‘Smallville’ Co-Creator Says Warner Bros. “Regime Change” Has Taken Animated Sequel Series “Off The Table For A Bit”

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Nearly 15 years after the Superman origin story ended, Smallville fans will have to wait a little longer for a potential animated continuation.

With David Corenswet making his Man of Steel debut in the new DCU‘s Superman, premiering July 11, Smallville co-creator Alfred Gough recently explained that James Gunn and Peter Safran‘s tenure as DC Studios co-CEOS has taken his project “off the table for a bit.” “That is the thing, I think the problem with most projects in development in any studio and/or any network is regime change,” he said on Smallville stars Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum‘s Talk Ville podcast. “Warners has obviously gone through a lot, and I think the fact that they are in the process of rebooting Superman again, kind of unfortunately, I think, keeps our thing off the table for a bit,” added Gough, who developed the series with Miles Millar. “Everything comes around in one form or another, I just read the other day that they are rebooting Buffy for Hulu.” The update comes a year after Rosenbaum teased that he and Welling were developing the animated followup with the show’s original cast and creators. “All I could share is that it’s a great idea.

We have Al and Miles, the creators of Smallville, backing us up,” he told Screen Rant. “When it’s the right time, we’d like to go and do this: pitch to Warner Bros.

It has to be the right time, and right now is not the right time.” Rosenbaum added, “We had the strike, we had a change of executives at DC — one being one of my best friends in the world, James Gunn.