Deadline and its sister site TVLine are reporting that after months of "will he/won't he" reports, Michael Rosenbaum will return as Lex Luthor is the series finale of Smallville on May 13th.
Rosenbaum played Lex Luthor for seven seasons on Smallville and as the show entered its tenth and final season, fans (and one suspects, producers) began to wonder if Rosenbaum would return for the finale. Much like the speculation surrounding George Clooney and his return to ER, it seemed like every week there was a new report on the status of a possible return by Rosenbaum. "He's done with the show." "He's thinking about it." "He's moved on." "Tom Welling got him drunk and made a case for him to come back." "He's run out of razors blades." No one knew what to think and as late as Friday morning the report was that he would definitely not be coming back for the finale.
In the story on Deadline, Rosenbaum has said of his return, "I'm simply doing it for all of the fans out there who made Smallville the great success it is. II 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 badass he's destined to be."
Fans of the show will no doubt welcome back Rosenbaum, who was always the best actor on the show. It is fitting that he will be back to close out the show and pit Lex Luthor against, hopefully, Superman. It wouldn't have been right to end 10 years without Clark's greatest enemy.
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