Fifteen years after Smallville wrapped up, one of its stars is once again talking about how the story may yet continue.
Lex Luthor star Michael Rosenbaum has been discussing – not for the first time – bringing the world of Superman back to the fans only this time, it will continue in animated form.
We first reported on this back in 2021 when Rosenbaum revealed he and Superman/Clark Kent star Tom Welling were developing the show (here) and then in 2022 Welling updated the news, saying the plan was looking good and they were hopeful to get the original all the cast back (probably not ALL the cast at this stage, let’s be honest) and now Rosenbaum has revealed that he’s still hopeful but we might have to wait a while longer for it.
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“We have Al and Miles [ Alfred Gough and Miles Millar], the creators of Smallville backing us up. When it’s the right time, we’d like to go and do this; pitch to Warner Bros. It has to be the right time, and right now is not the right time; we had the strike, we had a change of executives at DC — one being one of my best friends in the world, James Gunn.
“When the time’s right, I think it’s something that’s a no-brainer, unless they have other ideas. We’d like to do it — the whole cast would like to do it. They would voice their own character from the show, and we have a concept of what the show is.”
There’s no denying that Smallville still has a big following and when Welling appeared in the Arrowverse’s Crisis on Infinite Earths as Clark Kent a few years back, it was massive news for fans and, let’s be honest, had it not been for Smallville, there would never have been an Arrowverse, so it’s hard to argue with Rosenbaum’s ‘no-brainer’ argument.
Let’s just hope that James Gunn really is that good a friend and can see the vision of bringing the world of Smallville back to the fans.
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Source: Screenrant
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