Smallville On The Cover Of May 10 TV Guide

Smallville will be on the cover of the May 10, 2003 edition of TV Guide, which goes on sale on Monday, May 5. Included are the following details (and more, of course!):

Will Clark and Lana get together? “Clark’s got the physical ability to have this relationship with Lana but not the emotional ability,” Tom Welling tells TV Guide. “That’s what he struggles through.”

Kristin Kreuk agrees that happiness might not be in the future: “In the last three episodes of this season, they get pretty close. And it all obviously falls apart, like these things always do.”

Regarding Lex and his path to the dark side, “People are always curious as to what would turn a person evil to a point of no return,” co-creator Al Gough says. “I think that’s the fascination with the Anakin Skywalker character in ‘Star Wars.’ Evil is a journey, not a light switch. There isn’t going to be one moment that ultimately makes [Lex] turn evil. Just as Clark’s story is the formation of a hero, Lex’s story is the formation of a villain.”

The article also talks about any potential conflicts between Smallville and the (moronic idea) Superman movie. “We have an agreement with DC Comics and Warner Bros., for example, not to introduce any other Kryptonians, which is because of the impending ‘Superman’ movie,” Gough told TV Guide. “We toyed with the idea [for example] of bringing General Zod [a Kryptonian villain seen in comics and the ‘Superman’ movies] into our Smallville universe, and they asked us not to do that because of the film. And we agreed. We’re trying not to cross our signals that much. I think our Superman time line works great, and the movie can do what they want. I think they can both peacefully coexist. We certainly have many, many more stories to tell.”

Al Gough also talked about how much of Smallville is planned out. “In our heads, it’s always been a five-year plan,” says Al Gough. “We know what the finales are for each season. I think we’ve got sensibly two more years in high school, and then the next step would be college. And there can obviously be adjustments if the show continues beyond that.”

For more (of course!) check out TV Guide, on sale Monday.

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