Alan Ritchson"s Smallville Aquaman Snub Looks So Much Worse In 2024

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Summary

Alan Ritchson's early recasting as Aquaman in Smallville spinoff was disappointing, but his career has since flourished.
After his Smallville stint, Ritchson landed roles in Reacher, Titans, and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, finding success.
With potential for Alan Ritchson to be recast as Batman in the DC Extended Universe, his age and skill make him a fitting choice.

After playing Aquaman in the long-running TV series Smallville, Alan Ritchson was recast for the Aquaman spinoff series, a decision that looks even worse in 2024. Despite being a classic DC Comics superhero and an essential member of numerous Justice League lineups, Aquaman received his first live-action incarnation in 2005, via a 2005 episode of Smallville, with Alan Ritchson playing the role. Ritchson’s version of Aquaman became a reoccurring character in Smallville and a spinoff TV series was planned, yet ultimately only yielded a pilot episode.
The Aquaman pilot, interestingly, did not star Alan Ritchson but instead cast Justin Hartley as the King of the Sea. The pilot was well-received, yet it did not, unfortunately, lead to a full Aquaman TV series. Hartley would play Green Arrow in Smallville that same year (and become a beloved reoccurring character in the series) and the Aquaman characters and mythos would not return to the realm of live-action until the DC Extended Universe film franchise finally brought the hero to cinemas, with Jason Momoa playing Arthur Curry in multiple films, including two Aquaman solo movies.
The Aquaman pilot’s co-creator, Alred Gough, toyed with the idea of setting the show in the same continuity as Smallville, but due to several notable discrepancies between the two, the Aquaman pilot appears to take place in its own universe.

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