Michael Rosenbaum leaves "Smallville"
David
Joint statement from "Smallville" Executive Producers Darren Swimmer,
Todd Slavkin, Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson; The CW Network; and
Warner Bros. Television regarding Michael Rosenbaum's departure from
"Smallville":
"It has been an honor and pleasure to work with Michael for the past
six 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."
Details for Season 8:
Additionally, two new villains will join the cast of characters on
"Smallville" this 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.
# # #
Dear Smallville Fans,
Well, it's been seven wonderful years. Your support is what has made
Smallville so successful, and I appreciate you all more than you know.
That being said, it is time for me to start the next chapter of my
life and career. I hope that I gave you some enjoyment over the years,
and that you found my portrayal of Lex Luthor to be satisfying. I am
truly grateful, as Smallville fans are the best fans out there. I
sincerely hope that you will continue to follow my career through my
hair growth period and beyond.
I'm very excited about what the future holds, but certainly,
Smallville will always be a part of me. I will definitely miss the
greatest crew in the world, and the wonderful cast that has been like
a family to me.
Thank you Al and Miles for creating the show. Thank you writers,
producers, directors and editors. Thanks Tollin, Robbins and Davola
for being there for the pilot. Thank you Peter Roth for employing me
for ten years. Lisa Lewis, I miss you already. John Glover, thanks for
helping me feel more comfortable touching other actors, while acting.
Bizarre, but helpful.
Mostly, I want to thank Greg Beeman for directing the "Oh Sherry"
video, by Steve Perry, back in the 80's.
Thanks crew. Thanks fans. Thanks Smallville.
I love you all,
Michael Rosenbaum
WQ
> May 1, 2008
>
>
> Dear Smallville Fans,
>
> Well, it's been seven wonderful years. Your support is what has made
> Smallville so successful, and I appreciate you all more than you know.
>
> That being said, it is time for me to start the next chapter of my
> life and career. I hope that I gave you some enjoyment over the years,
> and that you found my portrayal of Lex Luthor to be satisfying. I am
> truly grateful, as Smallville fans are the best fans out there. I
> sincerely hope that you will continue to follow my career through my
> hair growth period and beyond.
>
> I'm very excited about what the future holds, but certainly,
> Smallville will always be a part of me. I will definitely miss the
> greatest crew in the world, and the wonderful cast that has been like
> a family to me.
>
> Thank you Al and Miles for creating the show. Thank you writers,
> producers, directors and editors. Thanks Tollin, Robbins and Davola
> for being there for the pilot. Thank you Peter Roth for employing me
> for ten years. Lisa Lewis, I miss you already. John Glover, thanks for
> helping me feel more comfortable touching other actors, while acting.
> Bizarre, but helpful.
>
> Mostly, I want to thank Greg Beeman for directing the "Oh Sherry"
> video, by Steve Perry, back in the 80's.
>
> Thanks crew. Thanks fans. Thanks Smallville.
>
> I love you all,
>
> Michael Rosenbaum
--- Hm. He thanks just about everybody but Tom Welling and Kristin
Kreuk. Wonder what that's all about.
Dougie Roberts
to watch this show" which amoosed-vay at least 5 years ago.
Alric Knebel
I don't think that means anything. They were just fellow actors closer
to his own age, so he didn't gain much professionally from them in the
way of mentors. They were all pretty much beginners when the show began.
--
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http://www.ironeyefortress.com/C-SPAN_loon.html
http://www.ironeyefortress.com
jayembee
> Additionally, two new villains will join the cast of characters
> on "Smallville" this season: the legendary, unstoppable Doomsday,
OK, they finally came up with something to make me stop watching.
-- jayembee
Anim8rFSK
jayembee <jayembe...@snurcher.com> wrote:
Yes, that's a piss poor choice.
--
Star Trek 09:
No Shat, No Show.
Russell Watson
wrote:
I have said it before and will say it again: the biggest failing if
this show is that it is trying to tell the entire story of Superman as
we know it within the context of pre-Superman Clark Kent's life. At
this rate he has met almost every friend, villain, and other superhero
that we are familiar with from 70 years of comics without having once
put on glasses, red and blue underwear and a cape, or even flown
(except as "Kal El", whom they have stubbornly maintained is a
different entity than "Clark Kent" even though they are physically the
same person). There was so much that this show COULD have been if
there had been a shred of originality to how it was handled but they
have played on the sucker for anything that alludes to the familiar
fanbois to rape and pillage the Superman story for characters and
situations to "reimagine".
jayembee
> 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.
It just struck me...I'm getting the ominous feeling that this
will turn out to be Talia Head.
-- jayembee
Michael Alan Chary
Maybe it's the female Zoner?
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Michael Alan Chary
Dougie Roberts <dougie...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>Michael Rosenbaum's departure was preceded by "a vaguely defensible reason
>to watch this show" which amoosed-vay at least 5 years ago.
>
>
How about "a pleasant enough way to pass an hour each before the
inevitability of death, especially when the other choice is Survivor?"
jayembee
> Anim8rFSK <ANIM...@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> jayembee <jayembe...@snurcher.com> wrote:
>>
>>> David <diml...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Additionally, two new villains will join the cast of characters
>>>> on "Smallville" this season: the legendary, unstoppable Doomsday,
>>>
>>> OK, they finally came up with something to make me stop watching.
>>
>> Yes, that's a piss poor choice.
>
> I have said it before and will say it again: the biggest failing
> if this show is that it is trying to tell the entire story of
> Superman as we know it within the context of pre-Superman Clark
> Kent's life. At this rate he has met almost every friend, villain,
> and other superhero that we are familiar with from 70 years of
> comics [...] There was so much that this show COULD have been
> if there had been a shred of originality to how it was handled
> but they have played on the sucker for anything that alludes to
> the familiar fanbois to rape and pillage the Superman story for
> characters and situations to "reimagine".
There is so much wrong with the show, I don't know where to begin.
But I don't think the above is one of them. I grew up reading comics
during the Weisinger Era, where having Superboy meet characters
he wasn't supposed to meet until he was an adult was par for the
course.
As such, I really don't have a problem with SMALLVILLE being
populated by the likes of Lois, Jimmy, Green Arrow, Flash,
Cyborg, Aquaman, et alia. My objection to the introduction of
Doomsday is specific to that character.
I don't know why Fred thinks Doomsday is a "piss-poor choice",
but while I don't have any problems with the character per se, I
think he's been ridiculously overhyped and overused in the comics.
The "Death of Superman" story, while not exactly great, wasn't
reasonably good, and Doomsday was an interesting nemesis. The
problem was that he should've been a one-time-and-one-time-only
character. Continuing to bring him back every time they wanted
to up the ante only cheapened the significance of the character.
No doubt, the point of introducing the character into SMALLVILLE
is to make all the fans go, "Oh, shit, it's Doomsday, who killed
Superman! How is Clark going to be able to deal with that?!"
Instead, it just makes the whole idea of Doomsday a bad joke.
At this rate, in Season 9, they'll want to introduce the multiverse,
so that they can have a Crisis (another concept that DC has done
to death).
-- jayembee
Dougie Roberts
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> In article <fixSj.108118$Cj7.16218@pd7urf2no>,
> Dougie Roberts <dougie...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>Michael Rosenbaum's departure was preceded by "a vaguely defensible reason
>>to watch this show" which amoosed-vay at least 5 years ago.
>>
>>
>
>
>
> How about "a pleasant enough way to pass an hour each before the
> inevitability of death, especially when the other choice is Survivor?"
> --
False dichotomy. There is a third choice: turn off the TV and do something
else. ;-)
The show was a pleasant diversion in the past, but it seems now that the CW
is trying to keep a show going that is long past its prime. Which is
understandable from the CW's point of view, being a 4th place network, but
it is still a little disappointing.
David
<dougie...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>"Michael Alan Chary" <mch...@panix.com> wrote in message
>news:fvfm3o$2tl$1...@reader2.panix.com...
>> In article <fixSj.108118$Cj7.16218@pd7urf2no>,
>> Dougie Roberts <dougie...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>>Michael Rosenbaum's departure was preceded by "a vaguely defensible reason
>>>to watch this show" which amoosed-vay at least 5 years ago.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> How about "a pleasant enough way to pass an hour each before the
>> inevitability of death, especially when the other choice is Survivor?"
>> --
>
>False dichotomy. There is a third choice: turn off the TV and do something
>else. ;-)
>
>The show was a pleasant diversion in the past, but it seems now that the CW
>is trying to keep a show going that is long past its prime. Which is
>understandable from the CW's point of view, being a 4th place network
A distant 5th and possibly dropping to 6th when MyNetworkTV starts
airing "Smackdown."
Anim8rFSK
Wrong mythos. And Helen Slater is already playing Lara anyway.
Anim8rFSK
jayembee <jayembe...@snurcher.com> wrote:
> I don't know why Fred thinks Doomsday is a "piss-poor choice",
> but while I don't have any problems with the character per se, I
> think he's been ridiculously overhyped and overused in the comics.
> The "Death of Superman" story, while not exactly great, wasn't
> reasonably good, and Doomsday was an interesting nemesis. The
> problem was that he should've been a one-time-and-one-time-only
> character. Continuing to bring him back every time they wanted
> to up the ante only cheapened the significance of the character.
>
> No doubt, the point of introducing the character into SMALLVILLE
> is to make all the fans go, "Oh, shit, it's Doomsday, who killed
> Superman! How is Clark going to be able to deal with that?!"
> Instead, it just makes the whole idea of Doomsday a bad joke.
I'd say that pretty much sums up why Doomsday is a "piss-poor choice"
pretty well. :)
Russell Watson
<snip some reasonable reasoning>
I, OTOH, studiously avoided "Superboy" comics. I saw the '50s live
action and '60s animated Superman shows before I really started
reading comics on any serious level and already had it fixed in my
mind that Superman debuted the costume and didn't meet Lois Lane and
others until he moved to Metropolis as an adult, so the very idea of
Superboy was ludicrous to me. I didn't like kid superheroes or kid
sidekicks then and still don't.
jayembee
> jayembee <jayembe...@snurcher.com> wrote:
>
>> It just struck me...I'm getting the ominous feeling that this
>> will turn out to be Talia Head.
>
> Wrong mythos.
Shrug. Talia *did* show up in the Superman comics briefly some
years back. She took over as CEO of LexCorp when Luthor became
President.
But no matter, as I'm sure that the producers don't care if any
characters are specific to the Superman mythos rather than from
the larger DC mythos.
> And Helen Slater is already playing Lara anyway.
So what? Terence Stamp was General Zod in SUPERMAN II. That
doesn't mean he had to play the same character in SMALLVILLE,
so why does Slater having voiced Talia in B:TAS mean only she
could play Talia in SMALLVILLE?
-- jayembee
Forge
jayembe...@snurcher.com says...
That and the addition of yet another ridiculous T and A character, I'm
outta there too.
Forge
says...
> >>Michael Rosenbaum's departure was preceded by "a vaguely defensible reason
> >>to watch this show" which amoosed-vay at least 5 years ago.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > How about "a pleasant enough way to pass an hour each before the
> > inevitability of death, especially when the other choice is Survivor?"
> > --
>
> False dichotomy. There is a third choice: turn off the TV and do something
> else. ;-)
No joke; if your only choices are Season-8 Smallville, or Survivor, I'd
say either "pick up a Vonnegut novel" or "a nice game of Chutes &
Ladders with the grandkids" would both be far, far better choices.
Anim8rFSK
jayembee <jayembe...@snurcher.com> wrote:
> Anim8rFSK <ANIM...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > jayembee <jayembe...@snurcher.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It just struck me...I'm getting the ominous feeling that this
> >> will turn out to be Talia Head.
> >
> > Wrong mythos.
>
> Shrug. Talia *did* show up in the Superman comics briefly some
> years back. She took over as CEO of LexCorp when Luthor became
> President.
>
> But no matter, as I'm sure that the producers don't care if any
> characters are specific to the Superman mythos rather than from
> the larger DC mythos.
I'd actually prefer Talia to anybody I can think of in the Superman
mythos that would fit this description. Was she even hinted at in
Batman Begins?
>
> > And Helen Slater is already playing Lara anyway.
>
> So what? Terence Stamp was General Zod in SUPERMAN II. That
> doesn't mean he had to play the same character in SMALLVILLE,
> so why does Slater having voiced Talia in B:TAS mean only she
> could play Talia in SMALLVILLE?
GEEK TEST.
You lose.
:-D
Anim8rFSK
Russell Watson <russell...@comcast.net> wrote:
but but but
Legion!
Krypto!
Russell Watson
wrote:
I also don't like superheroes in groups (FF and X-Men being the
exception because they originated as a team). never read LOSH, JSA or
JLA or The Avengers as a kid for that reason.
>
>Krypto!
Yeah, did they ever "explain" why he had a super dog as a kid that
mysteriously disappeared and was enevr seen again after he became an
adult?
Audie Murphy's Ghost
<russell...@comcast.net> wrote:
Krypto was in the Superman books during the Silver Age fairly
frequently. He disappeared for some years but reappeared in a 1975
Bronze Age story.
Anim8rFSK
Russell Watson <russell...@comcast.net> wrote:
So Doom Patrol is okay, but World's Finest isn't?
>
> >
> >Krypto!
>
> Yeah, did they ever "explain" why he had a super dog as a kid that
> mysteriously disappeared and was enevr seen again after he became an
> adult?
Krypto showed up sporadically in Superman. Pretty much he was off on
his own exploring space and time. He was in the Legion of Super-Pets,
and, Rao help us, the Space Canine Patrol Agency. Remember, Krypto (the
real Krypto) was as smart as a standard issue human, so there's no
reason not to let him run around and do what he wants. He's in the last
Silver Age Superman adventure ever published, where he rips out the bad
guys throat with his teeth (!) giving his own life in the process.
Michael Alan Chary
Dougie Roberts <dougie...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>"Michael Alan Chary" <mch...@panix.com> wrote in message
>news:fvfm3o$2tl$1...@reader2.panix.com...
>> In article <fixSj.108118$Cj7.16218@pd7urf2no>,
>> Dougie Roberts <dougie...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>>Michael Rosenbaum's departure was preceded by "a vaguely defensible reason
>>>to watch this show" which amoosed-vay at least 5 years ago.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> How about "a pleasant enough way to pass an hour each before the
>> inevitability of death, especially when the other choice is Survivor?"
>> --
>
>False dichotomy. There is a third choice: turn off the TV and do something
>else. ;-)
Turn off the televison? Communist! Where's McCarty and HUAC when we
need'em?