NBC Announces Heroes Reborn Miniseries for 2015 Premiere and Releases Teaser Trailer

 

During NBC's airing of the Winter Olympics on Saturday, the network surprised viewers with a teaser for Heroes Reborn.

 

Set to air in 2015, Reborn will be a 13-episode miniseries featuring a stand-alone arc. It is worth noting that the first Heroes series was originally planned as having a different stand-alone story arc each season. However, those who watched the 2006-2010 run will remember that the show ended up following the first season characters throughout its lifespan.

 

Though no story details have been revealed, we do know that creator Tim Kring will return to executive produce the miniseries. Also, a digital series will debut prior to Reborn to introduce the main characters.

 

“The enormous impact ‘Heroes’ had on the television landscape when it first launched in 2006 was eye-opening,” said NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke in a statement. “Shows with that kind of resonance don’t come around often and we thought it was time for another installment. We’re thrilled that visionary creator Tim Kring was as excited about jumping back into this show as we were and we look forward to all the new textures and layers Tim plans to add to his original concept. Until we get closer to air in 2015, the show will be appropriately shrouded in secrecy, but we won’t rule out the possibility of some of the show’s original cast members popping back in.”

 

 

Teaser:

 

[video=youtube;xXUjpHHfTLY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXUjpHHfTLY

 

 

Anyone at all interested in this? The show took a massive nose dive after the first season, I thought.

I'll be interested to see where they go with it, especially if it is set, as I imagine, in the same universe as the previous show. If they follow on from that, superpowers were made public right at the very end of the original series, so that could be a different direction.

 

Although, on the negative side, I feel Alphas kinda took the Heroes banner and ran with it. I'd rather have another series of that to tie up the cliffhangers left when the show was cancelled.

I imagine that the series will take on some of the stories from the comic books and graphic novels

 

Simple fact is the show suffered, like most programmes, due to the writers strike that cut the second season by half and lead to a rushed ending. Then they tried to cram different ideas and powers into the show to turn it around when most viewers by then wanted to see if Claire would lose the uniform or if Sylar would crush someone's skull with his mind. Plus they turned Peter into the most whinny emo prat ever.

 

They also stole the idea for the final series, with the deaf lady being able to destroy things using music and her playing from the Gerard Way comic mini-series, the Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Suite.

 

Heroes could basically have been a lot better, given the interlinking ideas they had, if the writers hadn't also disappeared up their bums and swallowed their own hype after season one as well.

When they had Future Peter and Future Sylar go at it, they laid the seeds for something epic and never followed up on it.

 

Removing Peter's powers and then giving him a diluted version sucked and the show never really recovered from that.

When they had Future Peter and Future Sylar go at it, they laid the seeds for something epic and never followed up on it.

 

Removing Peter's powers and then giving him a diluted version sucked and the show never really recovered from that.

 

This, the first season wrote a helluva lot of cheques that the show's a*s couldn't cash.

I tell you an episode I really like they could have done more with was the one were Peter was lead to believe Sylar was his brother and he went to visit him (this being in the future after Noah had cured Sylar).

 

Sylar had a son, which he named Noah and he was playing home maker and doing pancakes when Peter arrived to learn his basic power, that being able to work out how anything works - at the same time the government troops show up to take out Peter who they feel is a terrorist, accidently shoot Noah and Sylar goes nuclear

 

The episode is then made pointless when it turns out Sylar is not Peter's brother, that Noah cannot make him into a good company agent and stop him killing people and the whole scenario is rendered pointless.

 

Also what did Sylar mean when he read Claire's brain, took her power and then said that she wasn't like the rest so he couldn't kill her?

Exactly. Then when they got into the whole "brainwashing Sylar to look like Nathan to fool everyone" schtick, I knew I was pretty much done with the show. I just kept watching to see how bad it could get.

 

Turns out pretty bad, they just started randomly adding folks with powers as some kind of Deus Ex Machina to get the plot to where they wanted it. What started out as such a promising show turned really bad, really quick.

 

Actually, I was okay with everything up until the end of the 2nd season. I quite enjoyed all the Feudal Japan stuff with Adam and Hiro. It started to go downhill when they had to rush the ending of that arc becuase of the writer's strike.

 

Such a shame man, that show could've been so great.

I really liked the first season, the show has so much potential.

 

If the show had kept going I wonder how many characters Ali Larter would have ended up playing?

The initial promise of Heroes is enough to get me onboard with this. Hopefully it turns out better than the original series. Wouldn't mind it following Claire now she's out and introducing all new other characters.

Sylar was the best thing about the show and the premise was amazing but the actual show was crap, it took years to get to the point and even then nothing was explained.

Future Hiro was also all kinds of awesome, as was Arthur Petrelli (as much as I didn't like the "Peter depowered" part of the storyline).

I used to love it, but they ended up just bringing in characters for just long enough for you to get attached to them, then killing them. Plus the stories went dramatically downhill, I think the writers' strike which cut the second season in half really messed everything up and it never recovered.

I don't think it was just that, they lost the plot (literally) and it didn't really seem to have a direction. All the random swerves for no reason didn't help either.

New trailer...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHClJhC8Wfs

FUTURE HIRO!!!!

I didn't realise Hiro was back in this one. I knew Noah was still the mix somehow, but not Hiro. I guess I'll be checking out at least the first episode of this now.

Having watched the first two episodes, I feel it was back to Season 1 form, even if there were some less-than-stellar pieces.

 

A lot of subtle call-backs to the original run, with a number of recurring characters, motifs and motives, but with plenty of new characters to move us forward.

 

Also, Pruitt Taylor Vince is in it (in what appears to be a featured role) and he's one of my favourite character actors, so that's another plus.