2011 TV News Archives

February 17, 2011: Al Gough Interview About "Smallville"

Smallville The Baltimore Sun caught up with "Smallville" co-creator Al Gough to look back at 10 years of the hit TV series and reminice about where it all began.

    "The idea that Kryptonite gave normal people powers was an idea that sustained the series -- also, that Lex Luthor was in Smallville as well. At the time we were burned in effigy on the Internet. I went back to my old high school a year and a half ago and there were seniors who had started watching when they were eight or nine -- and this show had become this generation's understanding of Superman.

    "Of course, the next people who start it up will be hated at first, too. I mean, when they took the first Superman film to Comicon, they hated it. There's a certain level of Superman fan you're never going to please.

    "But when they screened the pilot of 'Smallville' for the DC writers in New York, and they really liked it, you felt you got a seal of approval. When they finally saw it, the editor of the comic book at the time, Jenette Kahn, said a lot of them were saying, 'Why hadn't we thought of that before' -- the highest compliment to get from people that live and breathe Superman on a daly basis and have for decades."

Read the complete interview at BaltimoreSun.com.



2011 Television News

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