Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum have been engaged on a Smallville animated sequence for years, however it appears to have hit one other roadblock.
Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaumt have been engaged on a possible animated follow-up to Smallville for quite a few years, however sequence co-creator Alfred Gough stated the mission is now “off the table” as a consequence of James Gunn’s new DC Universe.
“Warners has obviously gone through a lot, and I think the fact that they are in the process of rebooting Superman again, kind of unfortunately, I think, keeps our thing off the table for a bit,” Gough stated throughout Rosenbaum and Welling’s TalkVille podcast (due to CBM). “The whole lot comes round in a single type or one other, I simply learn the opposite day that they’re rebooting Buffy for Hulu.“
He continued, “That is the thing, I think the problem with most projects in development in any studio and/or any network is regime change.” As soon as the DCU has had just a little time to determine itself, it’s potential that the Smallville animated sequel sequence may very well be revisited. Nonetheless, Welling has beforehand admitted that the mission is “more of a fan-driven idea” that probably wouldn’t be a “financial windfall” for the studio.
“The honest answer is we have not been able to get Warner Bros. to give us the thumbs-up. We need their permission. We haven’t even gotten a response!” Welling (who performed Superman / Clark Kent on Smallville) stated final 12 months. “All of us like one another, all of us like working collectively, and if we might do it, it’d be enjoyable. However Warner Bros. — and I’m not hating on them — they simply haven’t gotten again to us. It’s not a precedence for them. It’s like a not-returning-phone-calls factor.“
Michael Rosenbaum (a.okay.a. Lex Luthor) shared his personal replace final 12 months, though he was just a little extra optimistic that it might occur. “All I could share is that it’s a great idea. We have Al [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,” Rosenbaum stated. “When the time’s proper, I believe it’s one thing that’s a no brainer, except they produce other concepts. We’d love to do it — the entire forged wish to do it. They’d voice their very own character from the present, and we’ve an idea of what the present is.“
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