As you know, Michael Rosenbaum AND Tom Welling they actively tried to get a Smallville Sequel series that would continue the story of the original show.
There are a lot of factors and things that need to fall into place for that to happen and for 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 this were to happen, many actors from the original series would return to reprise their roles. The star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer James Marsters he played one of Clark Kent’s greatest enemies as Brainiac and, in a recent interview with Screen Rant, confirmed that he would be open to reprising his role in the series.
Marsters said: “Definitely. I think Smallville was the smartest version of the Superman character I’ve ever seen.
“Superman is a very difficult character to write because he is invulnerable. Heroism is when I help someone, even when I have to sacrifice something to help them.”
“That’s the definition, and when you have a movie about heroes, you have the most exciting part [which] is when the hero has to risk his life to save someone or help someone.
“And that’s simply impossible with Superman. He is invulnerable. He’ll be fine unless he brings out the Kryptonite. Every Superman movie does this.”
Marsters continued: “There’s Kryptonite somewhere, and he has to risk death to do his thing. But with television series, you can’t bring out Kryptonite every week. It becomes redundant so quickly. It becomes cheesy. They have elided all this without focusing on Clark’s physical vulnerability, of which there is almost none.”
“It all came down to 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.” Here’s what to do.’
“And they managed to last ten years on that show without being redundant, without being repetitive. Afterwards, I would like to do more.”
I would like nothing more than for this project to come to fruition. Welling previously told fans: “We’ve been talking about this for a few years. We want to do one Smallville comics and animated series, and then we would all voice the characters. We already have an artist and we have a poster.”
He talked about the poster, saying, “We haven’t gotten around to sharing it yet, but Lionel Luthor is looming over everyone, and that’s really cool, but we can’t do anything without DC saying we can do it.” .
“They just didn’t give us the green light, but we’re ready, and Al [Gough] and miles [Millar]who wrote Smallville, they want to write it, but it’s not our property until they say we can.”
Welling later admitted that a Smallville revival would hardly be a moneymaker for Warner Bros. Discovery, but I think there’s a strong enough fan base that it could 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 it’s a financial thing – but like a petition. We can petition Warner Bros. to allow it.”
Rosenbaum previously teased the project, saying, “Tom and I are working on a Smallville animated series that we are trying to make. It will take some time.”
He continued: “But the creators of Smallville they are attached, they want to be part of it. And we’ll, you know, when the time is right, we’ll present it.
“You know, we’re working on it and we have some loose animations that we’ve been working on [on] with someone who was just amazing. It looks fantastic. So if we can make it happen, that would be amazing.”
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 HartleyAND Callum Blueamong many others.
The only thing standing in their way right now is James Gunn and DC Studios signed the agreement.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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