As Smallville turns 25 – it first aired on October 16, 2001, if you can believe that! – star Tom Welling (Clark Kent) has once again been discussing the show’s future in the oft-discussed animated spin-off that is being developed by himself, co-star Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor), and creators Al Gough and Miles Millar.
The series aims to stop the passage of time by bringing back all the original stars of the series and telling the story of what happens next, now that Clark has finally taken on the mantle of Superman.
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Last March Gough hinted that the creation of the new DCU and the then-in-production Superman caused the new Smallville series a few problems, but that now seems to be past, and Welling seems hopeful that a return to the Kent Farm is now possible again: “It was an uphill battle before the whole merger thing, and I don’t pretend to understand any of that. But I think this is a labor of love for the fans.
“The idea would be that it would be animated, but all the original cast members would voice their characters, and every cast member we’ve talked to has been like, ‘That would be awesome. Let’s do it.’
The star reveals that they have developed the show’s look and even has a poster!: “We have some early renderings from an artist, we have a poster for it already that, obviously, we can’t share, but the actual answer is Warner Bros. has to give us the green light. They have to let us use their IP, and that just hasn’t happened yet. But we’re still fighting. Yeah, we’re optimistic about it.”
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Fans will recall that the last time we saw Welling as Clark was in the Arrowverse’s Crisis on Infinite Earths in 2019 but in that version of the story, Clark had stopped being Superman and had even given his powers up.
Thankfully, we live in a world where Multiverses are a thing and this doesn’t have to be the same Clark we met in Smallville but rather another version of him, meaning with this new series, they can tell the story they wanted to tell without undoing anything we saw in the Arrowverse: “Al and Miles have very much said that they’d be on board. In my mind, it would pick up relatively quickly after Smallville ended, and we would do our own spin on what happens after that. That’s my idea. Whether that’s the case, I don’t know.”
Personally, I think this is a great idea – Smallville has its detractors but it played a big part in where we are today in superhero shows and movies and without it, we would certainly never have had the massive world of The Arrowverse and I also know the show is still well loved and has many, many fans around today that would be very excited to see what happened next.
Am I one of them? Damn right I am.
Thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all.
Source: Screenrant
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