‘Smallville’ stars Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum announced plans to bring the show back as an animated series a few years ago. Progress has been slow since then, with Warner Bros.’ interest in the project unclear, but Welling and Rosenbaum suggested that many of their co-stars were willing to return.
So, Screen Rant recently asked Erica Durance if she would be open to playing Lois Lane again in the animated sequel, to which she said, “I’d love to have explored where she would have gone further in her career.”
The actress explained, “Whether it was for her to be a mother, how she balanced all of that. I’d like to delve a little more into her past, her experiences with her dad, and how her upbringing shaped her a little bit more and just seeing her grow into another person, a grown-up version of herself.”
“But I’d love to keep her complicated and full of conflict and not always doing the right thing and not always saying the right thing. Because there’s more people like that out there, I think, in the world, than the ones that seem to be super slick.”
In the ‘Smallville’ finale, Lois helped Clark become Superman, and according to ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths,’ the two ended up getting married and having kids. The Arrowverse crossover event also suggested that Clark gave up on his powers for a calm life with his family, but Welling previously said this might not have been the same version of his character from the show.
So, there’s still room to explore more of Superman’s story in a sequel if Warner Bros. approves the project. “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,” Welling revealed at the latest Terrificon in Connecticut.
“We haven’t been able to share it yet, but Lionel Luthor is looming over everybody, and it’s really cool, but we just 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.”
Warner Bros. and DC Studios are currently focused on James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ reboot with David Corenswet. According to The CW president Brad Schwartz, they aren’t interested in releasing another Superman project right now to avoid competition. This means Welling and Rosenbaum’s animated show might take longer to arrive.
