Tom Welling & Michael Rosenbaum's Smallville Sequel Series Addressed By Creators

EXCLUSIVE: Smallville may have finished in 2011, but the story could potentially continue for more adventures.

For a decade, Clark Kent’s ultimate origin story was explored through ten seasons of Smallville, focusing on how he learned about his Kryptonian heritage before becoming Superman, while viewers also got to see a unique, refreshing take on the DC canon and the many characters in his life. But in the current age of TV revivals and reboots, many have been wondering if the DC drama could get a second life.

2026 marked a big milestone for Smallville, with the show celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, as the pilot premiered on October 16, 2001. In an exclusive interview with ScreenRant’s Andy Behbakht, showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar were asked about the animated sequel series that Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum have been developing over the last few years, with the Wednesday creators intended to be part of the revival if it goes forward.

The writing partners have been reliving the show through guest hosting on Rosenbaum and Welling’s TalkVille Podcast, while sharing their perspectives, including how they would have done things differently today. When posed with the question about what they would do differently if the Smallville sequel were to go forward, especially as they have tackled different projects over the years, Gough and Millar shared the following about what a revival would potentially look like:

Al Gough: I’m not sure, actually. I mean, to be honest, we haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about it just because we’ve been a little busy in another world [Netflix’s Wednesday] and Warner Brothers has been going through, as you pointed out, its many machinations. So yeah, we haven’t really devoted much of our brain space to it.

Miles Millar: But that said, I think we’d be very, very interested in doing it. I think it’s a very intriguing idea. And I think given it wouldn’t be the episode-by-episode, not [a] freak of the week, but it would be much more of a streaming, basically a long movie, which sounds very intriguing in terms of what we’ve been doing on Wednesday to take that approach to Smallville and see what these characters are 20 years later. I think it’s very compelling, and the actors are still so great, and the fan base is there. I think it would be obviously challenging, but really exciting. I think there’s definitely an audience for it. It’s getting the appetite at Warner Brothers. So that’s, I think, always the challenge, but I think we’re definitely up for it, and I think it would be great.

Al Gough: I’m not sure, actually. I mean, to be honest, we haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about it just because we’ve been a little busy in another world [Netflix’s Wednesday] and Warner Brothers has been going through, as you pointed out, its many machinations. So yeah, we haven’t really devoted much of our brain space to it.

Miles Millar: But that said, I think we’d be very, very interested in doing it. I think it’s a very intriguing idea. And I think given it wouldn’t be the episode-by-episode, not [a] freak of the week, but it would be much more of a streaming, basically a long movie, which sounds very intriguing in terms of what we’ve been doing on Wednesday to take that approach to Smallville and see what these characters are 20 years later. I think it’s very compelling, and the actors are still so great, and the fan base is there. I think it would be obviously challenging, but really exciting. I think there’s definitely an audience for it. It’s getting the appetite at Warner Brothers. So that’s, I think, always the challenge, but I think we’re definitely up for it, and I think it would be great.

When ScreenRant spoke with Welling about his Superman journey for the 25th anniversary, the DC star said that it would be up to the powers that be if the continuation gets greenlit, as Warner Bros. Discovery is going through its merger with Paramount. He stated that “it was an uphill battle before the whole merger thing, and I don’t pretend to understand any of that. But I think this is a labor of love for the fans.”

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According to Welling, several original Smallville cast members have agreed to reprise their roles, as he continued, “The idea would be that it would be animated, but all the original cast members would voice their characters, and every cast member we’ve talked to has been like, ‘That would be awesome. Let’s do it.’ We have some early renderings from an artist, we have a poster for it already that, obviously, we can’t share, but the actual answer is Warner Bros. has to give us the green light. They have to let us use their IP, and that just hasn’t happened yet. But we’re still fighting. Yeah, we’re optimistic about it.”

Rosenbaum was also hopeful about a revival having a place at DC Studios when speaking to ScreenRant for the show’s anniversary celebration about his Lex Luthor legacy. When he was asked if he had spoken about it with co-CEO James Gunn, who is also a good friend of the actor, he stated that they haven’t yet, but that “it’s just one of those things where, when it’s the right time, I’ll definitely pitch it. Tom’s there with me; the whole cast wants to do it. Al and Miles want to do it, so I just feel like when the time’s right – it could be five years from now – it will happen. I think it’s just such a solid idea, and there’s such a built-in audience, and I’ve got these great drawings and illustrations of what it would look like.”

Smallville is streaming on Hulu via Disney+ in the United States and is also available through home media release.

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