Tim Kring and Zachary Quinto Talk Heroes Season 3, Sylar, and Spock
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?Heroes Creator Tim Kring and lead baddie Zachary “Sylar” Quinto played host to a drooling pack of entertainment reporters today, all armed with scintillating questions regarding the return of the beguiled once-wunderkind “Heroes.”
Heroes will return on September 22nd with a three hour spectacular which will include the two hour premiere episode. For Heroes, season three is somewhat of a shot at redemption. Many folks, including Kring himself, were unhappy with the ambling and repetitive nature of Heroes’ follow up season – and it showed in the numbers. Did the god of the Heroes universe and the show’s slimey bad-guy bring any encouragement to the table?
So with one season in the hit column, and one in the miss, Heroes now has to prove it is good enough to have built in Nissan commercials and still be true blue to its fans. Kring was anxious to course correct the show during season two, but the WGA strike ultimately quelled those ambitions. “What people are referring to as season 2 is not season 2 by our design.” Kring told reporters going on to reveal that Heroes: Villains would have been, in some semblance, the second half of season 2.
Not surprisingly, questions for Quinto dominated much of the conference call. Quinto’s nuanced enunciation of Sylar has resulted in one of the greatest villains of television history. Quinto himself expressed a bit of gracious awe over the acceptance of his character by the Sci-Fi/Comic fandom calling us geeks “The most ardent group of fans you could be working for.”
Kring revealed that the plot for Heroes: Villains would encompass 13 episodes. That is, for those who get into the industry side of things, also the exact number of episodes ordered for either new shows or shows that are riding on “the bubble.” Despite that fact, Heroes has indeed been given a full season order of 25 episodes with Kring revealing that the second plotline of season 3 getting 12 episodes. When asked if Heroes was judged too harshly in its second season, Kring met the question head on with a stroke of sarcasm. “It’s hard to be shiny and new all the time.”
Quinto dropped a bombshell concerning whether or not we’d see Sylar’s mild-mannered side, Gabriel Grey. “… at a certain point we will revisit that character, and the shade of that character as you saw him.” Kring added that we’d see a more human side of Sylar in this season. “Zach has really provided us with the ability to explore this character in really, really, really deep ways. I see Sylar as someone who is on a very deep existential quest to find out the meaning of his own existence.”
- from UGO