As you know, Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling have been actively trying to get a Smallville sequel series off the ground that would continue the story of the original show.
There are a lot of factors and things that have to fall into place for this to happen and as of right now, all we know is that it’s going to be a long road, and there’s no guarantee that it will happen.
However, if it does happen, a lot of the actors of the original series would return to reprise their roles. Buffy the Vampire Slayer star James Marsters played one of Clark Kent’s greatest foes as Brainiac and, in a recent interview with Screen Rant, confirmed he’d be opened to reprising his role in the series.
Marsters said: “Definitely. I think that Smallville was the most intelligent character version of Superman that I’ve ever seen.
“Superman is a very difficult character to write because he’s invulnerable. Heroism is when I help somebody, even when I have to sacrifice something to help them.”
“That’s the definition, and when you have a hero movie, you have the very most exciting part [which] is when the hero has to risk his life to save someone or help someone.
“And that’s just impossible with Superman. He’s invulnerable. He’s going to be fine unless you pull out Kryptonite. Every Superman movie does that.”
Marsters continued: “There’s Kryptonite somewhere, and he’s got to risk death to do his thing. But with the television series, you can’t pull out Kryptonite every week. It gets redundant so fast. It gets cheesy. They sidestepped all that by not focusing on Clark’s physical vulnerability, which there is almost none of.”
“It was all about the fact that he was a teenager and he was vulnerable to everything, and they could explore [the] emotional vulnerability for Superman. I just thought, ‘Okay, you’ve solved it. That’s what to do.’
“And they were able to go ten years on that show and not be redundant, not be repetitive. Following that, I would love to do more of that.”
I would love nothing more than for this project to happen. Welling previously told fans: “We’ve been talking about it for a few years. We want to do a Smallville comic book and animated series, and then we would all voice the characters. We’ve already got an artist, and we have a poster.”
He talked about the poster art saying: “We haven’t been able to share it yet, but Lionel Luthor is looming over everybody, and it’s really cool, but we just we we can’t do anything without DC saying we can do it.
“They just haven’t given us a green light, but we’re ready, and Al [Gough] and Miles [Millar], who wrote Smallville, want to write it., but it’s not our property, until they say we can do it.”
Welling later admitted that a Smallville revival is unlikely to be a money-maker for Warner Bros. Discovery, but I think there’s a strong enough fanbase that it would be a success!”
He added: “It would be more of a labor of love. It’s not going to make a billion dollars, so the studio is kind of like [grumbles]. Maybe we can do a – not a GoFundMe, because that’s financial – but like a petition. We can petition Warner Bros. to let us do it.”
Rosenbaum previously teased the project saying: “Tom and I are working on a Smallville animated series that we’re trying to get made. It’s gonna take time.”
He continued: “But the creators of Smallville are attached, they want to be a part of it. And we, you know, when it’s the right time, we’ll pitch it.
“You know, we’re working on it and we have some loose animation that we’ve worked [on] with someone who was just awesome. It looks great. So if we can get that made, that’d be awesome.”
The original series starred Rosembaum as Lex Luthor, Welling as Clark Kent, Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang, Eric Johnson, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, Annette O’Toole, John Schneider, John Glover, Jensen Ackles, Erica Durance, Justin Hartley, and Callum Blue, among many others.
The only thing standing in their way right now is James Gunn and DC Studios signing off on it.
