Michael
Rosenbaum's Smallville Journey Ends;
CW Announces New Characters For Season 8 In
news that we regret to share, it seems that
Michael Rosenbaum's 7-year run as Lex Luthor
on Smallville will be coming to an
end.
Smallville
Executive Producers Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin,
Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson; The CW Network;
and Warner Bros. Television have released
a joint statement regarding Michael Rosenbaum’s
departure from the show:
“It
has been an honor and pleasure to work
with Michael for the past seven seasons.
He is one of the best actors on television
and has never failed to bring a new
layer to the character of Lex Luthor
in every episode. While Michael won’t
be a series regular and we won’t
have the pleasure of working with him
on a weekly basis this fall, we like
to think that we haven’t seen the
last of Lex Luthor. Stay tuned."
The
network has announced two new characters
that will be joining the cast of Smallville
next season:
the legendary, unstoppable Doomsday,
and a female antagonist who will challenge
Clark in ways never before imagined.
Casting is underway for both roles.
Doomsday:
In season eight, Clark will face his ultimate
challenge with the appearance of the legendary,
unstoppable destroyer Doomsday, who appears
on “Smallville” for the first time.
As comic book fans know, Doomsday is notorious
for being the only character in the DC Comics
universe to have killed Superman.
Female
villain: Doomsday won’t be Clark’s
only nemesis in the upcoming season. The executive
producers are tight-lipped about a new female
villain they will be introducing, but they
can say she will be familiar to many fans
and will set her sights on Clark in ways Lex
never could. Intelligent, brilliantly manipulative,
and dangerously sinister, our gorgeous new
villain has one more weapon in her arsenal:
Her mutual attraction with Clark may prove
to be as deadly as kryptonite for him.
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Michael
Rosenbaum's Smallville Journey Ends;
CW Announces New Characters For Season 8