Heroes Live Blog

Thanks and Goodnight!

2007-09-25T03:29:55Z

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!

Besides Kevin Smith, who's been hired for Origins

2007-09-25T03:27:51Z

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.

HRG in cahoots with someone?

2007-09-25T03:26:55Z

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!

More about the Heroes Community Project?

2007-09-25T03:26:24Z

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.

The Virus

2007-09-25T03:25:51Z

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.

How much input Tim has on the online comic

2007-09-25T03:24:10Z

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.

Comic Book Fans?

2007-09-25T03:24:08Z

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.

Merchandise... new stuff coming out

2007-09-25T03:22:26Z

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.

Getting into your careers

2007-09-25T03:21:32Z

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.

HRG's role this season.

2007-09-25T03:21:16Z

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.

Is Origins the League of Extraordinary Old People?

2007-09-25T03:20:03Z

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.

Rumors that Jack and Greg's characters form an alliance

2007-09-25T03:17:46Z

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.

More Strong Female Heroes?

2007-09-25T03:17:40Z

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.

Does Jack ever want to lock out Mr. Muggles?

2007-09-25T03:16:19Z

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.

Stories Evolving During a Season

2007-09-25T03:15:46Z

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.