As previously reported, a new character named Joy will join Heroes next season. She’ll be known as “The Speedster,” likely due to how fast this new villain will run.
Well, that’s nice and all - but the actress that plays her wasn’t fast enough to avoid detection by our staff!
Brea Grant - who portrayed Landry’s girlfriend for a couple of episodes of Friday Night Lights last year - is coming on board to play Joy. Here’s a photo of the young actress:
In previous Heroes spoilers, we posted the fact that a new character named Joy was coming to the show in season three.
Now, Kristin from E! has come out with more information on this Joy:
Look for a new villain named Joy. Her power is superspeed—she’s lightning-fast, like the Flash. Hiro meets her in a museum. He asks her if she has powers and if she is trying to steal some art.
She convinces him she’s on the up-and-up…and then makes off with a bunch of paintings. She’s described as a nymph-like character with the speed of a cheetah on, er, speed.
TV Guide recently chatted with Heroes Executive Producer and Director, Allan Arkush. The man behind the scenes for the show talked about the upcoming third season, set to premiere on September 15.
Villains will take center stage in the upcoming chapter, aptly titled “Villains.”
“It will be really clear who these villains are,” said Arkush. “These are not necessarily characters you’ve met already. Obviously, there’s going to be a lot of Sylar.”
Will there be a mix of heroes and villains, though?
“One of the things that strikes me as so interesting about the [episode "Company Man"] was when H.R.G. says, ‘I’m very comfortable in the morally grey area,’” says Arkush. “Think about that. Just like when Nathan and Linderman were going to destroy New York for reasons they thought were correct. And who on the show seems to be able to make very hard decisions and has grown as a character? One of those people is Angela (Petrelli).”
Overall, Arkush promises, “one of the things that we’re going to explore is the very nature of these powers — where they come from, who has them, what the different aspects are of how they each got their powers and how it affects them.
That’s going to be a major storyline this year — the actual genetic essence of the power.”
As previously announced, the third season of Heroes will debut on September 15 with a two-hour premiere.
Here are the titles for the season’s first four episodes:
Any thoughts on these titles or what they might mean?
Here are a couple brief Heres spoilers for season three: Look for a pair of new characters to join the series.
Remember: the third season premieres on September 15 with a three-hour special!
The third season of Heroes will premiere on September 15. But that isn’t the only piece of major news recently released by NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman.
“We consciously chose to rest [Heroes] this spring so that [creator] Tim Kring and his team could get ahead of the creative and build up to a massive event–a three-hour Heroes night,” Silverman said during the network’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on April 2.
“On Monday, Sept. 15, we’ll kick off with a Heroes clip show to try to bring back the audience and [then air] a massive two-hour Heroes film.”
How excited are we for this?!?
Our good friend at TV Guide, Michael Ausiello, recently posted a mysterious response to a question about Heroes Season Three.
Someone may be moving in on Mohinder’s narrator turf. Tim Kring is said to be seeking an Australian Aboriginal actor in his fifties to appear in multiple episodes as a storyteller with great wisdom and a soft, soothing voice.
Do you think something happens to Mohinder? Would you like to see a different narrator for a bit? Write in. Let us know.
Not that anyone believed Adam Monroe was actually down for the permanent count when Hiro buried him alive to end season two, but David Anders recently confirmed that he’s likely to play a key role in Heroes Season Three.
“I believe so, yeah. I hope so. I know I’m going to be in one of the first six [episodes] so,” Anders told SyFy Portal’s Alan Stanley Blair at this weekend’s Eclipse event in the United Kingdom. “But after that, it’s called “Villains,” and I am an uber-villain.”
In the third volume of the series, the villains of the show will get a chance to show just how evil they can be. Among them are Adam, Angela Petrelli (Christine Rose) and 12 new characters still to be revealed. Then there’s the true, major villain of the show, of course.
“Sylar is hard to beat. Sylar’s eyebrows alone…” Anders said, adding another comment about his character. “Adam is just misunderstood. ‘When God wasn’t happy with what he’d created he made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights. He just washed it all away.’ I love my lines.”
Japanese actress Eriko Tamura (pictured) - who played the 16th-century love interest of Hiro at the outset of Heroes last season - has admitted that her character will play a role in season three.
Please, television gods, tell us this doesn’t mean Hiro goes back to feudal Japan again.
Tamura said that her character, Taeko, was supposed to be transported to the present in episodes that were scripted, but not finished before the writers’ strike commenced last fall.
“I am going to be in the present, yes,” Tamura assured viewers in an interview. “I actually had a few episodes of the script then. Suddenly, the strike happened, so we had to stop the shooting.”
Do you wanna see Hiro continue his love story in the present? Let us know.
As previously reported, the status of Kristen Bell is not 100% certain for season three. Technically the actress is yet to sign a new contract to appear on the show again.
In a recent interview with TV Guide, though, Bell didn’t sound too worried about it:
“I’ve had an unbelievable experience thus far and they seem to like me and want to keep me onboard, so we’re going to keep that ball rolling for as long as we can.”
While the actress is busy shooting and promoting Forgetting Sarah Marshall over the next few months, she says that by the time she gets back “[Heroes] will be getting things together to start shooting. So I’ll be free.”
She also teases that Elle “is so evil and so broken, yet she actually redeems herself over the next couple of episodes.”
We can’t wait.
As for what will goes down in season three, here are a few more Heroes spoilers we’ve been hearing:
