Smallville
Summary
A majorSmallvillefan possibility was once close to happening . Tom Welling ledSmallvillefor 10 season , with the serial order the account of how Clark Kent became Superman . Smallvillefeatured exciting original charactersalongside pavilion names from DC Comics . One of such original character was Allison Mack ’s Chloe Sullivan , but it appears the character could have been retroactively turned into a majorDCname .
On theTalkVillepodcast ( viaComicbook.com),Smallvillecreators Miles Millar and Al Goughconfirmed that they retrieve about make up Chloe Sullivan become Lois Lane in the series . Speaking with Welling and Lex Luthor actor Michael Rosenbaum , theSmallvilleco - creators divulge that Chloe could have been " the proto - Lois and then , after on , she had to change her indistinguishability or something like that , and she becomes Lois Lane . " According to Millar and Gough , they wanted to work Lois into the serial publication but were not allow to up to time of year 4 , which is why that architectural plan was once conceived . hold in out the full quote below :
" MILLAR : We did talk about that , that maybe she is the proto - Lois and then , later on , she had to change her personal identity or something like that , and she becomes Lois Lane .
GOUGH : The issue , again , was we desire to get Lois Lane , and they would n’t give her to us . Then , when she came in in Season 4 , there was this huge matter about ' you may have her for two episodes , ' and then ' you may have her for three , ' and then ' you may have her for half the season ' and [ WBTV head ] Peter Roth , to his credit was like ' f — it , She ’s in the show now and she ’s just not leaving . ' "
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With James Gunn ’s reboot of the Man of Steel for the new DC Universe on the way , Superman : Legacycan memorise some lessons fromSmallville . One of those has to be how to handle Lois Lane correctly . Erica Durance first joinedSmallvillein a client theatrical role , slowly growing towards becoming a series regular and leaving her mark on Superman ’s live - activity story .
Durance ’s Lois was everything the character postulate to be , managing to tardily sweep Clark Kent off his ft with her gumptious personality and disarming charm . Smallville ’s Lois Lane was always quick to help others and used her purpose as a Daily Planet journalist later on in the series to help Clark ’s originate Italian sandwich persona . Lois was an interesting and entertaining character in her own right , many times being the tonality to unlocking the resolution to a villain ’s schema without Clark ’s aid .
In the end , it was for the best that theSmallvilleco - creator ' plan of having Chloe turn out to be Lois did not pass off . While a popular theory due to Chloe have got similar gustatory modality to Lois — even pursuing her own career as a journalist at the Daily Planet — Durance was the spitfire Lois Lane that the series involve , and a comic book - accurate Lois was a better choice than the convoluted way of making an original character retroactively Lois Lane by modify her identity . Chloe ended up being Lois Lane ’s first cousin , which linked the characters in a more interesting way inSmallville .
Source : TalkVillepodcast ( viaComicbook.com )
