Does Anyone Want More Heroes?
Yikes, Heroes creator Tim Kring is back and he’s once again trying to restart the once-popular series that burned bright and flamed out just as quickly in the 2000s. Deadline reports that he’s now currently shopping a proposed revival (the second, for those keeping score) to prospective buyers. When the show premiered on NBC in 2006 it started as a more grounded take on X-Men, about ordinary people around the world discovering they have latent superpowers, seemingly awakened by an eclipse. The eclipse was referenced in the logo, repeated throughout the series and, like a lot of things about it, never fully explained. Kring was likely waiting for the recent real-life eclipse to make this announcement. The proposed revival is called “Heroes Eclipsed.” Heroes started out pretty great, with a fascinating cast of characters including a cheerleader with super-healing powers that make her immortal, a quirky Japanese man who can blink his way through time and space, and a supervillain that grows more powerful the longer it takes for the