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Smallville Shocker: Co-Creator Miles Millar Admits “Chlois” Was Talked About (UPDATED)

Smallville co-creator Miles Millar admits that the notion of Chloe Sullivan becoming Lois Lane had been discussed.

Published

3 years ago

November 24, 2023

The latest episode of the Tom Welling-Michael Rosenbaum Smallville podcast TalkVille went out this week, and in it, Michael asks the show’s creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar two questions that fans have speculated about for decades… with, perhaps, a surprise answer in one of those cases.

Let’s start with the headline-grabber: In the Smallville Season 3 episode “Delete,” Chloe uses the name “Lois Lane” as a byline, which fueled the fan fires that “Chlois” – the theory that Allison Mack’s character Chloe Sullivan would somehow or someday change her name to Lois Lane – was a direction the show would ultimately be taking. On the podcast, Michael Rosenbaum asked the producers if this was something that was actually considered.

“We did talk about that, that maybe she is the proto-Lois and that later on, she had to change her identity or something like that, and she becomes Lois Lane,” Miles Millar answered.

“The issue, again, was we wanted to get Lois Lane, and they wouldn’t give her to us,” Al Gough added, before speaking a bit about other conflicts the show had with the movie division of Warner Bros. “Then when she came in in Season 4, there was this huge thing about ‘you can have her for two episodes,’ and then ‘you can have her for three,’ and then ‘you can 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’,” he continued.

“She became part of the show. It was never questioned again,” Miles said, with Al Gough adding that Lois Lane actress Erica Durance was “fantastic.”

It isn’t known when the possibility of actually doing “Chlois” had been discussed on the show. The notion that Chloe Sullivan was Lois Lane’s cousin was officially confirmed, almost accidentally by Miles Millar at the San Diego Comic-Con panel for Smallville in 2002. Prior to that, the writer of this very article had been told before the pilot even filmed that “Chloe is Lois Lane’s cousin.” In doing an interview for Smallville: The Official Companion Season 7 (also by me), Al Gough reiterated that the show would not end with “Chlois.”

“Chloe, from the inception of the show, was always Lois’s cousin,” he said. “It might have even been in the pilot script. The idea that she was going to turn into Lois was never going to happen.”

UPDATE: We went to Smallville co-creator Alfred Gough for clarification on when “Chloe Sullivan might be Lois Lane” was considered, and we have an answer: “We discussed it when we were developing the show in mid 2000, but even in the series pitch document Lois was her cousin,” he responded to KryptonSite exclusively.

On a similar note, Michael also asked if Ian Somerhalder’s Adam Knight character was supposed to be Bruce Wayne — something that was actually a KryptonSite April Fool only a few months before Somerhalder’s actual casting. It sounds like that one was a for-sure “no.”

“[Bruce Wayne] was a name we were clearly trying to put out there, but we but we could never get Batman. At that point, it was off the table, because [Christopher] Nolan was in literally making Batman Begins at this point,” Gough said. (You can read more about Al and Miles trying to get Bruce Wayne in their 20th anniversary interview here at KryptonSite).

What do you all think? Did the tens of thousands of KryptonSite Forum Chlois posts actually move the needle, or was this just a passing notion, like “wouldn’t it be cool if….?” We may never know, but you can see the Gough/Millar TalkVille episode below, where you can get some great insights into the “Memoria” episode that Miles directed. Enjoy!

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Tabby

November 25, 2023 at 5:27 am

Yeah. Years of internet fighting, being sucked into a cult, scarred for life, only to find out our spidey senses were on point? You win, cruel world. Lol

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Smallville

Cassidy Freeman To Make Her First Salute to Smallville Appearance!

Cassidy Freeman will be appearing at the 25th Anniversary Salute to Smallville convention in Nashville.

Published

1 week ago

September 21, 2026

Craig Byrne

Smallville Seasons 8-10 standout Cassidy Freeman is coming to the 25th anniversary convention in Nashville happening November 7-8, 2026!

Creation Entertainment announced her this afternoon, and tickets for the event are still available as well as photo ops/autographs with Cassidy. Get them while the getting’s good, because this is her first appearance at a Smallville-only convention and there’s sure to be a lot of demand!

Cassidy played “Tess Mercer” in those final seasons, and we followed her from her debut all the way to her reveal as a Luthor, and, of course, her eventual fate in the show’s finale. (No spoilers here!) She’s kept quite busy in the years since, starring in Longmire, The Righteous Gemstones, and more, always bringing her excellent talent to the screen.

Joining Cassidy at the 25th anniversary celebration are Smallville creators Al Gough & Miles Millar as well as over a dozen members of the cast as well as guest stars – Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance, Kristin Kreuk, John Glover, Laura Vandervoort, Helen Slater, Adrianna Palicki, Phil Morris, Erica Cerra, Eric Johnson and Sam Jones III! Hosting the event will be KryptonSite’s own Craig Byrne as well as Derek Russell from The House of El.

Smallville

Smallville Creators To Attend 25th Anniversary Convention

Smallville creators Alfred Gough & Miles Millar will be attending Creation’s 25th anniversary convention.

Published

3 months ago

July 16, 2026

Craig Byrne

Every story has a beginning… and these two were there at the very beginning.

As if there weren’t enough reasons already to attend Creation Entertainment’s 25th Anniversary Salute to Smallville convention which is happening November 7-8, 2026 in Nashville… two new additions have been added to the already-packed lineup… two folks who were there at the very start.

Smallville creators Alfred Gough & Miles Millar will be attending the 25th anniversary show, which will run a few weeks after the 25th anniversary of the October 16, 2001 premiere of Smallville on The WB. They’ll be joining a lineup already populated by some huge names including Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance and more, and this year, there are even some new guests that are attending their first Creation Smallville show, including the legendary Helen Slater (Lara-El) and Phil Morris (John Jones!)

Beyond Smallville, Al & Miles have kept themselves very busy on several projects, most recently Netflix’s Wednesday and the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice film. Other credits of theirs include The Shannara Chronicles, Into the Badlands, and Spider-Man 2, the last of which is known by many as “the best live-action Spider-Man movie.” As far as we know, this is their first convention discussing Smallville since their time on the show way back when it was Season 7 being promoted at San Diego Comic-Con. If you’ve had questions about the show that you’ve been sitting on for over two decades, the two best people to answer them – Al Gough & Miles Millar – will now be there!

The anniversary convention will be co-emceed by KryptonSite’s Craig Byrne (that’s me!) and The House of El’s Derek Russell for the third year in a row, and we’d love to see you.

Get your admission passes, photo ops, autographs and more by visiting Creation’s website!

If you are still on the fence about going, Creation is offering 10% off all admission passes, photo op, autograph, and special event tickets for a limited time! Use the coupon code SMV10 and click “Apply” to get the discount (service fees and sales tax will still apply). The sale ends Saturday, July 18 at 5:00 PM PST.

A full guest list of the actors can be found below.

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Black Star: Pre-Order The Comic From Kristin Kreuk Today!

Kristin Kreuk’s comic book Black Star is available to pre-order from your local comic shop.

Published

3 months ago

July 2, 2026

Craig Byrne

July 29, 2026 will mark the release of the first issue of the new Titan Comics series Black Star which is written by Smallville alum and current Murder In A Small Town star Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang) alongside collaborators Peter Mooney and Eric Putzer with art by Joe Bacardo. The five-issue series is described as “a Northern Gothic Noir tinged with horror and dark humor.”

In Black Star, amidst skirmishings between two warring factions in the early nineteenth-century fur trade, Dashiell Carlyle discovers he has magical abilities… and that he’s not alone. Thrust into a secret order with designs to use their magic to build a new and better world, Dashiell discovers that their utopia may come at a horrific cost.

Here at KryptonSite, we of course are very supportive of Kristin’s new endeavor and hope others will by pre-ordering the first issue of the series. While there may be copies on the shelf on the day of release, pre-ordering means that you shouldn’t miss out… and the key pre-order period is what really helps for sales, as retailers have until Monday, July 6 to get their orders in. To find your nearest comic shop, visit the Comic Shop Locator website, and to ask then to pre-order a physical copy for you, call your local comic shop or, if in the UK or Europe, you can contact Forbidden Planet. Black Star will also have a presence (and an exclusive cover) at the Comic-Con International in San Diego later this month… just head to Booth #5337 (the Titan Publishing booth) to get yours! [Maybe while there, tell Titan you want more Smallville companion guide books from Craig Byrne! – shameless Craig]

The other thing you can do to ensure you get all five issues of Black Star is to set up a “pull-list” subscription with your local comic store, which tells the retailer to put aside a copy for you each time a new issue is released, on a rolling basis. Some retailers will also offer you the option of pulling just the first issue of any new related series, so you can try it before you commit. Either way, you won’t have to worry about it selling out before you get your chance!

Finally, you can pre-order a digital copy online… and maybe get a few cents to KryptonSite from an affiliate link as well. You can do that here.

Now for the really fun stuff… want to see some interior pages as well as several variant covers they are releasing. Artists for the covers include Martin Simmonds (The Department of Truth), Joe Bacardo (Black Star), Robert Hack (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Alison Sampson (Sleeping Beauties)! Enjoy: