2011 TV News Archives

May 8, 2011: Greg Beeman Looks Back Fondly on "Smallville"

Greg Beeman with Tom Welling Greg Beeman, director/producer on "Smallville" for a substantial portion of the show's ten year run, looks back at his time on the series via his official blog...

    With this show, there was already an amazing pilot and the series was already up and running by the time I got there in 2001. Peter Roth, the president of Warner Brothers Television, is an incredibly passionate man. He had been really wanting to do a "Young Superman" series. Peter Roth's passion was really the fuel that drove SMALLVILLE to its heights - especially in the early years. Most of you know the history of this - how Peter had brought in Mike Tollin and Brian Robbins to develop a young Bruce Wayne show and when that fell apart the idea evolved to make it young Superman. So they brought in a number of writers to pitch concepts. Al Gough and Miles Millar had been one of several - but they were the ones with a brilliant and original take on the material. They're concept has been documented as "No flights/No tights" - a version which insisted on developing Clark Kent before he had glasses and the suit.

    But, for me, their most exceptional idea was that Kal-El's spaceship came to Earth hidden in the kryptonite meteor shower, which was the destroyed remnants of Krypton. Besides the authentic teen emotion, the concept that the kryptonite rocks could mutate people into super-powered freaks based on their psychology, was what made the series work. I know a lot of fans complained about the "freak of the week" aspect to the early seasons - but any TV show needs a motor to run on - and this was SMALLVILLE's.

Read the complete article at Greg Beeman's official blog.



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