User:Janrodrigo/Information Update:June 2006

June 2006

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

June 5, 2006

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

June 7, 2006

• 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

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

June 13, 2006

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

June 14, 2006

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

June 17, 2006

• 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

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

June 19, 2006

• 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

• 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

• 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
  
• Christine 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

• 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

1. 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.)
2. NBC.com releases a video of 2 minutes Behind the Scenes.

June 30, 2006

• 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