arctic blast

There ya go… the first images of what Hawkman will look like in a set of upcoming Smallville episodes.  I wonder if it’s on purpose that we don’t get the best look we could get at Hawkman, or what?  If I didn’t know any better I’d say it was a photo shopped pic, but they’re saying this is the real deal.

Any way, TV Guide got some one on one time with Michael Shanks, (Stargate SG-1, The Eastmans[2009], Arctic Blast[2010], Stargate: Revolution[2010]) who will be playing Carter Hall aka Hawkman, and the pair of episodes that were originally going to air over 2 different weeks, is now being pulled together into what The CW Network is calling a “movie” event.

In this movie, We will be meeting an older group of heroes called the Justice Society.  This will be Hawkman, Dr. Fate and Stargirl.

We’ll learn a little bit about this Carter Hall / Hawkman, who is a reincarnated prince and why he carries around such cynicism and guilt.

We’ll find out why our small group of heroes from Smallville never knew about the Justice Society up until now.

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Michael Shanks at the sci fi movie Stargate Continuum Premiere at the 2008 Comic-Con

So as I go through Stargate withdrawals waiting for Stargate Universe to premiere, I started wondering about some of the cast from the previous shows.

Michael Shanks… what’s he up to these days.

He’s busy, that’s for sure.  When I watched him host the Burn Notice panel at 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, I just have to wonder if he were at the table, if he would have stolen the show like Bruce Campbell did?  I say that because Michael has this incredibly fine tuned snark processor that is on-key with the moment.  What little interaction he did have with panel questions was fracking hilarious.

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