Heroes creator and executive producer Tim Kring hit Comic-Con yesterday to promote his new USA Network series Dig, which is expected to hit television screens later this year, but inevitably, someone was going to ask “the Heroes Reborn question,” as the sequel to the once-popular NBC series is due to arrive sometime in 2015, again helmed by Kring.
More specifically, with Dig running for a finite number of episodes as a complete story, and Heroes Reborn seemingly doing the same thing, is that an advantage over that Heroes had back in the day?
“There is one thing that is an advantage, and that is that Heroes Reborn has a beginning, and a middle, and an end, with a set number of episodes. I think that this has now become a very modern style of making content,” Kring said. “The ‘event series’ – or mini-series, whatever you want to call them – which can be open-ended in success, but rather than looking at it at an ongoing series, you look at it as a franchise, or a sequel, or a prequel… an event. I had always thought that Heroes lent itself – because it is about multiple characters in the world, and an undisclosed number of characters – that we could repopulate the show and start with a fresh story. So yes, it does feel like it maybe is the right time for a rebirth,” he added.
At the recent press tour, it sounded as though Heroes Reborn will be tackled once Dig is finished with production. Stay tuned for more details about the project as they become available!
