News > Welling to Play Superman in JLA?

Written by David Morgan

IESB has been adamantly assuring its readers that Tom Welling of TV's Smallville will be playing the role of Superman in the new Justice League movie, citing multiple mysterious sources. However, Smallville producer Al Gough has told supermanhomepage.com that that casting "hasn't happened, won't happen, he (Welling) is under contract to Smallville through season 8." Whoops, right? 

Nope, IESB is sticking to their sources: I rechecked with my sources and they are all still saying yes, yes Tom Welling, yes Justice League, yes production starts early next year and yes Smallville will have to work around it. Believe me, the IESB will be the first to post a retraction on a story if we are proved wrong, but right now, this is what we are hearing. We have been sitting on the Tom Welling info for almost a week and finally felt we had gathered enough back-up to post it.

They must be trying for some sort of internet Woodward & Bernstein award. I, frankly, don't know what to believe. If Brandon Routh is out, then logically it makes sense for Welling to carry the Smallville fanbase over to the Justice League movie. But if his bosses are holding him to the show, that doesn't leave much time to be flying around with everybody else, though it's still not impossible.