Emma
11-13-2006, 05:46 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/heroes/24.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" border="0" alt="Heroes, NBC"> HEROES come in all shapes and sizes. Just ask show creator Tim Kring; his heroes come from every walk of life imaginable. The new show on NBC, which is rapidly becoming a runaway hit this season was just recently picked up for a full-season run and is enjoying tremendous ratings and response from the viewing public. Saving the cheerleader is tantamount to saving the world, but iF MAGAZINE managed to pry Kring away from his freshly created hyper-reality world to chat with us about its genesis and creative forces involved behind the super-series.
iF MAGAZINE: You were not a comic book fan per say so where did HEROES come from?
TIM KRING: I’m aware enough about the comic book world to be interested in it; I, myself, just didn’t have a background in it. But again, I watched a couple of movies last year that influenced me, one of them being THE INCREDIBLES, I had this sort of epiphany of the idea of very ordinary people waking up and discovering they have these extraordinary abilities. When you think about where an idea comes from you can’t always trace it back to a single moment; it’s sometimes an amorphous moment that is floating around in your head for a period of time.
iF: There are no costumes and spandex, the show is grounded in reality … how did you decide how many characters you wanted to work with?
KRING: It turned out that it was as many as I could figure out to squeeze into one hour. There are several that I would still like to create but I ran out of room. I am reserving the right to have that happen. I’m most interested in the origins stories; the inception of the powers and dealing with the initial blush of what do I do and how do I live me life. As soon as these characters start settling into who they are and knowing how to deal with these abilities, I think the audience has to be reminded of that origin story again, which means a new character will fold in at that time.
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iF MAGAZINE: You were not a comic book fan per say so where did HEROES come from?
TIM KRING: I’m aware enough about the comic book world to be interested in it; I, myself, just didn’t have a background in it. But again, I watched a couple of movies last year that influenced me, one of them being THE INCREDIBLES, I had this sort of epiphany of the idea of very ordinary people waking up and discovering they have these extraordinary abilities. When you think about where an idea comes from you can’t always trace it back to a single moment; it’s sometimes an amorphous moment that is floating around in your head for a period of time.
iF: There are no costumes and spandex, the show is grounded in reality … how did you decide how many characters you wanted to work with?
KRING: It turned out that it was as many as I could figure out to squeeze into one hour. There are several that I would still like to create but I ran out of room. I am reserving the right to have that happen. I’m most interested in the origins stories; the inception of the powers and dealing with the initial blush of what do I do and how do I live me life. As soon as these characters start settling into who they are and knowing how to deal with these abilities, I think the audience has to be reminded of that origin story again, which means a new character will fold in at that time.
<a href="http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1757" target="_blank">Click here for more!</a>