Chriqui, a Montreal-born actress, has been a perennial presence on the television and film scene, and was most recently seen last year as a regular on Fox’s short-lived vampire/outbreak drama, The Passage, and Netflix holiday feature The Knight Before Christmas. She’s fielded other notable small screen runs on Shut Eye, Murder in the First, Cleaners, The Mentalist and Entourage, along with roles in films such as Super Troopers 2, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan and Wrong Turn.
However, the presence of Chriqui’s Lana on Superman & Lois will also contrast with the show’s family dynamic, with DC’s first couple now dealing with their two very different twin teenage sons, Jonathan and Jordan, played by Jordan Elsass and Alexander Garfin, respectively. The existence of said twin teens came about after events of the recent continuity-spanning mega-crossover event, Crisis on Infinite Earths, which altered the couple’s initial parental path of having one infant son, sparing the series from the early Full House-esque task of working around an infant in exchange for the increasingly complex perils of adolescence.
Setbacks notwithstanding, Superman & Lois will operate under the purview of showrunner Todd Helbing, a former executive producer of fellow Arrowverse series The Flash. He will be joined in the show’s creative coalition by (the small screen continuity’s main maestro,) Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter (representing Greg Berlanti Productions,) and DC’s Geoff Johns. Warner Bros. Television will produce the series alongside Greg Berlanti Productions.
Superman & Lois doesn’t have a release date to cite as of yet. The pilot—initially greenlit back in late October—was designed to film during pilot season (conventionally the first quarter of the year,) to kick off a 13-episode inaugural season run. However, the COVID-19 pandemic proved to be the industry’s Kryptonite (temporarily, anyway), halting those plans. Consequently, as with anything in the world right now, it is uncertain as to when we’ll get to see the series launch. Yet, the casting of Emmanuelle Chriqui for this crucial character clearly proves that The CW is still optimistic enough about its temporarily-halted plans.
