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Todd Helbing on Smallville Guests on Superman & Lois

Superman & Lois Executive Producer discusses the possibility of having Smallville actors Tom Welling, Erica Durance, or Michael Rosenbaum on his show.

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Might we ever see some Smallville stars on Superman & Lois?

That was a topic discussed in an interview with Executive Producer Todd Helbing on the Looper website, where among other things, Todd was asked what it was like to see Tom Welling and Erica Durance – who starred Smallville where Helbing had his first professional script credit (with his brother Aaron) for the episode “Hero” – in the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover.

“I love what they did with Tom Welling and Erica, that they were married, and that farm is so iconic. I would love to see either of those two on our show,” Todd answered. I’m not sure how we would fit them in yet, but that would be a lot of fun.” (Helbing said “Tom is awesome” when we asked a similar question in a KryptonSite interview last year.)

The Looper interviewer also mentioned their desire to see Michael Rosenbaum on Superman & Lois as well, and here’s what Todd said:

“You know what, that’s a good point. He is fantastic. He was such an awesome Lex.”

Helbing also discussed the differences between writing for Smallville and writing for S&L. “Clark is now a father and Lois is a mother, and they’re married — that dynamic is completely different than writing teenagers. That was the biggest difference: the type of stories, the type of relationships, and the complexities of being [adults and] working parents,” he said. And, of course, Superman & Lois doesn’t have Product Placement Pete getting super powers from Kryptonite enhanced Stride Gum!

If you’re curious, Helbing’s episode of Smallville is titled “Hero” and aired during the show’s seventh season.

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  1. Alyce

    June 30, 2022 at 7:16 pm

    I would be ok with them maybe popping them in one day as long as they didn’t use that as an excuse to wipe them out of existence. Losing DCEU Superman is enough I don’t need to lose Smalllvilles Clark and Lois as well. They already proved they can’t be trusted with what they just had pointed out about Tyler and Bitsies Clark and Lois. Really would love for Tom and Erica to be too busy to ever do it.

  2. vantheman77

    July 3, 2022 at 1:21 pm

    Need to continue the Crisis thing to reprise the Lois and Clark of Earth-167.

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Smallville Animated Update: It May Be A While…

On TalkVille, the reality of the current status of the Smallville animated project was discussed.

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On a recent episode of Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling’s TalkVille podcast, they had the show’s creator Al Gough as a call-in guest, and among the topics discussed was the Smallville animated project that they’ve been trying to get off the ground. Unfortunately, Gough brought up the reality that especially with regime changes at the studio, it may be a while.

“Regime change” refers to changes in leadership at the studio or network. As an example, the regime changed massively when Smallville moved from The WB (who had executives that loved them) to The CW (where Dawn Ostroff was more interested in “pretty rich white girls with problems” shows and kept trying to kill Smallville).

“The problem with most projects in development in any studio and any network is regime change, and Warners has obviously gone through a lot, and I think the fact that they’re in the process of rebooting Superman again, unfortunately, I think, keeps our thing off the table for a bit,” Gough said in discussion with the actors. He pointed out that everything comes around in one form or another, pointing to Hulu’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival as such a thing.

So, don’t give up hope… but for now, it seems it’s not happening anytime soon, if at all.

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John Schneider Added To Salute to Smallville 2025 in Chicago!

John Schneider has been added to the 2025 Salute to Smallville convention in Chicago from Creation Entertainment.

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John Schneider is the latest actor to be added to the guest list for Creation Entertainment’s second “Salute To Smallville” convention, happening September 13-14 in Chicago. Schneider portrayed Clark’s human father Jonathan Kent from Seasons 1-5 and returned for several episodes in the show’s final season.

Schneider will be joining Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance, John Glover, Aaron Ashmore, Adrianne Palicki, and Alaina Huffman at this year’s event! Last year’s convention was a fantastic experience and it’s well worth checking out! You can read more about Salute to Smallville and purchase tickets here.

DISCLAIMER: KryptonSite’s Craig Byrne has created web graphics and websites for Creation Entertainment in addition to hosting their 2024 Salute to Smallville event.

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Annette O’Toole’s Big Smallville Regret

Annette O’Toole discusses her biggest regret from her time on Smallville.

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Smallville’s Annette O’Toole recently spoke with Salon magazine about her biggest regret from her time on the show. It’s a topic she has discussed on the TalkVille podcast, and it is something she talked about in KryptonSite’s interview to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series premiere.

Basically, it was the notion that she never was able to share scenes with Christopher Reeve. While the plan originally was for a scene between them in the Season 4 premiere “Crusade,” in the two appearances that Reeve did make on Smallville failed to reunite O’Toole with Reeve, which is a shame, as Annette played Lana Lang to Christopher Reeve’s Clark Kent in the film Superman III.

“I never understood it,” she said. “I should have picked up the phone and called the producers and said what are you thinking? You’ve got the prior Lana Lang and Superman. Why aren’t you putting them in a scene together? It kind of broke my heart. It was kind of like ‘if they don’t see, I’m not gonna tell ’em! They don’t understand!’ So who’s regretting it? Not them. I knew it would be the last time I’d ever get to see Chris, so, yeah, I’m very sad about that.”

You can watch the clip below.

 

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