Updated 12th July: New interview added.
The upfront trailer indicated that Claire is dead. Are you going to get into how you weren't able to "save the cheerleader"? How will her absence be explained?
Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) is a key [returning] character who is still very much dealing with the death of his daughter and it is a part of his story. You’re watching a man dealing with the idea of the loss of his daughter that happened prior to our story. We deal directly with that that death. Her death is the key part of the plot.
How much does her death kick off the new story?
To the extent that he is reawaked on this mystery in the pilot and that's what drives him to discover the truth about what’s happening in the world — through this mystery of what happened to his daughter. It’s the portal of his story that becomes the mystery, thriller story for him: "I need to know what happened to my daughter."
Christine Rose (Angela) is back but Adrian Pasdar (Nathan) and Milo Ventimiglia (Peter) will not be returning. Why bring her back but not the others?
Nathan Petrelli was killed in the fourth season so try as I may, because I love Adrian, I couldn't figure out how to do that without betraying the core mythology of the show. As for Milo, we've had discussions about how and when [he could come back] and we couldn’t work out the timing. But Angela plays a key Machiavellian character in this plot. She did have a power that was very interesting to our plot.
Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) is a key [returning] character who is still very much dealing with the death of his daughter and it is a part of his story. You’re watching a man dealing with the idea of the loss of his daughter that happened prior to our story. We deal directly with that that death. Her death is the key part of the plot.
How much does her death kick off the new story?
To the extent that he is reawaked on this mystery in the pilot and that's what drives him to discover the truth about what’s happening in the world — through this mystery of what happened to his daughter. It’s the portal of his story that becomes the mystery, thriller story for him: "I need to know what happened to my daughter."
Christine Rose (Angela) is back but Adrian Pasdar (Nathan) and Milo Ventimiglia (Peter) will not be returning. Why bring her back but not the others?
Nathan Petrelli was killed in the fourth season so try as I may, because I love Adrian, I couldn't figure out how to do that without betraying the core mythology of the show. As for Milo, we've had discussions about how and when [he could come back] and we couldn’t work out the timing. But Angela plays a key Machiavellian character in this plot. She did have a power that was very interesting to our plot.
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DEADLINE: So, with so many unknowns about Heroes Reborn, what can we expect from this week’s panel? Any surprises?
TIM KRING: I’ll just tell you that on the panel, we’re going to show an extended trailer of Heroes Reborn and we are going to show the whole first episode from Dark Matters, the digital prequel. It is the prequel that sort of leads up to the show itself, and it does in fact have a central character that will be in the show itself played by Henry Zebrowski. He’s the star of the digital series, and he will become a major character in the series itself. Dark Matter tells a story that connects up with the show in a really unique way. I don’t think anybody’s ever quite done a series that connects up to the show in the way this does. We’re obviously really looking forward to people seeing it, Hall H is just an extremely surreal experience.
DEADLINE: Heroes Reborn is set for a 13-episode run but do you see a way that could continue ever further?
KRING: Well, the assignment and what we discussed with NBC was an event, and what that does, it gives us the opportunity to do a closed-ended story that has a beginning, and a middle, and an end, and in this day and age with so many things to compete for people’s eyeballs and their attention on television, to log onto something that tells a finite story and has an end in sight I think gives the audience that peace of mind that they can jump on it without believing that it’s going to go on endlessly and maybe not pay off in the end.
That being said, the Heroes universe is a very big premise, and Heroes has always been able to reinvent itself and repopulate itself with new characters and new stories. We, on the original series, often told stores in volumes as it would have a beginning, and a middle, and an end, and so, in a sense, the real hardcore Heroes audience is already somewhat familiar with the idea of these smaller, contained stories. So in success and if we are invited back to the dance, I do believe we can build enough into this particular one to leave questions and empty road ahead of us for talking new story.
TIM KRING: I’ll just tell you that on the panel, we’re going to show an extended trailer of Heroes Reborn and we are going to show the whole first episode from Dark Matters, the digital prequel. It is the prequel that sort of leads up to the show itself, and it does in fact have a central character that will be in the show itself played by Henry Zebrowski. He’s the star of the digital series, and he will become a major character in the series itself. Dark Matter tells a story that connects up with the show in a really unique way. I don’t think anybody’s ever quite done a series that connects up to the show in the way this does. We’re obviously really looking forward to people seeing it, Hall H is just an extremely surreal experience.
DEADLINE: Heroes Reborn is set for a 13-episode run but do you see a way that could continue ever further?
KRING: Well, the assignment and what we discussed with NBC was an event, and what that does, it gives us the opportunity to do a closed-ended story that has a beginning, and a middle, and an end, and in this day and age with so many things to compete for people’s eyeballs and their attention on television, to log onto something that tells a finite story and has an end in sight I think gives the audience that peace of mind that they can jump on it without believing that it’s going to go on endlessly and maybe not pay off in the end.
That being said, the Heroes universe is a very big premise, and Heroes has always been able to reinvent itself and repopulate itself with new characters and new stories. We, on the original series, often told stores in volumes as it would have a beginning, and a middle, and an end, and so, in a sense, the real hardcore Heroes audience is already somewhat familiar with the idea of these smaller, contained stories. So in success and if we are invited back to the dance, I do believe we can build enough into this particular one to leave questions and empty road ahead of us for talking new story.
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