In a brief interview for Wizard World Heroes creator Tim Kring revealed a few details about the season one finale of the hit show Heroes. In the interview he revealed that the finale will comprise of the final three episodes and that it will bring the whole cast together.
“The whole thing converges in New York, … and they’re all there, and all of them play a role,” Kring said in an interview at Wizard World in Los Angeles on March 17. “Even though some may feel like they’re less significant to the final event, when you analyze it, each one had to play that role in order for the final event to be solved, and so there really was a kind of destiny quality to them coming together and having each one fulfilling [one thing] and one specific role.”
Kring and company is currently putting the final touches to their finale script that is titled ‘How to Stop an Exploding Man’. Production on this episode is slated to commence one week from now and will premier on May 23.
As you’d expect from a show such as Heroes a fair few deaths are likely to happen and principal characters are just as likely to get caught up in the firing line. “The thing is, people knew fairly early on [that they might not make it through the season],” Kring said of the cast members. “Everybody, every actor that we’ve spoken to. I mean, … we’ve spoken about this idea, that on this show the story is king and everybody is in service of that story. It’s not a star vehicle. No, the show does not live or die by any one character. And so every actor should realize that at some point his or her ticket might come up. It’s both sad and exciting at the same time.”
Kring added: “It became very important that if we were going to set up the stakes of a villain and a conspiracy, the stakes would just not be real unless there were some deaths along the way. But the one caveat is, on a show like Heroes, you may not always [stay] dead. And with our ability to go back and forth in time, you may be dead, but you may show up on the show a few more times.”
Inevitable the season finale will also go a long way towards setting up season 2, which has become somewhat of a tradition in genre television of late. “There is a cliffhanger quality to some of the episode, but more in terms of what is the fate of some of our characters, as opposed to what the story is going to be,” he said. “Although we do have a one, I hope, shocking sort of spoiler for what season two is going to be. A premonition of … what we’re calling volume two.”
Heroes airs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT, returns with the last new episodes of the season on April 23. UK fans can currently enjoy Heroes every Monday at 10pm on the UK’s Sci Fi Channel.
