'Superman & Lois' Cast Say Goodbye As Filming Wraps; Series Finale Title Revealed
'Superman & Lois' Cast Say Goodbye As Filming Wraps; Series Finale Title Revealed
The CW’s final DC Comics-based series will air its ten-episode final season this fall
When Superman Day happened on April 19, Superman & Lois’s Lois Lane, star Bitsie Tulloch remarked that there were only four days left of filming the CW series’s fourth and final season. Now, those days have passed, and she, and a few other familiar faces, have been saying gheir.
Filming for the series finale began on April 12, and on that day she shared some pics of herself in her dressing room, writing on her socials “Tried to take a normal ‘First day of filming the #SupermanAndLois series finale!’ selfie, but quickly ended up in tears. What a beautiful ride this has been. So grateful. Especially to our crew – this final season has been tough physically and emotionally on everyone and I see you and how hard you are working and I am so appreciative of you all.” Included with those dressing room selfies was the cover page of the series finale script, revealing it is titled “It Went By So Fast”, written by series executive producers Brent Fletcher and Todd Helbing, the latter of whom is the series’s developer and showrunner. It’s directed by Gregory Smith, a network veteran who began as an actor playing Ephram Brown on Everwood. He would move into directing while starring on the ABC series Rookie Blue, racking up CW directing credits not only for Superman & Lois but other Arrowverse shows including Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl, and elsewhere Riverdale and Katy Keene. His brother Douglas has been cast as this series’s iteration of Jimmy Olsen.
Then on April 23, Tulloch marked the final day, posting a message printed on her call sheet not only from the three of them, but Lisa Lewis, Ian Samoil and Melissa Crich, which read “To the best cast and crew in television. Thank you for four seasons of tireless dedication, endless enthusiasm, and your massive talent in making Superman and Lois one of the best adaptations in the Superman mythology." Emanuelle Chiriqui, seemingly confirming her return to some extent as Lana Lang after being one of the series regulars shed by budget cuts, wrote
Today marks the last day of filming the series @cwsupermanandlois What a wild ride these last 4 years have been.
We have weathered so much from COVID to Strikes and everything in between. We truly became a family. The cast and crew of this show are what dreams are made of. I am endlessly grateful for this exceptional journey.
Thank you to our incredible showrunners and writers for giving us all something to chew on. I love you all so much and will carry you in my heart always.
Special shout out to our fans that have supported us and cheered us on from the beginning. I think this final season will knock your socks off! That’s a wrap.”
Michael Cudlitz, the fourth season’s lone new series regular as perennial nemesis Lex Luthor, wrote that the role “ will forever be one of the highlights of my career… Thank you to everyone involved.” Eventually Monday came and Tulloch posted again, this time an entire thank you letter, and it read as follows:
How lucky am I, to have been able to inhabit this woman’s bones, and brain, and heart, for the last 4 years.
Lois Lane has been an icon for as long as Superman has because of her fierceness, her work ethic, her determination, her playfulness, her commitment to finding the truth no matter the cost.
Thank you to our creator Todd Helbing, co-showrunner Brent Fletcher, all of our writers and producers and post-production team, our incredible VFX department. Thank you Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, Jonathan Gabay, and everyone else at Berlanti Productions, everyone at DC Comics, @cdflix @baptv10, Lisa Lewis and everyone else at Warner Bros. TV, Mark Pedowitz and The CW, and to our phenomenal casting director David Rapaport for telling everyone “This is your Lois” and to @Jessica Queller and @rrtvwriter for seeing and believing it. Thank you @iansamoildirector and everyone else in the production office. And to our on-set crew: #SupermanAndLois was a big, beautiful, epic show and it wouldn’t have happened without each and every one of you. Thank you thank you thank you. I already miss you all so much.
Thank you to our wonderfully amazing cast - but mostly to Tyler Hoechlin. My Superman. I am so grateful for your talent, your work ethic, and your commitment to making me laugh. I wish the best of luck to James Gunn and the rest of his cast and crew, and especially to Rachel Brosnahan - I’m sure you will be a wonderful Lois and I can’t wait to see what you do with the role. Have so much fun - I know I did.
I’ll be grateful til the day I die that I had these few years to wake up every day and be
Lois. Lane.
💜
It’s definitely the end of an era. Since the fall 2001 WB premiere of Smallville, only the gap between that series finale and Arrow’s series premiere has the network not had a DC Comics adaptation airing on the network. Alex Garfin and Michael Bishop also star as Clark and Lois’s sons Jordan and Jonathan, while previous series regulars Dylan Walsh and Erik Valdez have already had their returns as Sam Lane and Kyle Cushing confirmed. In addition to Smith’s Olsen, Yvonne Chapman also joins as Amanda McCoy.
Source: Facebook, Michael Cudlitz on Twitter, Dark Horizons