Should you be the individual who was holding out for a Heroes feature film to tie up all those meddling loose ends and finish the forlorn series on a high, news has reached us from EW that you shouldn’t hold your breath.
A ‘key source’ has told the magazine that plans to wrap up the cancelled drama have been scrapped. This appears to be in spite of creator Tim Kring’s hopes of providing delayed closure for fans.
“No decision has been made,” Kring explained to EW earlier this year.
But the Heroes brand is an extremely broad premise. It was a premise about ordinary people, an undisclosed number of people all over the world, who were waking up to these extraordinary abilities. Any number of stories could happen around that. We never posited a single ending or a single premise.
It wasn’t about getting off of an island or stopping something from happening. We told stories in volumes that had a beginning, a middle, and an end. Those volumes could go on and on and on with many different characters. As a result, that Heroes universe is something that can be tapped into again in many ways.
After a critically acclaimed first season, the series began to waver during the its second season (or ‘volume’) as it began to spread itself thin across an increasingly unwieldy array of characters.
NBC’s decision is unlikely to warrant much of an outcry. By the time the show’s fourth season aired, ratings in the U.S. had plummeted to an average of 6.54 million viewers from 13.86 viewers during season 1.
