'Superman & Lois' Final Season Production Has Begun
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s the script of the fourth and final season premiere!
Production has officially taken flight on the fourth and final season of The CW’s last comic adaptation standing, Superman & Lois. Unlike most networks returning from the strike, who have their scripted shows returning mostly in January or February, the CW’s survivors carrying on from the previous regime are starting production a little later expected to premiere closer to the spring.
It was Bitsie Tulloch, who plays Lois Lane, who posted to Threads “Off we go…🚀🚀🚀 SupermanAndLois” with a picture of the script of the fourth and final season premiere, revealing its title “The End & The Beginning”, written by Brent Fletcher and Todd Helbing. Directed by Gregory Smith, this may well show a bit of Clark (played by Tyler Hoechlin)’s adversarial history with Lex Luthor (played by Michael Cudlitz) from his prime, per se. Or it could just be the end of the old status quo and the beginning of the new one that sheds more than half a dozen of season 3’s series regulars.
However, it was a comment of a single praise hands emoji from DC Studios head James Gunn that drew a lot of eyeballs. Gunn has been very supportive of the show, quoted as having given it the leeway of letting it run a little longer than it was ultimately given by the network. This is of course as he builds the next live-action iteration of the Big Blue Boy Scout, writing and directing David Corenswet in the film to kick off the new DC Universe: Superman: Legacy, also starring Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. While the same iterations of characters in the universe will be appearing across TV, film, and animation, it is unclear what Superman’s future in live action TV will be, as the five series announced for the new DC Universe don’t lend to appearances yet, or if an Elseworld iteration in such format will exist, it’s far too soon to tell. Only Peacemaker having a second season tells of any of these series not just being miniseries.
Superman & Lois will have premiered in midseason for all four seasons, starting off so because the regime of the time (and most of the network’s history) chose to forego fall in the wake of COVID and the entire slate would rollout in early 2021, and now this show is bookended by another completely different work stoppage. With its shortest season of 10 episodes down from 13 last season and 15 in its first 2, the show could finish with another March to June run similar to last year. The series also stars Michael Bishop and Alex Garfin as Clark and Lois’s sons Jonathan and Jordan Kent. Superman: Legacy is set to release in theaters on July 11, 2025, which means if Superman & Lois had managed to reach a fifth season, it likely would’ve ended there and still had no overlap with the oncoming iteration.
