Details On Smallville Retrospective That Was Shown At NYCC

At this past weekend's New York Comic Con, Smallville fans were treated to a retrospective piece. The video will be included on the upcoming Smallville: The Complete Series box set that will be for sale this November. Thanks to Screen Rant we have some highlights from the video. Most interesting one that sticks out is that show creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar pitched the idea of a show based on Lois Lane in college, assuming they wouldn't get the rights to Superman.

From Screen Rant

Miller and Gough initially pitched a show to WB about Lois Lane in college because they assumed they wouldn’t be able to get Superman; WB came back with Superman

Tom Welling’s very placid style of portraying Clark Kent developed from his complete and utter terror as an acting novice

John Glover – who played Lionel Luthor, Lex’s father – was originally only hired for a small part, but he did so well they expanded his role

John Schneider – who played Jonathon Kent, Clark’s adoptive father – based his relationship with Clark on his relationship with his son, who has Asperger’s; in fact, he likened parenting “Superman” to parenting a special needs child

The numerous identity switching episodes were utilized not only because they were a fun way of exploring the characters, but they were also very cheap and made room for bigger, more action-packed episodes later on

When Smallville was moved to a very competitive timeslot on Thursdays in season 5, everybody believed that would be the end of the show – but then it pulled better ratings than ever before

For the series finale, Allison Mack begged the producers not to kill Chloe – because she’d been killed so many times before

There are numerous behind-the-scenes clips where Michael Rosenbaum just goofs off and messes with the crew

To watch the retrospective make sure to pick up Smallville: The Complete Series on November 29, 2011

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