EXCLUSIVE: Tim Kring‘s Heroes is eyeing a second encore with Heroes: Eclipsed, a brand new incarnation of the favored 2006 superhero drama collection, sources inform Deadline. Appropriately, the challenge is being pitched to patrons now, the week of the photo voltaic eclipse. (The unique collection began off with a photo voltaic eclipse within the pilot, which grew to become a recurring factor all through the collection, additionally mirrored in its brand.)
Written by Kring, Heroes: Eclipsed is ready years after the occasions of the unique collection as new evos are being woke up and discovering powers that can change their lives. That includes acquainted villains and new enemies who as soon as once more will probably be making an attempt to suppress this subsequent step in human evolution, it will likely be as much as this new group of heroes to save lots of the world.
The premise evokes the 2015 restricted collection Heroes Reborn, additionally created by Kring, which additionally was set years after the occasions within the unique collection and launched a brand new group of evos as extra atypical individuals found that they possess distinctive skills. The brand new characters have been joined by Heroes‘ Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman), who led the followup, with quite a few unique forged members making visitor appearances, together with Sendhil Ramamurthy (Dr Mohinder Suresh), Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura) and Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman).
Heroes ran for 4 seasons after a red-hot begin with a pop culture-defining “Save the cheerleader, save the world” first chapter that earned the present an Excellent Drama Collection Emmy nomination. Each the unique collection and restricted collection Heroes Reborn, which drew softer scores, aired on NBC. In response to sources, the brand new Heroes incarnation, which is envisioned as an ongoing collection, has been pitched to NBC together with streamers.
Kring is govt producing Heroes: Eclipsed along with his supervisor, Mosaic’s Jordan Cerf. Common Tv, a part of Common Studio Group, which is behind the Heroes franchise, is the studio. A rep for Uni TV declined remark.
Kring is repped by WME and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.