Rosenbaum, Kreuk, Gough, & Millar All Exiting "Smallville"

[RebelMan]

Report: Lana, Lex leaving "Smallville"
By Tim Surette - TV.com
March 5, 2008 at 11:54:00 AM

Site says Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum may only be on board for Smallville's eighth season as guests.

When Kristin Kreuk began playing Lana Lang on the drama Smallville, she was 18 years old. Now in her prime at 25, the actress is apparently looking to branch out and make the transition to superstardom.

According to the snoops over at TVGuide.com, Kreuk is asking to not be back as a regular for Smallville's recently announced eighth season. The report states that both Kreuk and Michael Rosenbaum (who plays young Lex Luthor on the show) have essentially given notice that when the show goes back into production for what is likely its final season, they don't want to return as stars, but wouldn't mind dropping in for a few episodes.

Both Kreuk and Rosenbaum are two of four actors to be regulars since the show's inception (Allison Mack and Tom Welling being the others), and losing half of the show's core could be seen as a bit of a problem. However, Smallville has plenty of superpower left over thanks to the additions of several recurring Justice League characters such as The Green Arrow (Justin Hartley) and The Black Canary (Alaina Kalanj), as well as new series regular Supergirl (Laura Vandervoort).

As for Kreuk, her star is long overdue for a meteoric rise and it looks as though she's making the transition to feature films. The Canadian actress recently signed on to star as classic video game character Chun-Li in the upcoming Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

Rosenbaum does not have any announced future projects, but by leaving Smallville, he will finally be able to prove that he does in fact have hair.


Gough & Millar Exiting "Smallville"
Source: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
April 3, 2008


"Smallville" creators and executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have announced they are not staying on for the eighth season of the show. They sent out the following open letter:

As the creators of "Smallville" we look back at 7 amazing years. We look back at 152 episodes. We look back knowing that the show will continue into Season 8 without us. After much heartache and debate we have decided it is time for us to move on.

Over the last 7 years we have had the honor of working with a remarkable team of people here in Los Angeles and in Vancouver. We have been blessed with a wonderful cast who we have watched mature with admiration and affection. We have been rewarded with a fan base that is as loyal as it is vocal.

We are incredibly proud of our work on this show. We achieved what we set out to do. We never compromised our vision. We leave knowing that "Smallville" is the longest-running comic book based series of all-time. The show was featured on the covers of Rolling Stone, MAD magazine, TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly. The pilot had the highest-rated premiere in the history of the WB. Even in its seventh year it is still the #1 scripted show on the network. "Smallville" is watched by millions of people in hundreds of countries and in dozens of languages around the world.

The show's success is a credit to a fantastically talented group of people. We wanted to take this chance to single some of them out. Our writers – your work speaks for itself. James, Jae, Rob, David – the backbone of our team in Vancouver. Joe Davola, Chris and Shelly – remember those Friday night brainstorming sessions? Len Goldstein and Steve Pearlman – thanks for believing we could do this. David Nutter – for giving the show your magic touch. John Litvack – when the knives were out, you always had our backs. Ken Horton – our Yoda. Peter Roth – Smallville's biggest fan. Melinda, Michael R., Paul M., Susan and Suzanne – for steering us through 152 episodes. Greg Beeman – your passion is an inspiration. Jordan, David, Garth, Carolyn, Bob & Lew – and everyone at the much-missed WB. Paul Levitz, Greg Noveck and the guys at DC Comics. Lisa Lewis – our very own soccer mom/mafia accountant. Michael Gendler – aka mega-counsel. David Lubliner – we can finally focus on features now. And last but in no way the least, Renee Kurtz – the smartest TV agent in town, we would be nowhere without you!

Finally, to the fans who have stuck with us through the highs and the lows: know this – we never stopped fighting to make this show great. Thanks for watching.

Alfred Gough & Miles Millar

[Ar3d]

she has need to be included in the next season of smallville, as we all know that she been big part of the success of the series.

[rlm]

as of late, kristin has not really been doing a lot on the show. it seems like the writers are forced to write scenes just to include her. they've already done everything they can with her character, there's nothing more. at this point the character needs to go. besides she will show up here and there but she really needs to go and do bigger things, movies and such.

i've found it funny how she'll only show up in like two scenes per episode lately, that is unless the show is a lana episode. also in a recent episode they wrote her out halfway through the episode. both lana and chloe go and free kara from the luthor mansion. their plan to grab kara and take her to the fortress of solitude and have jor'el restore her memory. both chloe and lana take kara out and then suddenly, poof, only chloe is at the fortress with kara. lana didn't even show up for the rest of the ep. i wish kristin the best on her future projects, cuz really we need to see more of her out there and not on smallville where her character is no longer needed.

as for lex, it's sad he'll be going. he'll stop by in certain episodes but really lex is just starting to become the evil genius we all know and hate or love or whatever. but that character has a lot more in it.

and now with the original creators of the show gone, certain rules might change...like the no flight thing. new people will be in charge and they could decide to finally have clark fly. although with the tights thing, tom welling has said that he won't be wearing any tights ever.

[SilverSpoon]

Good, Lana is such a crummy character, and Lex is getting tiresome. We get it, he's got stuff going on. Let's move on.

[Wolf]

Canada seems cold.

[rlm]

well obviously lana is said to be coming back for several episodes. i read that it might just be 4 episodes. as for lex, his character will apparantly just go missing. michael rosenbaum stated that he won't be returning at all which doesn't make sense. how in the world are they going to explain his dissapearance? also it wouldn't make sense to bring michael back towards the end of the season and have him shave his head all over again. just for a bit part.