It seems that every few months we hear news about the potential Smallville animated project that Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum have been discussing. On August 18, Tom Welling attended the Terrificon convention in Connecticut, and while there he was asked about any potential creative endeavors involving the show, and of course, Smallville came up.
“We’ve been talking about it for a few years,” Tom said, adding that Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance, Laura Vandervoort, and John Glover have been part of the discussions. “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. 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.”
“It would be more of a labor of love,” Tom admitted. “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,” Tom said.
So, no news yet… though the mention of a comic book is a component that we haven’t heard before. It is also curious to see if Gough and Millar could even contractually be involved due to their recently-signed deal with Sony Pictures. Stay tuned — perhaps we’ll get more news soon!
See Tom and other Smallville cast members in October at the first “Salute To Smallville” convention! Details can be found here.