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Smallville was developed for television by the writer-producer duo of Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, who previously wrote together on films such as The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2.

The pair originally got the idea to helm a Clark Kent origin series after producers had unsuccessfully pitched a Batman series to the network which was set to focus on Bruce Wayne in the years before he donned the iconic mask.

Once the Batman project fizzled out, the duo pitched Warner Brothers executives on a no-frills story that would focus on Kent developing his worldview as a morally conscious young man, getting his start as a journalist with the Daily Bugle.