{"id":639,"date":"2026-01-16T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=639"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:30:19","slug":"smallville-the-cult-tv-show-that-inspired-james-gunns-superman-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Smallville: The Cult TV Show That Inspired James Gunn&#8217;s Superman Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Gunn\u2019s 2025 movie <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/movie\/superman-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Superman<\/em><\/strong><\/a> may have been hailed as a brilliantly original take on the iconic big-screen superhero, but the writer-director owes a debt of gratitude to cult franchise TV show <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/smallville\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Smallville<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Now, 25 years on from when it first aired on television, the show is experiencing a resurgence in popularity around the world.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Gunn\u2019s 2025 movie Superman may have been hailed as a brilliantly original take on the iconic big-screen superhero, but the writer-director owes a debt of gratitude to cult franchise TV show Smallville. Now, 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}