Tom Welling Reveals Alternative Superman Costume Suit Up Reveal For Smallville Finale

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This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.Tom Welling shares how the Smallville series finale almost went in a different way regarding how the Superman suit was revealed in the DC TV show.
At this year"s Comic Con Stockholm, Screen Rant was in attendance for Welling"s Sunday panel, where he looked back on Smallville"s legacy, including the series finale. When asked about the famous scene in the Smallville series finale where Clark finally does the iconic shirt rip and is suiting up as Superman, Welling revealed that there was initially a very different approach to how the costume was going to get used, as he shared the following:

[In] one of the final [scenes,] Clark opens his shirt and finally leaps off the building. That was written [in] a completely different way. They had written where Clark sees the suit, then cut to him, pulling it on and putting the boots on. Do you guys remember Kiefer Sutherland"s 24? That show just ended, and one of the things they did in that show, it"s a satellite image from space, and he"s talking to [the] satellite imaging, knowing that Chloe, who he works with, is watching, and he"s saying goodbye. He"s saying, "I can"t stay, but I gotta go" and I remember the takeaway from that to me was here"s a guy who"s gonna go out there, is gonna fight the good fight. We can"t go with him, but it allows our imagination to believe he"s still out there.
I took that and when we were trying to figure it out in the series, I referenced that the idea that this character is gonna go out there, he"s gonna be out there. We can"t go with it. And that"s how that all came about. There was a bit of a discussion and limitation on what shots we were going to use, it was me, and Greg Beeman, who directed the episode. But the idea was I was going to force them on a crane shot to come into gear. After that, the show was over, and because it was a crane shot, and no, I wouldn"t allow them to shoot any other angles of it, because that"s what I wanted that and then to go on. So the wardrobe department went, "So we"re only going to see this? Okay." So they made me a crop top with no sleeves. They didn"t want to pay for the whole suit, and I didn"t mind, I didn"t want to wear a suit! [laughs] So when I go like this [mimics the shirt rip going further,] if I"ve gone any further, you"d have see my belly button.

Source: Tom Welling/Comic Con Stockholm
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