SMALLVILLE Star Erica Durance Talks About Animated Revival and What She Wants to See From Lois Lane
Smallville stars Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum are very excited about the animated revival of the series that they’ve been actively trying to get off the ground, and they are determined to make it happen.
There’s still a long road ahead of them and some hurdles they need to jump over, but this is something that very well could happen one day. Warner Bros. and DC Studios just have to get excited about it as well.
Lois Lane actress Erica Durance recently opened up about what she would like to see from Lois from the series if it happens.
While talking to Screen Rant, she said: "I'd love to have explored where she would have gone further in her career. 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."
Smallville ended with Lois helping with Clark's transformation into Superman and we know from Crisis on Infinite Earths that they eventually married and had two daughters.
Welling previously talked about the project saying: We've been talking about it for a few years. 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."
He talked about the poster art, saying: "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."
He added: "It would be more of a labor of love. 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."
Rosenbaum previously teased the project saying: "Tom and I are working on a Smallville animated series that we're trying to get made. It's gonna take time.”
He continued: "But the creators of Smallville are attached, they want to be a part of it. And we, you know, when it's the right time, we'll pitch it.
“You know, we're working on it and we have some loose animation that we've worked [on] with someone who was just awesome. It looks great. So if we can get that made, that'd be awesome."
Rosenbaum has “a concept of what the show is” and previously said the whole cast of Smallville “would voice their own character from the show.”
The original series starred Rosembaum as Lex Luthor, Welling as Clark Kent, Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, Annette O’Toole, John Schneider, John Glover, Jensen Ackles, Erica Durance, Justin Hartley, and Callum Blue, among many others.
A Smallville animated series seems like a no-brainer decision to greenlight, but a lot of studio executives tend to have a lack of brains and common sense.