SUPERNATURAL Once Came Really Close To Crossing Over With SMALLVILLE
According to a former Supernatural PA, their writing team once pitched a very unique crossover that would've seen Sam & Dean Winchester cross paths with Smallville's Clark Kent! Come check it out!
With the recent surge of DC TV shows on the CW, the annual crossover events, which typically see heroes & villains from the entire universe join forces to stop a greater evil, have been a hugely successful endeavor for the network. Just last week, this year's four-parter delivered season-best ratings for their entire lineup, which includes Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow.
However, according to a new report, it sounds like there may have been a very special crossover in the works long before anyone thought four superhero shows could ever exist on just one network - but, it wouldn't have been multiple superheroes meeting up, instead it would've seen two of The CW's biggest hits ever - Smallville & Supernatural - come together in an episode for the ages.
During EW Radio's weekly Entertainment Weirdly show, former Supernatural production assistant Jackson Stewart (Beyond the Gates) called in and shared a few brief details on the one highly ambitious episode that their writing team could never quite crack: “There was a lot of really cool ideas that some of the writers had. They had an episode where they really wanted to do a Superman curse that was about every actor who plays Superman ends up getting killed. So they find out that Tom Welling from Smallville is next and have to save him. I thought that was one of the funniest ideas that I’d heard.”
Talk about high-concept, but then again, Supernatural has never been a show to shy away from the meta- or even super-meta, having once done an episode where Sam & Dean are transported into our world, where they learn that their real world counterparts are just well-paid actors on a television show that not a lot of people seem to watch.
Smallville ended its storied ten-season run back in 2011, but Supernatural is still going strong today in its twelvth season, so if they really wanted to, they could theoretically pull off this crossover with a little reworking if Tom Welling was interested in returning to The CW for a guest spot. Welling also does have past ties to Jensen Ackles, having worked with him during the fourth season of Smallville, when Ackles was a series regular. Plus, Dean Cain & Brandon Routh are both working on CW shows at the moment, so they could get really creative with the Superman concept if they chose to.
So, what do you guys think? How badly would you have liked to see Clark Kent cross paths with the Winchester brothers? Sound off with your thoughts below!
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