He was killed by a robotic assassin in
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles last spring, and now
Brian Austin Green is coming back to TV as a different kind of cyborg. In a two-episode arc on
Smallville (beginning with the September 25 season premiere), Green plays John Corben, a new
Daily Planet reporter who becomes the comic-book villain
Metallo. In the aftermath of an accident, Corben is mysteriously outfitted with a heart made of kryptonite. Executive producer Kelly Souders won’t reveal the identity of his Frankenstein-esque savoir, but says Corben is turned into “a rough version of Metallo, a first attempt at the technology, and eventually he’ll get sleeker.” So might we see him again? “Well of course—it’s
Smallville,” she says with a laugh. “We’re actually throwing some ideas around right now in the hopes that we might be able to bring him back for another episode.”