Heroes Live Blog http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/ en Copyright 2008 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:29:55 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thanks and Goodnight! 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!

]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/thanks_and_goodnight.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/thanks_and_goodnight.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:29:55 -0500 Besides Kevin Smith, who's been hired for Origins 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.

]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/besides_kevin_smith_whos_been.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/besides_kevin_smith_whos_been.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:27:51 -0500 HRG in cahoots with someone? 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!

]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/hrg_in_cahoots_with_someone.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/hrg_in_cahoots_with_someone.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:26:55 -0500 More about the Heroes Community Project? 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.

]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/more_about_the_heroes_communit.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/more_about_the_heroes_communit.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:26:24 -0500 The Virus 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.

]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/the_virus.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/the_virus.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:25:51 -0500 How much input Tim has on the online comic 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.

]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/how_much_input_tim_has_on_the.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/how_much_input_tim_has_on_the.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:24:10 -0500 Comic Book Fans? 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.

]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/comic_book_fans.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/comic_book_fans.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:24:08 -0500 Merchandise... new stuff coming out 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.

]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/merchandise_new_stuff_coming_o.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/merchandise_new_stuff_coming_o.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:22:26 -0500 Getting into your careers 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.

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Tim: Let's just say that the company that HRG was a part of... we haven't seen the last of it.

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]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/is_origins_the_league_of_extra.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/is_origins_the_league_of_extra.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:20:03 -0500 Rumors that Jack and Greg's characters form an alliance 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.

]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/rumors_that_jack_and_gregs_cha.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/rumors_that_jack_and_gregs_cha.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:17:46 -0500 More Strong Female Heroes? 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.

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]]> http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/does_jack_ever_want_to_lock_ou.php http://blog.nbc.com/heroes/2007/09/does_jack_ever_want_to_lock_ou.php Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:16:19 -0500 Stories Evolving During a Season 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.

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