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Masi Oka, otherwise known as Hiro Nakamura from Heroes, is co-writing a Fringe-esque pilot for Syfy called The Correctors. The premise is complicated, but Oka knows a thing or two about wacky alternate reality travel. More »
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When NBC's Heroes returns later this month, expect the best season since season one, according to stars Masi Oka and Hayden Panettiere. Just don't expect to see too much Ando/Hiro bromance, and not because of Hiro's terminal illness. More »
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A new poster for Heroes season four offers you two reasons to give the show one more chance. Just follow Masi Oka's stare. Yatta! More »
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Masi Oka's character on Heroes has dispensed so much conventional wisdom about heroism, it gives the entire audience nosebleeds. But now Oka is set to show us the true nature of heroism: via a story about massively multiplayer online games. More »
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Oh, the joys of learning that an actor is as awkward and charming as his on-air personality. Masi Oka was a guest on Late Night With Conan O'Brien the other night, and he got to play with his Heroes action figure to the point of destruction. He comes right out and admits that his action figure can't be that action-packed, since his only superpowers involve blinking and zapping through time and/or space. We love you, Masi — why can't you hook up with Daphne instead of Parkman? More »
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Not content with owning last weekend's box office at theaters, the makers of Get Smart want all your DVD dollars as well. That's why July 1st sees the release of Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control, a feature-length DVD spin-off starring Control's top tech guys as they try to save the world so that Steve Carrell's Maxwell Smart can... save the world. Again. We spoke to the stars of the spin-off, Masi Oka and Nate Torrence, about gadgets, franchises and unexpected appearances in other movies. Oh, alright, and we asked a question about Heroes as well. More »
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The first seven minutes of Get Smart are available as a free iTunes download, and they include some new footage of Heroes' Masi Oka and Nate Torrance as the two techies, Bruce and Lloyd. Soon, you'll also be able to download an exclusive clip from the direct-to-DVD spin-off starring Oka and Torrance, Bruce And Lloyd Out Of Control. The spin-off, about the techies getting into crazy scrapes, comes out July 1, to coincide with Get Smart's theatrical release. Will there be nerdy hijinks? We can hardly wait to find out. [iTunes and Heroes The Series] More »
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Viral online marketing is so pre-Cloverfield, you may be thinking to yourself, but don't tell that to Joe Tolerico. He's the guy in charge of all the online shenanigans supporting NBC's Heroes, which now goes by the name of Heroes: Evolution. Over at the Heroes Wiki, Tolerico explains what won't be spinning out of the show that made it okay to steal ideas from twenty-year-old comic books. More »
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It's not quite Monday without a new episode of Heroes, so we're bringing you the next best possible thing: an interview with creators Tim Kring and Jeph Loeb and a slew of photos of the cast. Check everything out after the jump — it's something to do while you wait impatiently with the rest of us for the writers strike to end sometime before reality TV eats our brains faster than Sylar ever could. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=334809&view=rss&microfeed=true One of the more uneven subplots in the second season of NBC's mutant soap Heroes involves time-master Hiro traveling back to feudal Japan, tangling with a white samurai, and falling in love with a lady. To keep the space-time continuum intact, Hiro has to bring the white samurai and the lady together. So he's kept his cross-temporal lust under wraps. But last night, the floodgates opened. More »
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