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‘Heroes: Origins’ is now Extinct!

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Lightening! 

TV Guide report that NBC’s spin-off show ‘Heroes: Origins’ has been scrapped due to the pending writers strike:

NBC has pulled the plug on Heroes: Origins, the Heroes spin-off that was slated to run next April. The network declined comment, but sources said the possible strike by the Writers Guild of America — which could happen after the guild’s contract expires midnight Thursday — played a role in the decision.“Looking at everything in context of the strike, we’re evaluating all of our production commitments,” said one insider. “Scripts haven’t been written yet.”Origins was designed to provide fans with six episodes of a fresh Heroes-related show in place of repeats in the spring. If the labor situation changes quickly, the network could revisit the decision to scrap the show.

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‘Origins’ Drops it’s Name & Elle’s Bells

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Kristen Bell is ‘Elle’
The Watcher reports that the Heroes spin off series ‘Heroes: Origins’ will lose it’s name:

It was titled “Heroes: Origins,” but it will no longer be called that. A representative for the network said that a title for the new series had not been chosen yet.

The Watcher also has some spoilery stuff on new ‘Hero’, Elle, who is played by Kristen Bell. Elle will make her debut in this coming Mondays “Fight or Flight”episode and it is believed that she is connected to the company – in fact she was raised by them. She also has links to Peter, who she is looking for, and H.R.G and Claire – who she has a ‘special’ relationship with (Sister, anyone?). Whilst many of our Heroes (Sylar aside) struggle with the morality issues and the power that their abilities give them, Elle is more than happy to use hers. She is also believed to be behind Peter’s recent memory loss.

It all sounds very interesting, basically she sounds like the crazy female version of Sylar, only more jovial. Read more here.

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Eli Roth to Write/Direct Heroes Origins

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

IGN report that Hostel writer and directer, Eli Roth, will be writing/directing an episode of Heroes spin-off series, ‘Origins’.

IGN also report that two other writers will be contributing in ‘Origins’:

The other two names were John August, writer of Big Fish and writer/director of the independent film The Nines, along with Michael Dougherty, who was co-writer of Bryan Singer’s X2, as well as Superman Returns. It appears that Kring may have jumped the gun in the interview however, as NBC has not confirmed the involvement of anyone other than Smith. However, they’re not denying it either. And as far as details about Heroes, there are probably few sources as credible as Tim Kring. What he may not have known was the details of the particular deals for each of the writers or directors, so anything can still happen at this point.

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