Will Tom Welling be featured?


I was looking at the long list of people in this and I noticed Tom Welling is not in this. Anyone know why? Wouldn't you think he'd be actually a big person to interview about it?

I mean Stan Lee's in it and he created DC's biggest enemy... Marvel.

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We very much wanted him to be a part of the documentary, but we were unable to coordinate production schedules with him. We did, however, interview Annette O'Toole and the creators of Smallville.

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We? Were you involved in the maker of this documentary?

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Yes, I was one of the editors.

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Oh that's really cool! Is your name on Imdb?

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Yes. If you click on "Look, Up in the Sky..." and scroll down to "more" on Credited Cast, you'll see me listed alphabetically with the other editors. Thanks for asking & thanks for watching.

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just wanted to let you know then that this is one of the best documentaries i have ever seen. its so absolutely amazing for so many reasons. my appreciation for superman went waaaaaay up after watching it. i loved every minute of it, i really did.

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Since you were an editor on the project, can I ask why the segment on 'Lois and Clark' was cut so short...and the bit on 'Smallville' was longer than any other segment? Just curious...since, as a fan of LAC and not of SV, that was my only dissapointment with the DVD. It'd also make more sense, sinc you had Dean Cain, but not Tom Welling. Enjoyed it very much otherwise!




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I'll try to answer as best I can. Please keep in mind, that this is only my opinion and it does not reflect the opinion of my Director, my Producers, or anyone else.

There is a great deal involved in "clearing" a show to be used as material for a documentary; that means that we have the legal right to show someone's voice, image or likeness. Each show has many layers of individual things that have to be cleared. It can be an artist's work in a comic book, a composer's underscore in a scene, a product placement in a film, an extra, a main actor, any number of factors. These may need to be cleared under "show footage", "behind the sceens footage", still photos, personal photos, publicity photos, or all of the above. For example, you will notice that while we cleared "Smallville", we did not use the theme song. Another example is sometimes characters were seen on screen, but you never heard them speak dialogue. Other times, you will not see characters at all. It's a very complicated balancing act between trying to be a good editor and tell your story, and not blowing your production company's entire budget.

Simply put, we could not afford to use every single piece of media (whether song or movie or television show episode or even comic book pages and story lines) that we wanted to for the documentary, so choices were made on what best served the story we were trying to tell. One of the advantages of "Smallville" is that it let us really showcase the Lex Luthor character. Another use of the show was that it was an elegant and classy way to tell of Christopher Reeve's death. The timing of the show's debut allowed us to touch on 9/11 and the relevance Superman still held in the world.

For those (on other posts) that have commented that a disproportionate amount of time is spent on "Smallville" and "Superman Returns", by my (very rough) estimate, we spent nearly 12 minutes on "The Adventures of Superman", and 25 minutes on the Christopher Reeve films, but just 8 minutes on "Smallville" and 7 on "Superman Returns". Please keep in mind, that these are rough estimates, and I only gathered timings from the sections of the documentary that talked about the individual shows, not necessarily when Superman was being spoken of in general terms, or when we used footage to illustrate other topics (i.e. Christopher Reeve's death)

I am very gratified that the documentary has been so well received and I do, trully wish we could have made every fan completely happy. Hovever, there is a saying that goes something "You can't please all the people, all the time". We have done our best, I am extremely proud of our work, and I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked on this documentary and with all the people involved.

Thank you so very much for your interest and for watching; I hope this is an acceptible answer to your question.

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While I understand completely what your talking about and kind of figured at least some of what you said was whY. I wanted to know if that was why Teri Hatcher wasn't involved as an interview or was she unavailable because of her Desperate Housewives show.

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