Disappointing news has come in for Heroes’ new era ahead of the show celebrating its 20th anniversary.
In September 2006, Heroes introduced viewers to a world where people with superhuman abilities live in secret among the public. The NBC series ended in 2010 after four seasons, and over a decade and a half later, Heroes is now available to watch on Netflix. However, plans to reboot the show (again) have reportedly fallen through.
According to Matt’s Inside Line, despite Heroes: Eclipsed being announced two years ago, the reboot is “not active now.” No further details were provided, including whether this is a temporary pause or if the project has been completely shelved. Either way, this is an unfortunate update for Heroes fans with just a few months to go until the 20th anniversary of when the original show premiered on NBC.
Few details were revealed about Heroes: Eclipsed, which Tim Kring, the creator of the original show, was developing. Though the reboot was expected to focus on a new generation of powered individuals, it was also teased that established Heroes characters could return as well. It was also never clarified whether Eclipsed was intended to also air on NBC, or if it would be set up on a streaming service, like Peacock.
Heroes season 1 earned critical acclaim, and its many accolades included Golden Globe nominations for Best Television Drama and Best Supporting Actor in a TV series, the latter honor going to Masi Oka for his portrayal of the time-traveling Hiro Nakamura. However, the other three seasons weren’t received nearly as well, and viewership numbers steadily declined. NBC canceled Heroes after season 4, and the final episode ended with Hayden Panettiere’s Claire Bennet revealing the existence of powered people to the world.
Had Heroes: Eclipsed moved forward, it would have been the property’s second reboot. Heroes Reborn premiered on NBC in 2015, with the storyline taking place one year after a terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas that the United States government blamed on powered people, now labeled as “evos.” In addition to featuring newcomers like Zachary Levi, Robbie Kay, and Danika Yarosh, Reborn also brought back Oka, Jack Coleman, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Christine Rose, Greg Grunberg, Jimmy Jean-Louis, and Noah Gray-Cabey to reprise their respective Heroes roles.
Similar to Heroes’ latter three seasons, Heroes Reborn (which was accompanied by the web series Dark Matters and Damen Peak) earned mixed critical reception. As a result, despite the show being classified as a miniseries ahead of its premiere, NBC announced in January 2016 that it would not return for season 2. Reborn also ended with its own loose end, as Rose’s Angela Petrelli informed her great-grandchildren, Kay’s Nathan and Yarosh’s Malina, that their sinister-sounding biological father was coming.
With Heroes: Eclipsed reportedly no longer moving forward, only time will tell if there will eventually be another attempt to revive the Heroes mythology. For now, as mentioned earlier, Netflix houses the original show’s four seasons as of the beginning of this month. Kring’s next show is an adaptation of the 1960 movie The Magnificent Seven that’s been set up at MGM+.
- Release Date
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2006 – 2010-00-00
- Showrunner
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Tim Kring
- Directors
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Allan Arkush, Jeannot Szwarc, Adam Kane, Greg Yaitanes, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Roxann Dawson, Paul A. Edwards, John Badham, Donna Deitch, Kevin Dowling, Seith Mann, Ron Underwood, Paul Shapiro, Lesli Linka Glatter, S.J. Clarkson, Daniel Attias, David Straiton, Kevin Bray, David Semel, Holly Dale, Ed Bianchi, Nathaniel Goodman, Christopher Misiano, Ernest R. Dickerson
- Writers
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Tim Kring
