Highlights of the interview:
TOM WELLING:
“I know that sometimes we’ve done some things fans didn’t like — though other fans really appreciate — but we’ve just going our own path knowing that eventually he would become Superman. Some people might be a little upset that it’s taken this long, but I think that we have to embrace the fact that if we’d done it in the first season, the show would be over. The whole point was to try to elongate this journey or this transition that Clark has to becoming Superman.”
“We all know that Clark doesn’t die. I just want the audience to get the feeling that I got watching [the 24 finale] … a feeling of hope, and faith that he’s going to continue, and that he’s out there somewhere.”
GEOFF JOHNS:
“It’s got its own continuity — just like Richard Donner’s Superman. It’s built its own world, and it’s certainly a huge legacy. It’s crazy … I mean Tom Welling has spent more hours as Clark Kent that anyone in history.”
BRIAN PETERSON:
“When he [Welling] finally becomes Superman, he will be, to me, stepping into the role and becoming Christopher Reeve. We really want it to end where a lot of people in the world … where their knowledge of Superman picks up. Our goal was not to create mythology but to fill in a gap of mythology.”