SDCC: SMALLVILLE SCREENING AND Q&A SATURDAY JULY 28
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The line an hour before the panel already wrapped around the extra large screening room, down the corridor and made a U-turn snaking its way back up the corridor and around the corner. Excited Smallville fanatics filled their way into the screening room eagerly awaiting the promised sneak peek at season seven of the successful young Clark Kent WB series.
They were greeted by moderator Rich Sands, TV Guide Senior Editor. The screening they were presented to consisted primarily of fast flashes of most all plot points they've already seen over the past six years with a focus on the season finale of season six: the face of Bizarro turning to stone as he flies from the crumbling dam. The last short portion was flashes from the upcoming season seven. Bizarro's face was somehow flesh
again, a sheet was whipped over Cloe's face (only to have what looked like her sit up again in the morgue), Clark fought Bizarro, and Lara Zor-El, when talking to Clark about his inability to fly, made the witty response, "I guess girls really do mature faster than boys."
With the screening portion over, Sands introduced the panelists: Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, Martian Manhunter Phillip Morris, Oliver Queen himself Justin Hartley, Lois Lane - Erica Durance, and introducing Supergirl Laura Vandervoort. Tom Welling was shooting in Vancouver covering for both Clark and Bizarro and Michael Rosenbaum was absent from the panel due to back surgery.
A few teasers were dropped. Dean Cain will appear in the fourth episode of the season (met with applause) as a villain (met with boos). The Justice League will return with Green Arrow's reappearance late in the season. Lois will take her place at the Daily Planet moving toward her role as an investigative reporter. And the much publicised emergence of Kara Zor-El will start with the season and last throughout. Both she and Jon Jones will play large parts in the first few episodes of the season.
Gough and Millar went on to say that Kara arrived on earth in the same meteor shower that Clark did, but she remained in stasis at the bottom of the river so, even though she was older than Clark/Kal-El when they left Krypton, she will only be 19 in the show. She'll have powers that Clark does not, like flying, and will be able to share El family "secrets" and facts about the destruction of Krypton with Clark. When asked if Clark will fly this season, Gough and Millar only hinted that Kara will be trying to teach him how to fly, but that doesn't mean he's going to be good at it.
They volleyed a few questions from comic fans about the continuity differences between the comics and the show responding that their continuity was not the same and really hasn't been from the beginning.
Smallville was to be a completely new start for new fans. But they did shatter any hopes that Bruce Wayne would ever be a part of Smallville saying that Warner Brothers proper will not allow for the use of the character due to the relaunch of the film franchise, but they did say that they will continue to try to incorporate Wonder Woman at some point.
The final treat for the audience was a covered box at the end of the panel table. When the cover was pulled back, the room of eyes became the first to set sights on the prototypes for a new line of Justice League action figures to release in May of 2008. The seventh season of Smallville is set to premiere Thursday September 27.
They were greeted by moderator Rich Sands, TV Guide Senior Editor. The screening they were presented to consisted primarily of fast flashes of most all plot points they've already seen over the past six years with a focus on the season finale of season six: the face of Bizarro turning to stone as he flies from the crumbling dam. The last short portion was flashes from the upcoming season seven. Bizarro's face was somehow flesh
again, a sheet was whipped over Cloe's face (only to have what looked like her sit up again in the morgue), Clark fought Bizarro, and Lara Zor-El, when talking to Clark about his inability to fly, made the witty response, "I guess girls really do mature faster than boys."
With the screening portion over, Sands introduced the panelists: Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, Martian Manhunter Phillip Morris, Oliver Queen himself Justin Hartley, Lois Lane - Erica Durance, and introducing Supergirl Laura Vandervoort. Tom Welling was shooting in Vancouver covering for both Clark and Bizarro and Michael Rosenbaum was absent from the panel due to back surgery.
A few teasers were dropped. Dean Cain will appear in the fourth episode of the season (met with applause) as a villain (met with boos). The Justice League will return with Green Arrow's reappearance late in the season. Lois will take her place at the Daily Planet moving toward her role as an investigative reporter. And the much publicised emergence of Kara Zor-El will start with the season and last throughout. Both she and Jon Jones will play large parts in the first few episodes of the season.
Gough and Millar went on to say that Kara arrived on earth in the same meteor shower that Clark did, but she remained in stasis at the bottom of the river so, even though she was older than Clark/Kal-El when they left Krypton, she will only be 19 in the show. She'll have powers that Clark does not, like flying, and will be able to share El family "secrets" and facts about the destruction of Krypton with Clark. When asked if Clark will fly this season, Gough and Millar only hinted that Kara will be trying to teach him how to fly, but that doesn't mean he's going to be good at it.
They volleyed a few questions from comic fans about the continuity differences between the comics and the show responding that their continuity was not the same and really hasn't been from the beginning.
Smallville was to be a completely new start for new fans. But they did shatter any hopes that Bruce Wayne would ever be a part of Smallville saying that Warner Brothers proper will not allow for the use of the character due to the relaunch of the film franchise, but they did say that they will continue to try to incorporate Wonder Woman at some point.
The final treat for the audience was a covered box at the end of the panel table. When the cover was pulled back, the room of eyes became the first to set sights on the prototypes for a new line of Justice League action figures to release in May of 2008. The seventh season of Smallville is set to premiere Thursday September 27.
