Heroes: Origins dead in the water
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Heroes prequel, previously promised by Seven, is officially no more.
The NBC drama won’t return until September in the US, as network exec Ben Silverman has confirmed, “We consciously chose to rest (Heroes) this spring so that (creator) Tim Kring and his team could get ahead of the creative.
Heroes: Origins was originally conceived to help eliminate Heroes repeats, and directors and writers -including feature-film veterans Kevin Smith, Eli Roth and Michael Dougherty- were already lined up before NBC dropped the idea.
“We were taxing our creative team to do too much around that,” Silverman said. “We wanted 35 Heroes (episodes) and 12 Heroes: Origins, each of which was supposed to be a mini-movie and backdoor pilot. We reached far and challenged our people, and we decided it was better to focus on keeping the Heroes mothership as strong as possible.”
Seven still has two more eps in its arsenal that it is likely to air with the next season. But while the US will have a refresher clip show to remind its audience of the plotlines prior to its re-launch, Seven won’t benefit from that. No doubt it “refreshes” a few scenes Aussie audiences are yet to see.
Source: scifi.com
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Fingers crossed for a comic book prequel at least.
My understanding is it was shelved indefinitely.
http://tvtonight.com.au
/2007/11/nbc-halts-heroes-spin-off.html
Not anymore.
This is old news, it was announced last year this wouldnt go ahead.
Oh, and torture-porn director Eli Roth writing for Heroes? Now THAT would be interesting 😀
I recall reading way, way back at the start of the writers’ strike that plans for “Origins” had been cancelled, and the news that the show won’t be back at all until the next US season has also been doing the rounds for some time.
It’s a good thing, I think. What there was of season 2 was so mind-bogglingly awful that it almost completely undid the good work that went into the first season (but then, the season 1 finale was a massive misfire as well).
I do love that “get ahead of the creative” line. In other words, “come up with something decent, Kring, or you’re fired”!
As for Seven’s hold-the-last-two-episodes joke, well, aside from prompting some of the biggest seed/peer numbers I’ve ever seen on BitTorrent for those episodes, they’re going to find pretty quickly, I think, that trying to staple those two together with the next US season will be a massive mistake tone-wise.
I’m really, really sick of this hold-the-finale policy of Australian TV. But hey, I’ve got 60GB of downloady goodness now, I no longer have to care 🙂
People that watch this show will not have waited for Seven to reschedule the last 2 episodes they refused to show. Again, the viewing public are treated with contempt.
i was so disappointed by this, i was really looking forward to heroes origins, the writers strike just came at the worst possible time for this show. plus channel 7 really should have aired those 2 episodes of heroes considering they are actually the end of the season. at least with other shows that got stopped on aussie tv before they did in america the season didn’t actually finish there they picked the seasons up again after the strike.