NBC Brings Heroes Back From The Dead
The superhero super-hit will be back in 2015 as Heroes: Reborn.
Yatta! Heroes is coming back.
NBC has confirmed that the popular drama about ordinary people discovering that they have super-powers will return in 2015 as Heroes: Reborn, a limited-run series, with a 13-episode stand-alone arc. Should the show prove a hit the second time around, we presume the door is open for more.
The network made the announcement with an on-air teaser during the Winter Olympics. Watch it below!
Original series creator Tim Kring is back at the helm. But there is no word yet on whether any of the show’s original cast will return as regular cast members — though the show could certainly make copious use of them as guest stars.
The series ran from 2006 to 2010 on NBC. It was initially a bit hit for the peacock network, with the “Save the Chearleader, Save the World” promotional campaign and a villain named Sylar who murdered people in order to steal their abilities and add them to his own deadly arsenal. The show stumbled a bit creatively in later seasons, abandoning initial plans to continuously rotate cast members and dealing with the WGA writer’s strike in Heroes‘ abbreviated second season.
Heroes helped to make a number of stars … who are now busy with other projects. Hayden Penettiere (“Claire Bennet”), now age 24, is starring on ABC’s Nashville. Zachary Quinto (“Sylar”) has become a movie star, including the role of Spock in J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot. Masi Oka (“Hiro Nakamura”) co-stars in Hawaii Five-0 for CBS. And Milo Ventimiglia (“Peter Petrelli”) has just been cast as a lead in the ABC genre pilot The Visitors.
The new characters and storylines will be introduced in a digital series prior to the debut of the TV series, Deadline reports.
Heroes was a major international hit for Universal Television, and murmurs of a possible return — as a mini-series, a 2-hour TV movie, or on a digital platform such as Netflix — have been in the air since the show signed off. When we last left our heroes, Claire Bennet was on the verge of exposing the existence of people with powers to the entire world.
