there for those later on in a few weeks.
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Superman & Lois season 2 airs Tuesday nights on The CW in the U.S. 

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If you want to see my past behind the scene shots for Superman & Lois go HERE

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This morning & afternoon I went down to the Superman And Lois set that was in a park I was just in last week for Supergirl for a scene.

This wasnt even the first time I have filmed Superman in this park, as they shot scenes for season 2 of Supergirl there with Superman on set here.

Today they were shooting episode 1x14, the penultimate episode of the first season. The episode is directed by Alexandra "Lexi" La Roche. The scenes had Tyler Hoechlin as Superman, and Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane, on set for an early scene. Also on set at the time was the Steel suit, but at the time I never saw who might be in it, and I didnt see it for more than 1 take I shot (and then later when I was looking at these photos noticed him just BARELY mixed into the middle of the crowd shot in the first shot). They then did a part of the scene with just Lois & the spectators where Lois takes a cops megaphone, and tells people to get out of there. In 1 take I noticed 2 people jump up like the way Superman does, then they crawled out of the way of the scene, but I dont know if this is supposed to be anyone, but I did take 1 photo there of the pair (although 1 had his back mostly to me).

Later, they did a scene with Tyler, Wole Parks as John Henry Irons in the Steel outfit, and Stacey Farber as Leslie Larr. In that scene, Superman and Steel are standing facing Leslie, Steel is carrying a massive hammer that I thought was the one that Lois had in Elseworlds, but when I looked at it here on my computer, I noticed the colour is different. So I dont know if thats a Crisis change, or if this is a different hammer. In the scene Superman & Steel suddenly look off to the side, where it is implied something/someone is there, and Superman flies off.

I picked up a couple details from just paying attention to what the crew were saying to background people for the crowd scenes to get them to react how they wanted. Leslie Larr gets electrocuted at some point, unsure if it is before, or after the scene I saw her shooting with Superman & Steel. Morgan Edge is there up in the air for 1 of the scenes. They also reference at one point a piece of dialogue where someone says "Same, he is here to help us". I would assume they are talking about General Lane in that moment, and I am led to believe its supposed to be Lois saying it, even though it was a crew member saying it to the crowd so they knew where in the scene they were.

They had a bit more filming to do after that, which I think had to include stunts at some point, since there was supposed to be one from what I was told earlier on, and I saw Tylers stunt double there at one point. But I had been there for a few hours, and frankly, 3 or 4 crew members there were just being classless pricks (every crew has a couple.... on this day, they just happened to all  be working together), and I decided I had more than enough. I COULD have got more, but really, I got more than I could have expected for the 5 or 6 hours I was there..... and hey, they are back there tomorrow (or tomorrow from the time I was writing this).

On day 2 they continued shooting in the park.

While I was there (I had another set to work that day, so I spent less than an hour there), they did 2 scenes. First with Leslie Larr on top of Steel pummeling him with a series of punches. Later, they did a scene with Steel wielding his hammer, and swinging it around in battle. That was all I saw that day unfortunately, except for 1 moment where I saw Supermans stunt double walking around early on, suggesting at some point he probably had some stunt work to do.

Video will come later on my YOUTUBE CHANNEL. So check in there for those later on in a few weeks.
Some of the videos will be on the Patreon page for video tier members THIS WEEK.

Superman & Lois season 1 airs Tuesday nights on The CW in the U.S. starting.

You can now get exclusive first looks on our Patreon ahead of these blog posts.

If you want to see my past behind the scene shots for Superman & Lois go HERE

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This was the 2nd time in 2 days I had found the CW & HBO Max series Superman & Lois on location. My other blog from the day before set is HERE.

On this day, Tyler Hoechlin was dressed as Clark Kent, instead of Superman, and he was doing some scenes in an alley first. Early in the day they had him run down the alley, and simulate the classic shirt ripping scene, except for the fact he never ripped it open. A bit later, they moved to the corner where he starts his run, and has a scene where he is stepping out of a a phone booth, for the classic Superman idea of him changing in phone booths. When he steps out, he notices people rushing to, or away form something, and he stops a woman and asks her what is going on, she points up in the sky at something, says something to him, then goes on her way, leaving Clark there to stare up at it on his own.

Later in the afternoon/evening, they moved up the street from there, and had a scene where Clark is standing on a street, looking at something in a newspaper, and trying to figure out where he is going. He tries to ask someone, but seems to fail, then just stands there, looking confused on where to go.

Then they moved to the final scene of the day, where Clark is now joined by Bitsie Tulloch as Lois Lane. He has ner reporters notepad in her hand, and the pair are walking along. It felt very much like a 1st, or at most, very early interaction between them.

One little detail I noticed when I was photographing parts of the set, is that the license plate has a 2004 expiration tag on it. So I would assume this scene is intended to be set around 2003/04.

Superman & Lois season 1 will air Tuesday nights on The CW in the U.S. starting February 23, 2021.

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Today the new CW & HBO Max series Superman & Lois was on location in the Downtown Eastisde part of Vancouver. The filming was on a side street, not too far from where they shot the first public scene with him in the suit way back when.

On this day, I found Tyler Hoechlin on set as Superman, along with Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane in my 1st ever time seeing her on set, or at all. Also on set was a currently unknown actor as the villain of the episode. I believe the character is being called "Atom Man", but I wasnt entirely sure of that. One thing IS for certain, he was sporting some symbols on his chest that Arrowverse fans might take a 2nd look at. It looks like the symbol the Earth X villains (I wont use that specific word here) in the Crisis On Earth X cross over event.

The scene plays out with the bad guy standing there, making people panic. Lois Lane is standing in the middle of it all, and suddenly Superman swoops in to deal with the villain. Then there is mostly a stand off. At one point the villain has a gun, but then puts his hands behind his head at one point. From the angle I was shooting it when he had his mask, and gun in hand, I never saw what he did with the gun when he moved his hands to his head.

Curious moment happens during the interaction, as Superman in comes in, wearing his retro outfit that his mom made him that we see in the 1st episode of the series, he turns to Lois, and says "nice to meet you", and at another point says "are you okay?", as if he had not met her before. She replies back to him and I swear I thought I heard her call him "Mister Metropolis" during 1 take, but it was hard to hear for certain over traffic. Could this be the 1st time Superman and Lois actually meet?

A short while later, they wrapped that scene, and the cast left to do a wardrobe change. A twitter user named @Kriptogaming caught them a few hours later filming in the same area doing a scene where Lois was now wearing a green jacket, and Tyler was now dressed as Clark Kent doing a scene here... https://twitter.com/kriptogaming1/status/1389771005036400640

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Earlier today the new CW & HBO Max series Superman & Lois was on location in downtown Vancouver, in an alley in Chinatown that I had shot a scene from for a different show several years ago. There was also a scene in a near by skate park that I got to JUST after it wrapped (that is where the smashed in green car photo is from).

On set this day was Tyler Hoechlin in the brand new Superman suit that The CW posted a photo of earlier in the day. While I did officially have the 1st look at it last month, the quality of those photos as you recall were far inferior to todays, as I was shooing them from 3 football fields away, in the dark, through smoke. Todays shoot was only about 1/3 of a football field away, in daytime, through smoke.

The scene literally consisted of just a massive explosion of dirt and debris coming from a little storefront in an area made to look like a non-U.S. area (they literally built this store front in a side lot on an alley just for this scene), scattering dozens of feet into the air, then a couple moments later, Superman comes out of the building that just blew up, and does his up up & away fly away move. For the first while they had his stunt double do the rehearsals as they worked on where the camera should be, and how fast to do the scene etc (quite normal for the film industry.), I snapped a few pics of him as you could see the bottom of the suit poking out from under his jacket. Eventually Tyler showed up, and they shot 4 takes of this explosion with him there, and a herd of crew members standing around holding umbrellas on a dry day.

After that shoot, Tyler left, and they shot some scenes of a pile of cars driving, with a film crew inside a taxi cab at the front of the line of traffic, all had foreign license plates.

Throughout the day, some of the crew members who apparently dont have internet access, and didnt know about The CW posting the suit, tried preventing everyone from seeing what was going on. While they did make it harder. As always, they did not in fact succeed. As you can see by the photos below. Someone needs to tell their crew this doesnt work, never has. All it does is annoy everyone (crew included, as most of them certainly dont want to stand around holding an umbrella for no reason), and actually incentivizes people to want to come to more of their sets. All my years of sets, this tactic has been used easily 200+ times, and TWO times I would say it sort of worked, and it wasnt because of their plan, it was because of my laziness on those days.

Right now, there is also video (short clip) on my Patreon of the scene as well. Here are a few photos (some screen caps from that video, along with a couple photos from a pap that was there that gave his "unused/not submittable" photos to me to use).

I have also added a couple photos of the back of the cape, since last time I had people ask me (even though I was 3 football fields away) if I saw any logo on the back of the cape..... so now you can see for yourself.

Superman & Lois season 1 will air Tuesday nights on The CW in the U.S. starting February 23, 2021.

You can now get exclusive first looks on our Patreon ahead of these blog posts.

If you want to see my past behind the scene shots for Superman & Lois go HERE