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Tom Welling Hoped For Bruce Wayne on Smallville

Tom Welling lists Bruce Wayne as one of two things he would have liked to have seen in Smallville.

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We’ve recently been through an era where there could concurrently be a Superman in multiple mediums at the same time; a world where there can be four different incarnations of Bruce Wayne at a time. Aside from Superman Returns coming out while Smallville was still on the air, that didn’t happen as much back in that time, which provided some limitations on what could or could not be done. Heck, before Smallville was in development for The WB, there was a Bruce Wayne TV series project in the works!

Speaking in a panel at the recent TerrifiCon convention, Tom Welling talked a bit about two things he would have liked to have seen on Smallville — and one of those things is Bruce Wayne.

“I always thought that we should have had Bruce Wayne pass through somehow,” Tom said during his panel Q&A. “That would have been really cool to see. Like, you know how Clark  always got into the Luthor Mansion with no problem? [What if] he had gone into Lex’s office, and it was just as simple as Lex being like ‘good to meet you, Bruce,’ or ‘I’ll talk to you later, Bruce,’ and have him just walk out,” he added, making the someday-Superman and Batman just pass each other.

“I think that would have been cool, but one of the challenges we had is DC movies and DC television don’t talk to each other,” he continued, adding that even using the John Williams Superman score could be a challenge.

How close did Smallville actually get to landing Bruce Wayne? See what show creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar had to say!

There’s another iconic moment in Superman lore that Tom would have liked to have done: “I think one of the most iconic scenes that I remember from Superman II [was] when he loses his powers and he’s in the diner, and he gets beat up, and then he goes back and got the guy. Hindsight is 20/20, but we could have ripped that scene off pretty easily, and that would have been fun,” he said.

In a twist of irony, Superman & Lois did a variation of that scene on their show, which stars Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent… but what ties it back to Smallville is that the person he confronted in the diner was played by Adrian McMorran — “Jeremy Creek” himself from the very first episode of Smallville! As Jeph Loeb famously would say, “It’s all connected!”

See Tom and more Smallville stars at Creation’s “Salute to Smallville” in October!

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Smallville Animated Update: It May Be A While…

On TalkVille, the reality of the current status of the Smallville animated project was discussed.

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March 19, 2025

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On a recent episode of Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling’s TalkVille podcast, they had the show’s creator Al Gough as a call-in guest, and among the topics discussed was the Smallville animated project that they’ve been trying to get off the ground. Unfortunately, Gough brought up the reality that especially with regime changes at the studio, it may be a while.

“Regime change” refers to changes in leadership at the studio or network. As an example, the regime changed massively when Smallville moved from The WB (who had executives that loved them) to The CW (where Dawn Ostroff was more interested in “pretty rich white girls with problems” shows and kept trying to kill Smallville).

“The problem with most projects in development in any studio and any network is regime change, and Warners has obviously gone through a lot, and I think the fact that they’re in the process of rebooting Superman again, unfortunately, I think, keeps our thing off the table for a bit,” Gough said in discussion with the actors. He pointed out that everything comes around in one form or another, pointing to Hulu’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival as such a thing.

So, don’t give up hope… but for now, it seems it’s not happening anytime soon, if at all.

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John Schneider Added To Salute to Smallville 2025 in Chicago!

John Schneider has been added to the 2025 Salute to Smallville convention in Chicago from Creation Entertainment.

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February 13, 2025

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John Schneider is the latest actor to be added to the guest list for Creation Entertainment’s second “Salute To Smallville” convention, happening September 13-14 in Chicago. Schneider portrayed Clark’s human father Jonathan Kent from Seasons 1-5 and returned for several episodes in the show’s final season.

Schneider will be joining Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance, John Glover, Aaron Ashmore, Adrianne Palicki, and Alaina Huffman at this year’s event! Last year’s convention was a fantastic experience and it’s well worth checking out! You can read more about Salute to Smallville and purchase tickets here.

DISCLAIMER: KryptonSite’s Craig Byrne has created web graphics and websites for Creation Entertainment in addition to hosting their 2024 Salute to Smallville event.

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Annette O’Toole’s Big Smallville Regret

Annette O’Toole discusses her biggest regret from her time on Smallville.

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Smallville’s Annette O’Toole recently spoke with Salon magazine about her biggest regret from her time on the show. It’s a topic she has discussed on the TalkVille podcast, and it is something she talked about in KryptonSite’s interview to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series premiere.

Basically, it was the notion that she never was able to share scenes with Christopher Reeve. While the plan originally was for a scene between them in the Season 4 premiere “Crusade,” in the two appearances that Reeve did make on Smallville failed to reunite O’Toole with Reeve, which is a shame, as Annette played Lana Lang to Christopher Reeve’s Clark Kent in the film Superman III.

“I never understood it,” she said. “I should have picked up the phone and called the producers and said what are you thinking? You’ve got the prior Lana Lang and Superman. Why aren’t you putting them in a scene together? It kind of broke my heart. It was kind of like ‘if they don’t see, I’m not gonna tell ’em! They don’t understand!’ So who’s regretting it? Not them. I knew it would be the last time I’d ever get to see Chris, so, yeah, I’m very sad about that.”

You can watch the clip below.

 

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