Smallville fans, your prayers (and internet flak) have been answered! After much declining, Michael Rosenbaum will indeed be returning as Lex Luthor for the coming CW series two-hour finale on May 13, 2011. Even just a few days ago, there were reports that Rosenbaum was still not going to be returning to the show, but it seems that Rosenbaum has finally come to his senses and has officially inked a deal to reprise his role as Lex. Rosenbaum tells TVLine that his return to Smallville is for the fans:
“I’m delighted to return for the series finale. I’m simply doing it for all of the fans out there who made Smallville the great success it is. I appreciate all of their passion, their relentlessness, and even their threats. Ha ha.
I can’t wait to hug the old crew back in Vancouver one last time and see all of my old friends once again. Oh, and for Lex to become the bad-ass he’s destined to be.”
And you can practically hear showrunners Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders’ fingertips drumming against each other as they plot the much anticipated return of Lex Luthor:
“It feels like the stars are aligning, literally. We couldn’t be more excited. And as far as the way he returns… there’ll be no doubt about how Lex becomes the great rival in Clark Kent’s life. He is the villain of the story.”
Star and executive producer Tom Welling couldn’t see the series concluding without Lex either. When the series was announced to be on its last season, Welling stated:
“With Clark propelled into being Superman, how do you do it without a Lex Luthor? That just doesn’t make sense to me.”
Well, fans, what do you think? How that for icing on the Smallville cake?
Watch the remaining episodes for Smallville’s tenth and final season on the CW, Fridays at 8/7C.
