Just because he did good in the 1 hour drama role doesn’t mean he be good as superman. He played the young clark kent fine now Superman and Reporter clark kent that’s a whole new ball game to pull off.

And it’s a reboot i would rather have it start fresh and new. I know people are tired of reboots. But this REBOOT is need for SUPERMAN. After the big let down of the Superman Returns.

I really hope they do a good job. MAKE HIM FIGHT DARKSEID MONGUL! PRIME! lol, but it’s reboot . . . he probably won’t fight those guys. haha.

also i heard rumors they might use birthright plot line OMG YES! One of my favorites, i wouldn’t be surprised if they tried Earth-one either haha but i doubt it with the cast they have together

Its NOT a mistake. Tom Welling is Smallville’s Superman. They are not making a movie about Smallville.

I would only agree with your sentiments if they were making a Smallville movie… which they are NOT.

If they made Welling Superman in this film, people would be watching it thinking “Where is Queen? The Justice Society? Why is Erica Durrance not playing Lois?” None of those things are present either.

This is not Smallville. Welling is not this Superman.

being a 35 year old superman fanatic, I must say that after watching Smallville for the last 10 years, any Superman movie without Tom as the actor will be a let down. After the season finale of Smallville it is evident that he is the best candidate for superman and for those in charge of the Superman brand who do not see that will be making a grave mistake, as was evident in the last superman movie. Mark my words, the real superman fans have spoken!

Read the response to Daniel John.

Welling is NOT the only choice. Clearly.

If this was a Smallville movie THEN I might agree. But this is not Smallville just like Smallville is not Superman. It is a variation of the Superman origins, and this is a different variation again

But Welling is the LAST person they would consider for this role. Cavill is a great actor.

Tom Welling should be the next Superman, this new man from the tudors is a Big mistake and will end up being the same as Rouths Superman, I am a massive Superman fan have watched all the movies and 10 years worth of Smallville, TOM is the man of steel 100%. Making him Clark Kent is the only way to go, imagine they have now cancelled the amazing Smallville another HUGE Error in judgement. Smallville is the begginning of Supermans life Tom should have been cast in the movie, to prove this he should be offered the role of superman in the justice league or the next Superman movie after this new one flops and it will you just watch and you will see that Tom Welling should have been cast in the first place as HE IS THE ONLY CHOICE.

Because Tom Welling is THAT world’s version of Superman called THE BLUR.

Welling ISNT Superman, and this is not a Smallville movie.

The decade of Smallville proves that he would be the perfect choice to play Clark Kent in Smallville: The Movie. This in no way qualifies him to play the same character in a completely different and completely unrelated franchise based off of the same source material.

Millions of Smallville fans don’t agree with you, while there are some who are under the same illusion that he should somehow be considered. I am a massive Smallville fan since the first episode, but even I can see that this would be a mistake to make Welling Superman in a non-smallville production.

Tom Welling is Smallville, this movie is NOT Smallville. It is not a mistake to over look him for the role. He was never considered. The same way they declined to offer the job to Brandon Routh. Fans thought he “deserved” it after playing such a good Superman in a poorly recieved Superman Returns, but they couldn’t use him because this is not related at all to that franchise. Few complained about Routh’s performance when complaining about that film.

But he was THAT Superman, and this is a new franchise unrelated to THAT Superman.

Go to any SuperHero Forum and you will see threads started up as long as 8 years ago talking about Cavill would be the perfect Superman. Actually, he was the lead to play Sups in “Superman Returns” until Bryan Singer took over and totally changed up the cast and put Routh in as the lead roll. Singer thought Cavill looked to young at the time for the Superman Singer had in mind.

After Superman Returns, the hype train just sky-rocketed among fans to cast Cavill as the lead Roll for the next Superman Movie. There is actually a thread with over 100 pages just dedicated to Henry Cavill to play the next Superman, and this thread is over 3 years old!!!

Cavill is gonna be amazing, no one here got to see his audition, and with Nolan behind this one, we can be sure we will get something special here.

After hearing Cavill finally got the lead, I think I almost pee’d my pants in excitement! No JOKE!!!

Persoanlly, I feel Routh lacked the carisma and emotion that someone such as Christopher Reeves had. Yes, Superman Returns had a bad script, but even through-out the love scenes with Lous, Routh lacked this. This Carisma and emotional aspect of Sups is something Cavill has, watch some of this mans movie’s, he is amazing and his characters shine and get you emotionally attached to them.

There have been Pics modified showing what Cavill would look like in the Sups roll, and they cannot have picked a better looking Sups aswell.

No worries guys, just as long as we have a good script this time (I feel it will be, to much money to be lost here, I feel they learned from the last Movie) this is gonna be great people! :)

Um, there’s more to it than looks. Cavill and Tom Welling are completely different when it comes to acting.

If they used Tom Welling, it would have to be a Smallville-universe movie. It couldn’t be its own thing. I’m not sure there’d be the audience for a Smallville movie, at least one that wasn’t made for TV or direct to DVD (indeed, they already did one of those :p).

Did a lot of people hear about Christopher Reeves, before he was cast? Or Mark Hamill before he was Luke Skywalker? Or Sam Worthington before he was in Avatar? Chris Pine before he was Captain Kirk? A lot of directors filming big budget/heroic type movies prefer unknowns for the role, and for good reason.

That was my feeling, too.