Spoiler - Friday, May 4, 2007 7:36
EW’s Heroes Story & Special Covers
This week EW published a great article on the next 3 episodes of Heroes. This issue of EW is available in 5 collector’s edition Heroes covers.
Here’s a sneak peek to Sylar vs. Hiro scene.
Zachary Quinto is rehearsing a scene in which Sylar confesses to his mother (Ellen Greene) that he has a nasty habit of murdering others of his freaky new ilk. (He spares her the part where he might be eating their brains, too.) Naturally, Mom is disappointed, so she grabs a knife and tries to gut him. The actors struggle â€â€? then they freeze. The physical universe has ground to a halt. It’s Hiro time. Slipping into the scene, Masi Oka withdraws his sword from its sheath and prepares to bring it down on Quinto’s head. Does the noble hero have the stones to decapitate a defenseless, time-paused soul, even one as nasty as Sylar? “I’m sorry,” says Oka. Then, breaking character: “Don’t worry. It’s not sharp.” Quinto, steely brown eyes unflinching, doesn’t laugh. His response: “Bring it.”
About, Volume 2 “Generations”
The May 21 season capper will set up two big ideas for the second volume of Heroes, to be titled ”Generations.” The new saga will focus on putting the Heroes mythology in a grand historical context of superpowered family dynasties. ”I know exactly where season 2 starts,” says Oka. ”It focuses on heritage, the family line, and the source of the powers.” That means the ”older” generation of heroes â€â€? including George Takei’s Papa Nakamura and especially Cristine Rose’s Mama Petrelli â€â€? should expect more screen time. ”I’d like to think she’s going to become queen of the world,” says Rose. ”But I don’t think that’s going to happen.”
Of course, the cash-cow potential of Heroes only makes the creative question more urgent: Can it last? The cast believe the key is to stick with the strategy that got them here: sheer audacity. ”We can’t just make cookie-cutter replicas of this season,” says Milo Ventimiglia, who, as Peter Petrelli, may or may not be the human nuke set to obliterate New York City. ”We have to grow. We have to change.” Kring agrees â€â€? and then some. He doesn’t believe in deferring wild, paradigm-shifting moves for the sake of a long-range master plan. He thinks great ideas beget great ideas, so why hold back? ”My guess is that we’ll find the edge of the cliff at some point â€â€? and fall off of it,” Kring says with a laugh. ”But right now, it’s the wild, wild West. It feels like anything is possible.”
You can read the whole post at EW.com..
17 Comments
Maybe Sylar is Lindermans son?
that is a really weird picture of Nathan…hardly looks like him
sylar doesn’t know linderman ROTZTTTTTTTTAFLKLLLLLLLL
Looks like Peter meets Claire’s Mom?
It looks like it could be one picture, with the peter/mohinder/matt one in the middle.
Here are all of the covers side by side:
http://tinyurl.com/26atsh
(warning, large image)
how can sylar be grabbing that sword?
i really hope hiro gets to sylar, but we already know he doesnt kill sylar unless all of quintos appearances in season 2 are flashbacks
milo looks hot *literally* in that cover shoot!
There is some subtle stuff going on in the Niki/DL cover, like a reflection of Jessica (or the other way around) and her holding a “Missing” flyer with Micah’s picture on it. Pretty sweet.
However, I don’t particularly like the grouping in most of them. Claire/HRG and Niki/DL make sense. But I think I would have like to have seen Peter with Hiro, Nathan with Linderman, and Sylar with Mohinder and Matt (that last one being a subtle homage to 5 Years Gone).
If you put those covers side-by-side, they merge in a single picture. The background was painted by Tim Sale, who is the same artist who used to paint Isaac’s art, and (now that Isaac is dead), will draw Peter’s paintings (since Peter absorbed Isaac’s power.
In the pastJeph Loeb (Heroes co-creator, writer of many episodes) and Tim Sale worked together on graphic novels (what used to be called “comic books”.)
The best -IMHO- sample of their collaboration is : “Batman: The Long Halloween” that has just been re-released in hard cover / absolute edition by DC Comics.
It’s a splendid story, with gorgeous art and I wholeheartly recommended it to every Heroes fan.
Those are some pretty awful shots of Nathan and Sylar…. in fact, anyone else think Nathan kinda looks like Sylar in that picture?
Like, unless mr Adrian Pasdar was on vacation so they stuck Sylars face on Nathans stunt double…?
Hiro and Sylar should have been on one cover.
And Linderman with Nathan on the other.
that=sense!
Yeah - Nathan does look like Sylar on the cover, which started me thinking…
At the end of “Five Years Gone,” Hiro has that comic-book image of him sticking the sword in someone he thought was Sylar. But what if the person Hiro stabs - the person depicted in the comic as wearing a suit and a five-o’clock shadow, is Nathan?
That would explain why Hiro and Nathan are together on the EW cover.
Link to comic of Hiro stabbing Nathan/Sylar:
http://www.heroesrevealed.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/12.jpg
It’s not nathan, the person depicted in the comic is wearing the same jacket as the painting that Isaac painted of Sylar killing him. Plus….those eyebrows are huge like Sylar’s not like Nathans.
Uhm… is it just me.. or… in that picture with Hiro stabbing Sylar doesn’t it look like Sylar has his brain-eating-bib on?
hmmm linderman sylar uhh….