Superman & Lois: A New Costume & More Scoop From DC FanDome

Executive Producer Todd Helbing confirmed that a “bad-ass” new suit will be coming for Tyler Hoechlin‘s Superman in Superman & Lois next year, and that is just one of the things that was discussed at today’s panel at DC FanDome.

We live-tweeted the event from our @SupermanLoisTV Twitter account, but if you want some highlights, here goes:

• • Clark and Lois feel like Smallville is the right place to raise Jonathan and Jordan after a tragic event happens.
  • The show will explore what it’s like to be parents with jobs like “Superman” and “the world’s greatest reporter.” The sons Jonathan and Jordan will represent “two different skill sets.”
  • “Crisis really gave us an opportunity to start with a blank slate and tell the story in a way we couldn’t otherwise,” Todd Helbing says of some changes they could make, like giving Superman and Lois two teenage sons.
  • Elizabeth Tulloch has read two Superman & Lois scripts now and she finds the story with the sons to be “really, really compelling.”
  • Tyler Hoechlin likes that what Superman stands for really grabs on to such an impressionable audience who sees him as a hero. It makes him even more excited to play the character, and he is aware of the long-standing legacy of the character and how he means a wide range of things to many generations.
  • “Lana was Clark’s first love, and it’s an interesting dynamic as an adult how you deal with that,” Todd Helbing says, assuring, though, that Superman will not have an affair.
  • It sounds like the boys and Lana’s daughter Sarah Cushing will have their own love triangle.
  • Drama between Lois and her father, General Sam Lane (Dylan Walsh), will also be explored.
  • Lois being the world’s greatest reporter is one of her “superpowers” making her and Superman an unstoppable team.
  • Elizabeth Tulloch as seen the Christopher Reeve Superman films with Margot Kidder, but she has not really seen Smallville. She did, however, have nic things to say about meeting Erica Durance.
  • “She gets why Superman is so important for the world,” Tulloch says of something that makes Lois special.
  • “We needed a little bit of hope, and we needed a little bit of optimism,” Tyler Hoechlin says of how the SSuperman role came around for him at the right time in his life.
  • Elizabeth Tulloch shared a story about filming the Elseworlds crossover — when Tyler did the “shirt rip,” she and The Flash Grant Gustin were in awe, and Gustin even gasped offscreen.