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Smallville is an American superhero television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series was produced by Millar/Gough Ink , Tollin/Robbins Productions , DC Comics , and Warner Bros. Television .
In 2003, Welling said he met with director Brett Ratner about potentially playing Clark Kent/Superman in the superhero film Superman Returns (2006), but scheduling conflicted with Smallville. [13] Comic book artist Alex Ross even did two sketches of Welling as the "Man of Steel" to see what the actor would look like in the famous costume. [14]
Clark Joseph Kent is a fictional character and the main protagonist on The WB/CW television series Smallville.The character of Clark Kent, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 as the civilian persona of DC Comics' Superman, was adapted to television in 2001 by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.
Twenty years ago, Smallville made audiences believe that a Superman-less Superman series could fly on the small screen.Premiering on the WB on Oct. 16, 2001, the show starred Tom Welling as the ...
A 1942 Superman novel, The Adventures of Superman by George Lowther, [5] gave the names "Eben and Sarah Kent"; Eben and Martha Kent were used in the 1948 Superman film serial; while Eben and Sarah Kent were used in the 1952 première of Adventures of Superman television series, but the first extensive retelling of Superman's origin in Superman ...
The character is loosely based on Lena Luthor from the comics, and the name "Tess Mercer" is a homage to two female characters from Superman lore, Eve Teschmacher and Mercy Graves, [104] who are both Lex's henchwomen. As Freeman describes her character, Tess Mercer is Lex's handpicked successor; she is "fierce", "fun" and "intelligent".
"Smallville" is Superman's fictional Kansas hometown. "Stubbville" is the Sunflower State city where Steve Martin's and John Candy's characters catch a train after a frigid ride in the back of a ...
Smallville is a fictional town in American comic books published by DC Comics.The childhood hometown of Superman, Smallville was first named in Superboy #2 (May 1949). The town, long in an unnamed US state that was first defined as Kansas in Superman: The Movie (1978), is the setting of many Superboy comics where Superboy defends Smallville from various threats.