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Legends of Tomorrow has gone to the by, to the future, and now it's going inside the tube: On Tuesday's episode (The CW, 9/8c), Charlie scatters her Waverider teammates throughout various Goggle box shows to protect them from her sisters' wrath.

The installment marks the television directorial debut of former Arrow EP/current Legends consulting producer Marc Guggenheim, who was given the claiming of not merely creating homages to Friends, Star Expedition and Downton Abbey, but also had to effigy out how not to crack up while shooting the hilarious hour. (Believe me, that's a very alpine job when you're watching Dominic Purcell aqueduct Khan!)

Below, Guggenheim details the old-school touches he brought to the "inventive" and heartfelt episode, and previews the difficult choice the Legends will face.

TVLINE | Of all the Arrowverse shows, what fabricated Legends the right fit for your directorial debut? Was it but nigh timing, or was at that place something specifically about the show itself that made yous want to direct it?
It was a lilliputian bit nigh timing. I never actually wanted to direct Arrow. I've always sort of felt that Pointer is non a testify that first-time directors should do — and that's non to say that we haven't had first-time directors on Arrow. But simply the nature of the show, the nature of the action, it'south not a starter bear witness, and I've been proverb that, basically, for eight years. It would take been highly hypocritical of me to suddenly directly my first episode [on] Arrow. In Legends, obviously, I've worked on and have a closer connection to that show than I do the other shows, so it just made the nearly sense. As well, with Legends, I knew what kind of back up system I would have there.

TVLINE | As a producer, having some insight into what's happening on the prove, did you handpick this episode? Or was information technology but random that y'all got something so magical?
Honestly, the only thing I handpicked was the slot. I wanted to pick an episode that was as far away from "Crunch on Infinite Earths" as I could get, considering I didn't desire to be still working post [production] on "Crisis" and directing my offset episode of television. As information technology turns out, in that location was a petty bit of overlap. I did review some visual effects shots for "Crisis" while I was working on this episode.

I said to the writers, "Can you brand information technology piece of cake, please, similar a prune prove or something?" then they gave me this, which was definitely throwing me in the deep stop of the pool, only I really could not accept asked for a ameliorate script. I wasn't quite sure how tempted I would be to rewrite or do any sort of writing work on a script that I directed, and what was so great about the script that Grainne [Godfree] and James [Eagan] wrote was that I was never even tempted. From the very outset draft, it was only a fantastic piece of writing. Information technology was inventive, and information technology was fun, and it had heart to it. It was everything you could inquire for in a script, including a huge intimidation factor, because when a script comes in that skilful, your first instinct is, "I have to make sure I don't screw it up."

TVLINE | What tin you say virtually the TV show parodies that we're going to run into in this episode?
It's Friends, Star Trek [and] Downton Abbey, with a bit of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood thrown in for good mensurate. What was and so much fun about working on these little homages was we shot each i truthful to the spirit of those private shows. For example, for Friends, the fine art department created a set that was similar the proscenium, multi-photographic camera set for a half-60 minutes comedy, and we shot it like a multi-cam half-hour. We had 3 cameras working, and we staged information technology like y'all would stage an episode of Friends. With Downton Abbey, nosotros favored long lenses, and when we're in the kitchen with the servants, we go handheld.

With Star Trek, it's a lot of dollies and sort of dramatic button-ins. So we really tried to not just make it await like the private shows, but really make them feel [like the shows]. In fact, with Star Trip, we even shot the spaceships practically. We did miniatures instead of our normal CGI. So we built a Romulan send, and we built the Faterider, so we did a whole day of shooting confronting green screen. We did the old-schoolhouse technique that, I think, ILM developed for Star Wars, where yous move the camera, not the ships, and it creates the illusion that the ship is moving. So we brought out all the old-schoolhouse techniques.

TVLINE | When yous're directing an episode similar this that is and then humorous, is information technology difficult to proceed a direct face up on set? Was there a particular moment that you were just similar dying?
Then, so many times! Honestly, so many times. The truth of the matter is, a lot of times, if yous looked over at me, I had both my hands over my mouth to make certain that I wouldn't be audibly laughing. Or even, a lot of times, the actors are so slap-up, you want to simply yell out, "Yes!" or exclaim only how skilful this is, similar yous desire to kind of squeal with please. So information technology's a quality problem, but it's definitely ane of the harder aspects of directing a show similar this.

TVLINE | I couldn't determine what was more wonderful: Caity Lotz's Shatner impression or Dominic Purcell as Khan.
The funny thing nigh Dom is — and I think they're both amazing — he's actually never seen Wrath of Khan. So what yous're seeing in that location is his impression of my impression of Ricardo Montalbán. Everyone in the bandage really absorbed and took to their parts like a duck to water, but Dom, he's got the Khan bare chest outfit with the long, flowing hair, and he was only having the time of his life. It was actually cracking to see. That's the bully thing about the Legends cast is there's nothing off-limits. They tackle everything with accented abandon.

TVLINE | As amusing as this episode is, it's not but a one-off, funny Episode of the Calendar week. How does it motility the story arcs frontward?
I recollect the last 3 episodes of the season are kind of a trilogy. Episode 13 leads into [Episode] 14, [which] leads into [Episode] 15. Without giving anything away, it says a lot about the human relationship that Charlie has with the Legends and the relationship the Legends have with themselves. And in this episode, all the characters accept to make a very sort of personal choice. Information technology's the classic hero'southward journey choice of, "Practice I live It's a Wonderful Life, or practise I take reality and all the burdens and consequences that that brings?"

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Source: https://tvline.com/2020/05/25/legends-of-tomorrow-season-5-episode-14-star-trek-khan-homage-dominic-purcell/