Tim Kring talks Heroes Season Two

Monday, June 25, 2007

Tim Kring did an interview with SuperheroHype and talked about a lot of stuff. He mentioned that season two is designed to possibly be three full story arcs, rather then one long one. There are definately looking to go places with the series.

Heroes: Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura

Q: How do far do you think you are at this point?
Kring: Well, we’re obviously taking it one season at a time and I have some big ideas of what the sort of big tent pole ideas of each season, what those are, but this season we started we knew where we were going in terms of the themes and the ideas behind it, but it’s ten writers in a room for ten thousand hours talking to each other. That’s basically what it comes down to.

Q: Will Tim Sayle be involved in Season Two?
Kring: Yes, Tim will be staying involved. So, the idea of the paintings is going to have a clever sort of reentry into the show.

Q: When you say four months later does that mean that Hiro will have been in feudal Japan for four months?
Kring: No. Hiro’s story is the only one that picks up exactly where we meet him. So he’s existing on a timeframe outside of the rest of the story.

Q: Will we be seeing more of George Takei?
Kring: Yes, we will see more of George Takei.

Q: Expanding on the “Generations” title, will we see more of the story with the Petrelli’s mother and sort of this history?
Kring: The idea of “Generations,” last year we set up this sort of sense that there was this other generation represented by the Linderman character and then Petrelli’s mom and George Takei and Richard Roundtree’s character. All of these characters set up the idea that there was another generation that had secrets of their own and this season one of those themes that we’re going to talk about are the sins of the parents being visited upon the children. That’s one of the themes, this idea of how generationally we are left with problems that we have to fix.

Q: Will we find out that George Takei has powers and what they are?
Kring: Yes, eventually.