Zod Cast For Smallville's Season 9

Smallville recently signed actor Callum Blue to portray the evil General Zod in Smallville’s upcoming Season 9.

The character of Zod has appeared on Smallville before, but only as a spirit inhabiting another body. Zod possessed the body of Lex Luthor, played by actor Michael Rosenbaum, at the end of Smallville’s fifth season.

General Zod is a longtime villain of Superman from the comics, a military leader of Krypton who tried to overthrow the government of that planet led by Jor-El, Superman’s father, and was imprisoned in the Phantom Zone for his crimes. In some comics (and on Smallville) it is insinuated that Zod’s plots led to Krypton’s destruction.

Blue, 31, is an English actor best known for his work on several series broadcast on Showtime. Those include The Tudors, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, and Dead Like Me.

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General Zod Cast on Smallville for Season 9