Heroes Revealed!

Amazon.co.uk put a Heroes Season 2 DVD page online. If everything goes well, Heroes Season 2 DVD set will be out on July 28th 2008. We will also see a Blu-Ray version of it.

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The connection between Heroes and Star Trek is strong, and getting stronger: first George Takei (TOS: Sulu), then Dominic Keating (ENT: Malcolm Reed). Then Zachary Quinto cast as Spock… and earlier this week Heroes creator Tim Kring told he was looking “for another face that will have a very similar impact” to Takei when appearing on the show.
The ‘face’ Kring was talking about is Nichelle Nichols, (ST: Uhura), and she’ll appear on six episodes of Heroes Season Two.

Here’s some extra info about her character and how she relates to other ‘Heroes’

Showing up in the season’s fourth episode, she’ll play Nana, a New Orleans doyenne whose daughter died during Hurricane Katrina. The character, who is in dire financial straits, has moved back into her once-flooded home, where she cares for her two grandchildren. One of them, new hero Monica (Dana Davis), is an avenging angel intent on bringing justice to the corruption-plagued Big Easy. Nana is also a great-aunt to Micah, the junior hero played by series regular Noah Gray-Cabey.

Now, about the ‘interesting rumor’ we heard here at Heroesrevealed.com:
Niki Sanders (Ali Larter) will send her son Micah (Noah Gray-Cabey) to live
in New Orleans, at his great-aunt’s (Nana) home.

As ‘Heroes’ moves towards its exciting second season premiere, starting August 13 on NBC (during the ‘Heroes’ timeslot: Mondays at 9 / 8 C), Heroes’ cast members will host the re-run of their favorite episode of ‘Heroes’ Season One .

Here’s the schedule of ‘Heroes Cast Favorites’ :

Monday, August 13 Ali Larter (’Niki/Jessica Sanders’) and Adrian Pasdar’s (’Nathan Petrelli’) host “Collision”

Monday, August 20 Hayden Panettiere (”Claire Bennet”) and Milo Ventimiglia (”Peter Petrelli”) host “Homecoming.”

Monday, August 27 Masi Oka (”Hiro Nakamura”) and James Kyson Lee (”Ando Masahashi”) host “Six Months Ago.”

Monday, September 3 Jack Coleman (”H.R.G.”) and Greg Grunberg (”Matt Parkman”) host “Company Man.”

Monday, September 10 Sendhil Ramamurthy (”Dr. Mohinder Suresh”) and Zachary Quinto (”Sylar”) host “Parasite.”

NBC’s HEROES CAST FAVORITES promo (with some footage from Season Two ! )

San Diego Comic-Con, Saturday July 2007
at the Heroes Panel was shown a season two spoiler preview,
and a fan in the attendance was able to film -somehow- the video.

Very poor image and sound quality , still better than nothing.

Read our SDCC 2007 Heroes Panel Report for further information on this preview.

Enjoy.

Superherohype just published an exclusive interview with NBC Heroes creator Tim Kring.
Here follows a short excerpt, the full interview is available at Superherohype

SHH!: Most of them have been lucky in that they haven’t been seen in public using their powers, so will we be seeing anything like the “secret identity” stuff that’s so common in comic book superheroes?
Kring: Well, yeah, for the most part, most of them have remained fairly anonymous, allowing them to live anonymous lives, which I think is really important for the show, so we don’t get into a situation where we’re looking at Superman and Batman being public figures, although a little bit of that is going to creep in.

SHH!: After asking about the flashbacks, I realized that you have this character who can travel through time to different periods making them unnecessary. I was curious what sort of problems that’s posed. I’m sure Jeph (Loeb, the show’s co-executive producer) has mentioned all the problems that time travel has caused within the different comic book universes.
Kring: Oh, yeah. It’s a very, very sticky world when you start to do the time travel, so we’re using it extremely judicially. Obviously, it’s no secret that Hiro has landed in feudal Japan, so he has adventures to fulfill there, but we are definitely going to use it a few other times at least. It’s a lot of fun.

SHH!: I’m looking forward to that since I’m a huge Kurosawa fan. Is he going to spend a lot of time in Japan or is that just a temporary stopover?
Kring: I’ll go as much as to say that it’s a handful of episodes.

SHH!: Besides Hayden and Ali, a lot of the people you’ve cast were new faces who’ve come to prominence from the show. Have you had any problems with some of them wanting to take other offers that come there way like movies, etc and have you had to rewrite things to accommodate that?
Kring: Well, listen, all of them are very committed to the show and get the idea that this was a huge thing for them, so that hasn’t really begun yet, but with the size of the cast and the logistics of our shooting, it does actually afford people the ability to go off and do little projects along the way. Those are always challenging, but it’s also good for the show sometimes.

SHH!: You obviously have a gameplan worked out for the second season, so I wondered if you still have that flexibility if something comes up.
Kring: Yeah, there’s always flexibility, and we have to do it constantly on a daily basis. Things come up and we’re retooling all of the time. Literally, just yesterday we learned that our first pod of episodes is going to be eleven in a row, instead of ten in a row, so that threw a giant monkey wrench in our plans, because we had ended Volume II at Episode 10 and now we had to end it at Episode 11. Sometimes, stretching is very hard to do. When you can name that tune in 4 beats, it’s hard to name it in 6.

SHH!: What about bringing on new and known directors? Shows like “Lost” and even “Oz” as they went along got interest from better-known directors who wanted to direct episodes.
Kring: Oh, yeah. There are sort of two competing goals in terms of directors. You want to have as small a stable as you can, because you don’t want to have to keep teaching old tricks to new directors. But the flip side of that is that a show like this that gains a certain amount of popularity also starts to attract very interesting directors who wouldn’t normally do a first year show and may not even do television. Sometimes you want to be able to breathe some new life into the directing of the show by bringing in people with fresh ideas, so you keep enough slots open every year out of the 24 to kind of audition new people. But the goal again, like I said, from a production sensibility is to try and have as small a stable as you can of directors so the actors are used to certain people. It’s always dicey when you bring in a brand-new face because they may or may not be able to get the vibe of a place or they may not connect with the actors the way that you want them to, so when you get somebody who does, that works, you try and lock ‘em up.

SHH!: Will this new mini-series give you an opportunity to bring in new directors or ones that we might know from other shows/mediums?
Kring: That’s the whole idea. The whole idea is that it will not tax the production of “Heroes” at all. We’re going to have separate production, separate writers, separate directors, separate stage space. Everything will be separate except for a couple of us at the top who are going to sort of supervise things. The wonderful thing about it is the ability to attract some interesting writers and directors who are not normally interested in doing series television, but would come in and do one episode of a kind of Rod Serlingesque television show that has the stamp of a fairly big show like “Heroes.” We’re currently in negotiations on a couple of names that I’m going to announce in the next couple weeks that I think are going to be really exciting.

SHH!: Maybe there’ll be an announcement at San Diego Comic-Con?
Kring: That’s the idea we’re going to try right now.

Click to read the full interview at Superherohype

07/20/2007
This week at NBC’s TCA (Television Critics Association) Press Tour party, tv.ign.com’s staff members were able to speak to Jack Coleman and Hayden Panettiere about their characters, Noah and Claire Bennet, and what’s to come in Season 2.

Here’s the highlights:

About shooting Season 2 so far, and the Bennets’ storyline:

Panettiere: “Wonderful. It’s been really, really, really fun. It’s been great.”

Coleman: “The Bennet family has relocated; I can’t tell you exactly where. It’s a new world. The secrets they keep from each other are new secrets. The old secrets have all been divulged. We’re not repeating old ground, but there’s old ghosts and old habits that are about to rear their ugly head in a very dramatic way.” [The entire family was together again at the start of the season] “in a very difficult, awkward circumstance, that they all have to try to deal with and it gets pretty sticky pretty quickly.”

As for the bigger picture of the Heroes world:

Panettiere: “We find everyone four months from where we left of. We’re not sure who’s alive and who’s dead, and yadda yadda. There’s a lot of things that have happened in those four months, so we’re going to find out about that. But Claire’s trying to be a normal girl again. She’s fighting to find that inner teenager in her.” [Claire will discover that] “the irony of it is no matter where you go, everything is kind of always the same. Everyone kind of looks the same.”

Cheerleader outfit during Season 2:

Panettiere: “Possibly. Possibly! I wouldn’t say goodbye to the cheerleading outfits just yet. She is ‘The Cheerleader.” [...] “except maybe this season, she might actually do some cheering! I’ve told the producers ‘We need to talk about this cheering thing!’”

About the success Heroes achieved in the past year:

Coleman: “Taking the whole entirety of the last twelve months, it is pretty staggering. It’s funny because it happens in increments so you don’t see the snowball building the way it has been. But nobody knew the show was going to be what it is. I think everybody suspected it had a chance to be successful, but not on its way to being an international brand. We’re doing great – all around the world it’s doing really well. We’re about to go all over the world to promote it. It’s ridiculously exciting.”

Big special effects and prosthetic makeup scenes in Season 2:

Panettiere: “Oh, I’m sure! She is the indestructible cheerleader, so you assume she’ll be at the front of most of that action stuff.”
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James Kyson Lee’s Ando Masahashi becomes “a full-fledged regular” on “Heroes” in the new season, the actor is glad to report.
As far as he is concerned, Ando, who started off as the rather reckless and feckless pal of Hiro (Masi Oka) on the NBC hit, “has gone through one of the biggest growth transformations of all the characters. He started off thinking Hiro was living in a fantasyland, but slowly became a believer. Now he’s started spearheading some of their actions. He’s an important part of this mission, even though he doesn’t have powers right now. That’s something people can latch onto — the idea of facing danger knowing you’re mortal and don’t have super abilities. Ando plays the perspective of an audience member, and asks a lot of the questions viewers would ask.”

The Seoul-born, Bronx-bred Lee says that as far as socializing with the rest of the “Heroes” cast, “We try to when we have time, but there’s not a lot of time. We work at such a frenetic pace. One week I had to shoot four different scenes with four different directors. It was insane.”

SOURCE

Sylar Soy LatteAired Live : 06-29-2007
Episode 104 of Merrilwood, at thestream.tv had as a guest Zach Quinto (NBC’s Heroes ‘Sylar’)
Zachary Quinto discusses how he’s treated at your average Starbucks. He also talks about the upcoming season of Heroes an many other subjects. The full interview lasts 60 minutes, and you can check it out in full at www.thestream.tv EPISODE 104 of MERRILLWOOD with SYLAR .

Here’s a short clip:

To watch the whole interview visit http://www.thestream.tv

After last week’s press conference in Los Angeles, organized by NBC to announce the Heroes World Tour, Tim Kring, creator, writer and executive producer of the show, sat down to field questions about next season of Heroes .
Here’s the highlights from the Q&A session:

Q: Is everyone coming back for Season Two?

Kring: Well, I don’t want to spoil that for the fans. Clearly we left things up in the air with several of the characters and we want to make sure that the fans don’t know what’s going to happen so that it doesn’t spoil their [enjoyment].

Q: You said 24 episodes. Does that mean no one really died?

Kring: Again, you really just have to wait.

Q: But you’re keeping them available so you can bring them back?

Kring: Exactly, they’re all on retainer just in case they’re needed. [joking]

Q: So will there be some kind of recap for people who didn’t see last season?

Kring: Only slightly because the actual episode itself, it’s an episode entitled “Four Months Later” and so we pick up the stories four months after we left off at the end of the season. There is tremendous mystery in what happened during those four months and that’s part of why you’re watching these first few episodes. They’re revealing what actually happened. So the recap, in a way, is sort of built into the story.

Q: Will Tim Sale [the artist that -in reality- creates Isaac's artwork]be involved in Season Two?

Kring: Yes, Tim will be staying involved. So, the idea of the paintings is going to have a clever sort of reentry into the show.

Q: When you say four months later does that mean that Hiro will have been in feudal Japan for four months?

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This week Entertainment Weekly Magazine celebrates its 100th issue (on stands now, on the cover Hayden Panettiere ‘Claire Bennet’).

The special edition of EW Magazine includes the list of the top 100 celebrities of the world of entertainment. Heroes‘ Hayden Panettiere and the Masi Oka and George Takei ‘team’ are on the list.

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Hayden Panettiere
Teen Dream

WHY HER The breakout star of TV’s hottest new drama, Heroes, Panettiere plays Claire, an unbreakable high school girl who became synonymous with the show when the catchphrase ”Save the cheerleader, save the world!” entered the pop culture lexicon. ”I think it was very clever,” says the New York-born actress, although she admits that calls of ”Hey, cheerleader!” now follow her around Los Angeles. ”But it’s fun. It’s not an obnoxious thing.” Technically speaking, Claire doesn’t actually spend much time shaking pom-poms. ”I told [Heroes creator] Tim Kring I need to cheer at some point,” the actress says with a laugh. ”She wears the outfit all the time!”

Read the whole article on Masi Oka and George Takei

Greatest American Heroes
George Takei and Masi Oka

WHY THEM As Sulu on Star Trek, Takei, 70, blazed trails for Asian-American actors. As Hiro, time-warping supernerd of Heroes, Oka, 33, is just blazing. It was a stroke of genius and great respect to cast them as father and son on the new show.