Who's Been Duped on Smallville? Find Out
The Smallville season premiere is still weeks away, but my inbox has been overloaded with questions regarding L.L.—not Mr. Cool J (though we have scoop on him today) or Lindsay Lohan, mind you, but one Miss Lana Lang.
Yes, she might have been blown to smithereens in last May's season finale, but as my crack team announced in the spoiler chat on Monday, Kristin Kreuk has signed on for the upcoming season and Lana will definitely be back. So, inquiring fans want to know, how the bloody hell are the writers gonna pull off that?!
Well, Big, Fat Spoiler Alert! Let me be the first to tell you the inside storyline scoop: Lana's salvation involves cloning. Yep, you heard me right. Cloning! The Francinator and Buffy Bot had better step aside, because TV has a new Doublemint twin of freaky-deaky generation.
I'll tell you more in Monday's chat, but for now you gotta tell me in the Comments section below: Am I the only one giggling at the thought of Lana 2.0? I mean, this is Smallville, and I'm sure the writers will knock it out of the park, but I just can't shake the feeling Clana's genesis will somehow involve lonely Lex, a bottle of tequila and a little weird science.
Allison Mack will be in Smallville next season after all
Smallville fans, you can finally resume breathing. The last few weeks have been a roller coaster due to the fact the two creators left the show, because of the departure of Michael Rosenbaum and the announcement that two new regulars would join and because of contract negotiations for Kristin Kreuk and Allison Mack.
It was confirmed pretty early on that Kreuk would only be a part-timer next season. However, Mack’s future with the show was up in the air. Actually, it was even talked that she would not be returning because she couldn’t reach an agreement with The CW show. The latter news was supported by the fact her name was omitted earlier this week in the network’s Upfront press release.
TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello breaks the news today that Mack inked a deal with the show to be a series regular next season. According to his sources, the actress will appear in all episodes of Season 8. I’m relieved that Mack will stick around because she is my favorite character on the series. Are you happy she is sticking around or would you have preferred to have Chloe leave Smallville and Metropolis for good?
Show regulars for Season 8 of the series are expected to be Tom Welling, Laura Vandervoort, Erica Durance, Aaron Ashmore and Allison Mack as well as the two actors who’ll play Davis “Doomsday” Bloom and new female character Tess. Kristin Kreuk may be billed as a regular but, as I’ve said before, she will only appear in a few episodes.
Black Eyed Peas to Star in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
In Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Budd has to clean up a particularly fouled strip club restroom, and right now I have to write a Black Eyed Peas casting post. Night capping the last few days of X-Men Origins: Wolverine news, BEP member will.i.am (the one who looks like Wyclef) will star as John Wraith aka Wraith aka Kestrel, a mutant with teleportation powers and a thing for explosives who, in comic canon, belonged to Team X alongside Wolverine, Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), Maverick, Mastodon and Silverfox (Lynn Collins). This casting news arrives via IESB. The musician-actor, real name William James Abrams, Jr., previously starred on the TV show Cane, and the big budget film marks his feature debut. No word if he’ll contribute to the soundtrack or will have a scene teaching Gambit how to rap obnoxiously.
In a flick more befitting a BEP, rapper Taboo (the one who looks like he has a crystal skull), will star in 2009’s Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, the second big screen incarnation of Capcom’s classic video game series. Taboo’s role has not been officially announced, but First Showing speculates he might be up for the still unfilled roles of Ryu, Ken, or Guile. If so, total hilarity. Also joining the film, which is directed by Doom’s Andrzej Bartkowiak, are American Pie’s Chris Klein (as Nash), the formidable Michael Clark Duncan (as Balrog), Korean American actor Rick Yune (Gen), and others. Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk is in the title role. Did Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia teach our society nothing in 1994?
Allison Mack Biography
Allison Mack (born July 29, 1982) is a German-American film and television actress.
She was born in Preetz, Germany, but moved to the United States when she was two.
She then began studying at The Young Actors Space in Los Angeles when she was seven. She currently stars as Chloe Sullivan on the WB series Smallville. She and co-star Kristin Kreuk have become close friends.
Mack began acting at the age of four in commercials for “German Chocolate”. She then went into modeling for a short period because her mother thought she “looked cute in clothes.” Her first major TV role came in an episode of the WB series 7th Heaven, where she gained a lot of attention playing a teenager who cut herself.
In 2000, she starred in two short-lived series: Hiller and Diller and Opposite Sex. She also starred along-side Sam Jones III in an R. L. Stine miniseries The Nightmare Room. Her filmography includes Eric Stoltz’s directorial debut My Horrible Year!, where she plays a girl having great difficulties in her life as she turns sixteen, and Camp Nowhere.
In the summer of 2006 Mack’s voice will be heard as the sister of the main character in the Warner Bros. CGI movie, The Ant Bully.