Michael Rosenbaum offered an update — or really, a non-update — about the Smallville animated project when asked about it this past weekend at the 2024 Nashville ComiCon.
“Tom [Welling] and I are working on a Smallville animated series that we’re trying to get made,” Rosenbaum confirmed to moderator Chris Killian. “It’s gonna take time. But the creators of Smallville are attached… they want to be a part of it. When it’s the right time, we’ll pitch it. We’ve 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 would be awesome.”
While Michael Rosenbaum didn’t go into detail about why it will take time, a safe assumption is that there are a number of factors in play — building James Gunn’s new DCU being a big one, but also, if the Smallville producers Al Gough & Miles Millar are to be involved, they recently signed a deal with Sony and therefore might not be able to work on such a project.
Speaking of Gunn’s Superman movie, due out on Michael Rosenbaum’s birthday (July 11) in 2025, Michael did talk about his involvement (or non-involvement) with that, and whether or not he’d take a different role in the new DCU.
“I’m always up for a challenge,” Michael said. “I’m always up for fun. Whatever comes to me, I look at it, and if it’s not too silly, or if it makes me laugh, or I think I could do a really good job or I think I can make an impression, I’ll do it. So I’m at that point in my career where I just want to do things that I love, that I want to do. I asked him, ‘Why am I not in Superman? Why am I not in the movie somehow?’ It was fine, though. I wish him all the happiness. He deserves all the success he has. He’s enormously talented. When it’s the right thing, he’ll ask me. Or he won’t. And that’s aside from friendship. When your friends go off and do big things, you say, ‘Hey, they know I’m here. They know my number.’ And you just hope for the best.”