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Don't miss the live blog with Heroes creator Tim Kring and Jack Coleman (Noah Bennet) after the season premiere on Monday, September 24, 10pm (ET)!
September 24, 10:29 PM
Tim: All I will say is if you enjoyed the show last year, you're going to flip out for it this year. We're taking it to some really new and fascinating places. A show like this can't stand still, so we hit the ground running tonight. But where this show goes from here is really off the charts!
Jack: One thing Tim does so brilliantly is start out the new season with a story that brings new viewers up to speed quickly while rewarding old viewers with a twist, a turn...two people whose roles have reversed. Whatever it is, faithful viewers will see new story lines but those who are new to the show will be brought along and won't have to have seen the whole first season to get it. The whole international scopes is really captures here...Ireland, Dominican Republic...it feels like a global event which is really exciting and very impressive.
Tim: And most importantly, thank you all for joining us tonight!
Jack: Yes, thanks to everyone!
September 24, 10:27 PM
Tim: We've now hired Eli Roth who is behind the Hostel movies. Also Michael Dougherty, who wrote Superman Returns, and one of the X Men movies. And also John August, who is one of the preeminent screenwriters in Hollywood. He wrote Tim Burton's "Big Fish," "Go," and others. So there's some really good writers and I'll be writing the first episode. Look for some very well known directors to also be attached.
September 24, 10:26 PM
Jack: The most fun part about this character is that I generally get to cahoot with almost everybody at this point...I cross paths with just about everybody! The one character I haven't locked horns with, and while I'm not pitching this to Tim, there might be some mileage in a Nathan/HRG tete a tete.
Tim: The thing about Adrian is he makes this combinations fun...he brings out the best in everybody. He's one of those actors who makes everyone step up a notch.
Jack: The two dads.
Tim: My Two Dads
Jack: It will be like John Stamos locking horns with Bob Sagat!
September 24, 10:26 PM
Tim: This is still happening. We are putting some things together for the online community first. We will start online and then start to weave some of the ideas onto the show itself. In the next month or so, I'll be making a statement online about it so look out in the next month or six weeks.
September 24, 10:25 PM
Tim: Look for the virus to play a major role in this particular volume. It becomes something that's quite dangerous to every single character.
September 24, 10:24 PM
Tim: Those are done internally. Several of the writers have been involved. I have not written one myself, but I get pitched the storylines. When I get the pitch, it's just a few minute pitch on what they're about. We talk about them mainly in terms of what storylines we sort of want to leak out or what secrets we want to incorporate into the online comic book, but in terms of stories themselves, I'm not that involved.
September 24, 10:24 PM
Jack: I was a comic book fan kind of up until my 15th or 16th birthday...I was a Marvel comic guy, rather than DC. I had about 2 years of being fairly rabid about it, then I kinda petered out.
Tim: It may surprise you that the only comic book I remember reading i my entire life was Richie Rich, so I'm not so sure that had any influence over my work on Heroes.
September 24, 10:22 PM
Tim: Well, there's a lot through NBC.com and through the NBC store, as well as the DVD and HD-DVD. And look for in the future a line of clothing based on Heroes.
September 24, 10:21 PM
Jack: I started very early, I did it all through school, I majored in it in college and then when that was all over I went to New York to seek my fame and fortune and within a year I was in California with a job and shortly after that got onto the series Dynasty and have been cemented out here, slugging away every since.
Tim: I went to graduate school...film school at USC. Got out and worked n production for a few years until I wrote a script, got an agent, went on a million pitch meetings, sold my first assignment which was an episode of Knight Rider, got paid to write that episode and have never looked back...I've been a writer ever since. When I realized I could make a living pacing around my room coming up with make-believe ideas.
September 24, 10:21 PM
Jack: Keeping Claire out of the clutches of certain people plays a big part of his role this season, though he will have his own self-interests in mind.
Tim: Let's just say that the company that HRG was a part of... we haven't seen the last of it.
September 24, 10:20 PM
Tim: Origins ia a completely separate series based on the idea that there are people all over the world emerging with these powers. Each one of the Origins episodes deals with one or a couple of these characters in a closed ended storyline that has almost nothing to do with the world of Heroes. They are complete stories unto themselves. And the ages of these characters hasn't been determined yet.
September 24, 10:17 PM
Jack: I think they've got that wrong a little bit. We had more of a partnership in season one than we do so far in season two.
Tim: Though that could be another character.
Jack: That could be some other character, an unexpected character.
September 24, 10:17 PM
Tim: Yes, there's a crop of them as a matter of fact! Tonight's episode had Maya played by Dania Ramirez, who is going to have to be tested as a hero in order to overcome the obstacles that she faces. The other is Monica played by Dana Davis who is introduced in episode 4 and many of you know that we just signed Kristen Bell to be on our cast as well, so look forward to her playing a very interesting, delicious character.
September 24, 10:16 PM
Jack: Mr. Muggles' special ability is the ability to manufacture at will a doggie door into any solid surface: he's almost impossible to put out.
September 24, 10:15 PM
Tim: Yes, the general idea was plotted out from the very beginning but many of the specifics changed along the way. The show has a very organic quality to it, it goes where it wants to go, not where you want it to go. A classic example of that is Jack's character who has become such a huge part of the show...which was in large part due to Jack and the way people responded to him. We like to go where the show tells us to go, which means a lot can change over the course of the season as to where we're headed.
September 24, 10:15 PM
T: We have no deal with Chris at this time though we would love to revisit that character. He's a very busy working actor so finding time is difficult.
J: Plus, he's invisible so he could be there and you wouldn't know it.
September 24, 10:14 PM
Tim: There are none planned as of yet.
September 24, 10:14 PM
Jack: Tim Sale made that for me right before I walked on the stage. I had seen something like that and I said "Man, I'd love one of those." So I called him and he said to bring an old bicycle t-shirt and I'll make one.
September 24, 10:12 PM
Jack: Lots of cash prizes?! Actually, just look at the title, which is generation and that will give you some hint as to where the story is going.
Tim: Tremendous excitement! Ok, wait...here's one: Sins of the parents are visited upon the children!
September 24, 10:10 PM
T: You kind of have to keep watching to find out. To be honest, it's not clear to the audience how much of Sylar's abilities Peter has absorbed, so I think we will all have to stay tuned for that now that people on the east coast know of Peter's fate.
Also, people have asked if there will be self-contained episodes. We will never have an episode with just one hero, but we learned that the audience likes to spend more time in one episode with one character, but because we have so many characters, that gets difficult for us, but that's definitely the goal to spend more time with individual characters.
September 24, 10:09 PM
Jack: Yes, I do from time to time and it's pretty amazing to see the level of involvement with the audience. I have to say that for a show like ours, the internet has been huge!
Tim: I try not to log on, as a rule. Just because you can get really drawn into that world very easily and I don't have a lot of free time. But more importantly, my job is several weeks if not months ahead of where the audience is responding. Tonight you're seeing the premiere, but we're already shooting episode 9. So our day to day issues are literally months ahead of where the audience is...so it doesn't really help us much to hear immediate response to an episode.
September 24, 10:09 PM
J: We actually just did commentary on episode one and I know they have commentary on episode two coming, so yes.
September 24, 10:07 PM
Tim: The show has become very popular all around the world and I think largely due to the international cast that we have and the depiction of these global issues that people relate to. So the world tour was very much in the spirit of continuing to make the show a more international show.
September 24, 10:06 PM
Jack: I would say that this show has the best chemistry of any show I've ever worked on, and that's a lot of shows in my 25 years. There's a special place in my heart for Hayden, who I work with the most. I just love this whole cast...there's nobody that I don't look forward to working with.
September 24, 10:05 PM
T: My favorite part was sitting in the editing room in Los Angeles cause I didn't go! I was working on the show. So I think I'll leave it to Jack.
J: And thank God someone here was minding the store. The world tour was utterly fantastic and a great experience. I went with Milo, Adrian, and Hayden. We worked very hard and there was little sleep and got punchy toward the end, but had a great time. And the response in London, Paris, and Munich was phenomenal. We had moments of Heroes mania in general which was great cause you don't want to go on a world tour and be greeted with a giant yawn.
September 24, 10:03 PM
Jack: There will be a lot of insight into how Primatech and The Companycame into being as the season goes forward and all I can tell you is that it has something to do with the title of the volume which is "Generations."
September 24, 10:01 PM
Jack: No. All input comes from either performance or from what Tim and company decide is the direction they want to go with the character, but I don't ever lobby for story. I think performance and chemistry definitely affect storyline. Certainly on the day while shooting things can be changed in minor ways to make it work better, and if you have an idea for something, but the only story I ever pitched was in Company Man was that HRG and Claire were picking out the horned rimmed glasses when he told her she was adopted.
September 24, 10:00 PM
Jack: I really can't tell you a whole lot about Lyle. I can tell you that Sandra definitely is much more in the loop this time and has quite a spine and backbone to her this season, more so than last season. Now she has much more input into things. Claire, obviously has a monstrous storyline and she's got the love interest now. And obviously the complications with Wes is only going to get more...I obviously don't want her to have a boyfriend and not only does she have one, but she has one with a history! Flying boyfriends are VERY distracting!
September 19, 07:34 PM
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