User:Janrodrigo/Information Update

Information Update is the page where all updates of all kinds of informations regarding Heroes are present. The informations includes both real-world (RW) and in-universe (IU) data. While at one hand, it gives the chronology of occurrences; on the other hand it explains how the audience got to know everything a.k.a the revelation chronology.
"Heroes Creation" is the list of everything and everyone that/who participated in the creation of Heroes.

• The chronological order of the entire "Heroes Creation" is provided with (bold numbers) within parentheses. (1, 2, 3...)
• The chronological order of the crew is provided with (bold roman numbers) within parentheses. (I, II, III...)
• The chronological order of the cast is provided with (italic numbers) within parentheses. (1, 2, 3...)
• Any person who is not any more a member of the crew or the cast will be completely italic.

2005

1. It all starts when Tim Kring (1, I) decides to write a story about everyday people, discovering their extraordinary abilities. He develops different ideas and forms a story.
2. He calls his story by the name Heroes.
3. Tim Kring presents his ideas and the plot for the first episode to NBC, where he has been working for a long time.
   • NBC, the National Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Its headquarters is in the GE building in New York City’s Rockefeller Centre. It was formed first in 1926. Now it is owned by the NBC Universal Incorporation.
   • NBC Universal Inc. itself is a media and entertainment company formed by the merger of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Now 80% of NBC Universal is owned by General Electric, the remaining 20% is owned by Vivendi.
   • NBC Universal products are: NBC, NBC Universal Studios, NBC Universal Television Group, NBC News, USA, CNBC, MSNBC cable TV, NBC.com, MSNBC.com, iVillage, Bravo, qubo, SendMeRSS, Telemundo Television Studios, The Weather Channel.
4. NBC (2) approves the project. So Kring makes an agreement with the NBC Universal Inc..
5. Its product NBC.com (3) declares that NBC will be airing a new series called Heroes.
6. Tim Kring and NBC start to form the crew (4) and the cast (5).
7. Dennis Hammer (II) joins the crew as an Executive Producer.
8. Jeph Loeb (III) joins the crew as the Co-executive Producer. He is a very famous comic book writer, screenwriter and producer.
9. Tim Sale (IV) joins the crew as the Artistic Consultant. Therefore, we have
10. Tim Sale's website (6) which will also provide us with upcoming information.

December 2, 2005

11. A network draft of Heroes' pilot is written by Tim Kring. The chapter covers are painted by Tim Sale and it is copy righted by NBC. It is composed of four chapters and will be released much later.

February 2006

February 10, 2006

12. tv.com (7) declares that Ali Larter (1) and Hayden Panettiere (2) have just joined the cast of NBC's Heroes.

February 17, 2006

13. Milo Ventimiglia (3) joins the cast of Heroes. tv.com

February 22, 2006

14. Greg Grunberg (4) joins the cast of Heroes. tv.com

March - May 2006

March 3, 2006

15. David Semel (V) joins the crew as the Director of the pilot.

16. The production of the show is decided to be realised by NBC Universal Media Studios (8) in association with Tailwind Productions (9), a film production company founded by Tim Kring.

17. An interview with Tim Kring reveals the following:

"It's about very ordinary people all over the world who literally discover that they have special powers, and it's their dealing with that. The superheroes, er, ordinary people include; a 30-year-old male nurse who believes he can fly; a 28-year-old junkie who has the ability to paint images of the future; a 33-year-old Las Vegas showgirl who can do incredible things with mirrors; a 24-year-old Japanese comic-book geek who literally makes time stand still; a 31-year-old inmate who can transport himself through walls; and a 17-year-old cheerleader who defies death at every turn." "Not only are they discovering what having superpowers means to them but also the larger picture of where their superpowers come from. Eventually their superpowers draw them together when they try to evade the series’ antagonist who wants to harness their super-DNA for himself." "It’s pretty grounded in reality. Part of what makes it really feel very real is that these people’s lives should mirror your own; you should be able to see your ordinary life reflected on screen. It’s a big interconnected saga. They’re all drawn together towards a destiny of saving the world. And it’s extremely serialized.”

March 3 - April 2006

18. Adrian Pasdar (5) joins the cast of Heroes. (March 7)

19. Skip Beaudine (VI) joins the crew as a Producer.

20. Lori Motyer (VII) joins the crew as the Co-producer.

April - May 12, 2006

21. Leonard Roberts (6) joins the cast of Heroes.

22. Noah Gray-Cabey (7) joins the cast of Heroes.

23. Tawny Cypress (8) joins the cast of Heroes.

24. Sendhil Ramamurthy (9) joins the cast of Heroes.

25. Santiago Cabrera (10) joins the cast of Heroes.

26. James Kyson Lee (11) joins the cast of Heroes.

27. Masi Oka (12) joins the cast of Heroes.

28. Burk Sauls (VIII) joins the crew as the Colourist. He colours only three paintings of Tim Sale. Then he's let go.

29. Dave Stewart (IX) joins the crew as the Colourist.

30. The shootings of the first plot of the pilot begins. The pilot will supposedly be two hours long.

31. NBC.com announces that the TV series will also appear as an animated digital comic book based on characters and plot lines from the show.

May 13, 2006

32. the Futon Critic (10) publishes its first review about the show. The plot provided follows:

Scrolling intro text tells us that "a seemingly random group of individuals has emerged with what can only be described as 'special abilities.'" And that "these individuals will not only save the world, but change it forever." From here we make the rounds on the show's rather large ensemble cast: there's Peter Petrelli (a surprisingly upbeat Milo Ventimiglia), a nurse who has dreams that he can fly; his skeptical brother Nathan (Adrian Pasdar), who's running for office; Niki Sanders (Ali Larter), a Vegas webcam stripper who catches her own reflection moving; her prodigy son Micah (Noah Gray-Cabey); Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere), a Texas cheerleader who finds she's literally unbreakable; Isaac Mendez (Santiago Cabrera), a junkie artist whose paintings reveal the future; and Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), a corporate drone who thinks he can move space and time. Tying them all together is Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy), a professor in India whose controversial theories about evolution have drawn the attention of a mysterious figure (known only as "Horn Rimmed Glasses" in the script). It seems said beliefs also led to his father's death and, fearing for his life, he flees to New York to seek out one of the evolutionary leaps he's been tracking. There, undercover as a cab driver, he stumbles upon Peter, who's now convinced himself he can fly and is willing to literally take the leap to prove it. We also begin to see the various connections between our "special" people, such as the daughter of one of Peter's patients (Tawny Cypress) is dating Isaac, one of Hiro's friends is a regular "viewer" of Niki and in the pilot's final big reveal - who "Horn Rimmed Glasses" actually is. Oh, and did I mention this all is happening during a solar eclipse?

May 16, 2006

33. HeroesTheSeries (11), the first fan site started.

34. NBC.com declares that the show will be aired Monday 9 - 10 p.m., EST. It also posts the following:

The epic drama Heroes chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. As a total eclipse casts it shadow across the globe, viewers follow a genetics professor (Sendhil Ramamurthy, Blind Guy Driving) in India whose father's disappearance leads him to uncover a secret theory - there are people with super powers living among us. A young dreamer (Milo Ventimiglia, The Bedford Diaries) tries to convince his politician brother (Adrian Pasdar, Judging Amy) that he can fly. A high school cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere, Ice Princess) learns that she is totally indestructible. A Las Vegas stripper (Ali Larter, Final Destination), struggling to make ends meet to support her young son (Noah Gray-Cabey, My Wife & Kids), uncovers that her mirror image has a secret. A prison inmate (Leonard Roberts, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) mysteriously finds himself waking up outside of his cell. A gifted artist (Santiago Cabrera, Empire), whose drug addiction is destroying his life and the relationship with his girlfriend (Tawny Cypress, Third Watch), can paint the future. A down-on-his-luck beat cop (Greg Grunberg, Alias) can hear people's thoughts, including the secrets of a captured terrorist. In Japan, a young man (Masi Oka, Scrubs) develops a way to stop time through sheer will power. Their ultimate destiny is nothing less than saving the world. Heroes is executive produced by creator/writer Tim Kring (Crossing Jordan), Dennis Hammer (Crossing Jordan), and David Semel (House), who also directed the pilot. The drama is from NBC Universal Television Studio.

May 19, 2006

35. Wikipedia (12) makes its first entry about the show. It roughly explains the show. It continues by telling the characters' whereabouts, their collective role in the story line. Then it declares the cast members.

Overview I

Heroes is created Tim Kring. But, for taking a shape it needed a crew and a cast and for spreading out to the world it needed media organisations and/or companies. Only through these Heroes could be Heroes - an interconnecting saga.
"Heroes Creation" can further be divided into four:

• People or Companies, the ones directly creating or being directly involved with the Heroes Universe,
• Official Media, subsidiary of the first one; the media that is officially related to Heroes,
• Unofficial Media, all the other Heroes fansites, blogs etc... providing us information and
• Unrelated Media all the other media that is not directly with Heroes, but that provides us with information and content.

Heroes Creation

People or Companies

1. Tim Kring
2. NBC
3. The Crew
4. The Cast
5. NBC Universal Media Studios
6. Tailwind Productions

Official Media

1. NBC.com
2. Tim Sale's website

Unofficial Media

1. HeroesTheSeries

Unrelated Media

1. tv.com
2. the Futon Critic
3. Wikipedia

The Crew

1. Tim Kring, the Creator, the Writer and an Executive Producer
2. Dennis Hammer, an Executive Producer
3. Jeph Loeb, the Co-executive Producer
4. Tim Sale, the Artistic Consultant
5. David Semel, the Director and an Executive Producer
6. Skip Beaudine, a Producer.
7. Lori Motyer, the Co-producer.
8. Burk Sauls, the Colourist
9. Dave Stewart, the Colourist

The Cast

1. Ali Larter will play Niki Sanders a 33-year-old Las Vegas showgirl who can do incredible things with mirrors.
2. Hayden Panettiere will play Claire Bennet a 17-year-old cheerleader who defies death at every turn.
3. Milo Ventimiglia will play Peter Petrelli a 30-year-old male nurse who believes he can fly.
4. Greg Grunberg will play a down-on-his-luck beat cop, who can hear people's thoughts.
5. Adrian Pasdar will play Nathan Petrelli a politician. He is the elder brother of Peter.
6. Leonard Roberts will play D. L. Hawkins a 31-year-old inmate who can transport himself through walls.
7. Noah Gray-Cabey will play Micah, Niki's son.
8. Tawny Cypress will be the artist's girlfriend.
9. Sendhil Ramamurthy will play Mohinder Suresh a genetics professor in India whose father's disappearance leads him to uncover a secret theory.
10. Santiago Cabrera will play Isaac Mendez, a 28-year-old junkie who has the ability to paint images of the future.
11. James Kyson Lee
12. Masi Oka will play Hiro Nakamura a 24-year-old Japanese comic-book geek who literally makes time stand still.

June 2006

36. Wendy Melvoin (X) and Lisa Coleman (XI) join the crew as the Music Composers.

June 5, 2006

37. NBC.com releases the first preview video of Heroes - a four minute clip.

June 7, 2006

38. A promotional flash animation: Claire & the Cat, appears at Tim Sale's website. It is a preview of what Heroes will look like. The animation is composed of 15 drawings by Tim Sale. The animation shows us a young Claire, a cat, a truck driver then Hiro and mentions a Mr. Isaac.

June 12, 2006

39. Heroes Brasil (13), the first Heroes blog opens.

June 13, 2006

40. HeroesTheSeries Forum (14), the first fan forum opens.

June 14, 2006

41. Ruth Ammon (XII) joins the crew as the Production Designer.

June 17, 2006

42. It is announced that the cast of Heroes would be visiting the Comic-Con at San Diego on July 21 and 22, also showing the pilot episode.

June 18, 2006

43. Heroes' pilot called Genesis will premiere on 25th September 2006. (tv.com)

June 19, 2006

44. Queen TV (15), a blog, publishes with full details, the first synopsis of the first version of the pilot, which is two hours long. You can read it here: Part 1, Part 2. From here we learn that Nathan was first named Harrison, his mother; Alice and Simone; Stella.

June 21, 2006 or before

45. Youtube (16) posts a video clip from the show, showing Claire (Hayden Panettiere) attempting suicide. We see the image from a camcorder that a male teenager is shooting of her. Claire climbs up what looks like a metal bridge and then “accidentally” falls off it from a great distance. The boy runs over but Claire gets up, perfectly fine, says her name (Claire Bennet) to the camera, and informs us that this was “attempt #6¨.

The video later becomes unavailable from youtube due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal.

June 24, 2006

46. The Internet Movie Database, releases the up-to-date cast for Heroes. The extra information follows:

We learn that the characters played by Tawny Cypress, Greg Grunberg and James Kyson Lee will be called; Simone Deveraux, Matt Parkman and Ando Masahashi respectively. The new cast comprises of;
Tohoru Masamune (13) as Boss at Yamagata
Cristine Rose (14) as Alice Petrelli
John Thaddeus (15) as Prison Guard
David Ury (16) as Super
Jaron White (17) as Kissing Guy

June 26, 2006

47. TV without Pıty Forum (17) posts the official press release for the cast of Heroes appearance at the 2006 Comic-Con international:

NBC'S HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED NEW DRAMA SERIES 'HEROES' TO HOLD EXCLUSIVE PILOT SCREENING AND Q&A PANEL WITH CAST AND PRODUCERS AT COMIC-CON WHAT: Comic-Con International 2006 fans will be the first to watch an exclusive 72-minute special cut of NBC'S 'Heroes' pilot episode, created just for the annual event in San Diego. Debuting this fall on Mondays at 9-10 p.m. ET, 'Heroes' chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover that they possess extraordinary abilities. WHO: Following the screening, cast members Ali Larter ('Final Destination'), Greg Grunberg ('Alias'), Milo Ventimiglia ('Gilmore Girls'), Hayden Panettiere ('Ice Princess'), Sendhil Ramamurthy ('Blind Guy Driving'), and Masi Oka ('Scrubs'); creator/executive producer Tim Kring; executive producer Dennis Hammer; co-executive producer/comic book writer Jeph Loeb ('Lost,' 'Superman for All Seasons') and legendary comic book artist Tim Sale ('Batman: The Long Halloween') will participate in a Q&A session. Limited edition Heroes comic books, created by Tim Sale, will be distributed at the screening to fans who receive a special pin at the 'Heroes' booth. In addition, 'Heroes' will have a booth set up on the convention center floor during the entire run of Comic-Con International 2006. At this booth, cheerleaders will be handing out exclusive 'Heroes' collector pins and other limited edition items. WHEN: Friday, July 21, 2006 at 12:30 ' 2:00 p.m. (Screening/Q&A) WHERE: Comic-Con International 2006 ' San Diego Convention Center 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101 &mddot; Screening/Q&A will take place in Room 6CDEF &mddot; Booth activities will take place in Booth 3912 SYNOPSIS: From NBC Universal Television Studio comes the epic saga 'Heroes,' which chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. As a total eclipse casts it shadow across the globe, we follow a genetics professor (Sendhil Ramamurthy) in India whose father's disappearance leads him to uncover a secret theory - there are people with super powers living among us. A young dreamer (Milo Ventimiglia) tries to convince his politician brother (Adrian Pasdar) that he can fly. A high school cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere) learns that she is totally indestructible. A Las Vegas stripper (Ali Larter), trying to make ends meet to support her young son (Noah Gray-Cabey), uncovers that her mirror image has a secret. A prison inmate (Leonard Roberts) mysteriously finds himself waking up outside of his cell. A gifted artist (Santiago Cabrera), whose drug addiction is destroying his life and the relationship with his girlfriend (Tawny Cypress), can paint the future. A down-on-his-luck beat cop (Greg Grunberg) can hear peoples' thoughts, including the secrets of a captured terrorist. In Japan, a young man (Masi Oka) develops a way to stop time through sheer will power. Their ultimate destiny is nothing less than saving the world.

June 27, 2006

48. GargylovesWolfy, a HeroesTheSeries Forum member, who has seen the pilot, posts a review -- one containing a lot of spoilers -- at the forum. You can read it here. She provides us almost with the entire synopsis of the pilot. (We learn later that it's actually the unaired episode.)

49. NBC.com releases a video of 2 minutes Behind the Scenes.

June 30, 2006

50. Spoiler pictures of Claire from pilot, are released to the HeroesTheSeries Forum.

Overview II

Heroes Creation

People or Companies

1. Tim Kring
2. NBC
3. The Crew
4. The Cast
5. NBC Universal Media Studios
6. Tailwind Productions

Official Media

1. NBC.com
2. Tim Sale's website

Unofficial Media

1. HeroesTheSeries
2. Heroes Brasil
3. HeroesTheSeries Forum

Unrelated Media

1. tv.com
2. the Futon Critic
3. Wikipedia
4. Queen TV
5. Youtube
6. TV without Pity Forum

The Crew

1. Tim Kring, the Creator, the Writer and an Executive Producer
2. Dennis Hammer, an Executive Producer
3. Jeph Loeb, the Co-executive Producer
4. Tim Sale, the Artistic Consultant
5. David Semel, the Director and an Executive Producer
6. Skip Beaudine, a Producer.
7. Lori Motyer, the Co-producer.
8. Burk Sauls, the Colourist
9. Dave Stewart, the Colourist
10. Wendy Melvoin, a Music Composer
11. Lisa Coleman, a Music Composer
12. Ruth Ammon, the Production Designer

The Cast

1. Santiago Cabrera as Isaac Mendez
2. Tawny Cypress as Simone Deveraux
3. Noah Gray-Cabey as Micah Sanders
4. Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman
5. Ali Larter as Niki Sanders
6. Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura
7. Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennet
8. Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli
9. Sendhil Ramamurthy as Mohinder Suresh
10. Leonard Roberts as D. L. Hawkins
11. Milo Ventimiglia as Peter Petrelli

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1. James Kyson Lee as Ando Masahashi
2. Tohoru Masamune as Boss at Yamagata
3. Christine Rose as Alice Petrelli
4. John Taddeus as Prison guard
5. David Ury as Super
6. Jaron White as Kissing guy

July 2006

July 1, 2006

51. Youtube, with the proper permission of NBC, starts publishing 20 second introduction videos of main characters.

July 5, 2006

52. Different US TV channels, start reporting about the upcoming show, in their news.

July 9, 2006

53. Syfy Portal (18), posts that Heroes would have a gay character.

In the pilot for “Heroes,” a popular high school cheerleader confides in a male friend about her superhero-like ability. While it’s not spelled out in so many words, the male character is gay.

In an interview, Kring says:

“I am intrigued by a gay character front and center, and we are openly discussing it in the studio and in the writers’ room now. It doesn’t scare me at all (despite his run-in with a network executive), and it’s always been a battle with networks on that sort of thing. there’s a subversiveness that you’re forced to think about these things with. You try to come in through a side door.”

July 18, 2006

54. Another review of the pilot is released. Here it says it is 55 minutes.

55. Vfx World (19), publishes the following:

At the 2006 Comic-Con, the pilot episode shown will be an “exclusive 72-minute special cut “. Following the screening of the pilot, the cast and crew will be attending a Q&A with the audience, and then everyone there will get another special treat: Limited Edition “Heroes” comic books drawn by artist Tim Sale! The screening and Q&A will take place in Room 6CDEF at the Comic Con.

56. The first official/unofficial fan site opens: 9thWonders.com (20).