12:00 AM, 25-JANUARY-05
Smallville, Superman Won't Conflict
Miles Millar, executive producer of the WB series Smallville, told SCI FI Wire that the formerly chilly relations between the show's creative staff and the feature development team at Warner Brothers have thawed since Bryan Singer signed on to direct a new Superman Returns movie. "It's been much better," Millar said in an interview at The WB's winter press preview in Burbank, Calif. "Bryan Singer's a fan of the show, and we sat down and had dinner with him and the writers of the movie [Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris], who we know as well. There's been much more of a dialogue than there was with the J.J. [Abrams] and McG movie. So it's been much better, and we really feel that we're attuned and aligned and know what each other is doing so we don't step on each other's toes. So we're really happy with how it's going."
Millar said that the writing staff of Smallville has always taken the future of the Superman universe into account when writing stories, but they have had to work within strict guidelines established by the studio. At least one of the studio's edicts?that no Kryptonian characters be shown on-screen?is still in place, according to Millar. "Jor-El will feature later on this season," he said. "He's not going to be [on screen], but we're cool with that now. It's fine."
Millar confirmed that the voice of Superman's father will once again be provided by Elektra actor Terence Stamp, who also played the villainous General Zod in 1978's Superman movie and its sequel, Superman II, and voiced Jor-El in Smallville's second and third seasons. Smallville airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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