Michael Rosenbaum is back as Lex Luthor. Finally.

With only three episodes to shoot and the entire production slated to complete in the coming seven weeks, seemingly, all hopes for a final reprisal performance by Michael Rosenbaum to return as series favorite Lex Luthor in the series finale looked certainly to be smashed apart. Until now.

After a long period of intense anticipation and speculation from fans of the series, in an exclusive interview to TVLine , actor Michael Rosenbaum has confirmed that he will be reprising his role as Smallville's Lex Luthor in the two-hour season finale set to be aired May 13th.

In the exclusive interview with TVLine , Rosenbaum commented:

"I’m delighted to return for the series finale. I’m simply doing it for all of the fans out there who made Smallville the great success it is. I 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 bad-ass he’s destined to be.

It feels like the stars are aligning, literally. We couldn’t be more excited. And as far as the way he returns… there’ll be no doubt about how Lex becomes the great rival in Clark Kent’s life. He is the villain of the story."

For someone who had been on an on-again, off again viewing relationship with the TV series even during its peak in the earlier seasons, this is an incredible development that entice even myself.

While Smallville's interpretation of Lex Luthor has been too dark and brooding for my liking, a final showdown (most probably just a stare-down) between Superman and his arch-nemesis on the day he debuted as the Man of Steel is really something worth waiting for.

Stay tuned for some epic superhero TV moment this May.

Source: TVLine