New Heroes series will not save the cheerleader

Ever since it was announced that Heroes was coming back (here) for Heroes Reborn we’ve been wondering who would return, if anyone, from the original series… and now we may have a slightly better idea.

The main character of the original series was cheerleader Claire Bennet, played by the lovely Hayden Panettiere (above), but it seems she’s in the dark as much as the rest of us according to Cosmopolitan: “Well, it was a shock to me. In fact, I believe I became privy to that through my cousin. She sent me a text message and told me about it, and, I mean, we had nothing, nothing to do with it; it will definitely be interesting to see how they reinvent that.

I think it’s a whole new set of characters. Who knows? It’s a little bit of an interesting feeling because you go, ‘That was our show, our home, our family,’ something that we had a major part in creating as well, and, I mean, I hope that they don’t have somebody else playing our characters, that would be a little dagger in the heart. But, you never know. I wish them success in it, for sure.”

So, no save the cheerleader, save the world this time out?

Heroes Reborn will be a 13 episode series with an online prequel airing before the series hits tv screens later this year.

The thirteen new episodes are said to follow a stand-alone story arc with a prequel web series set to debut beforehand.