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Entertainment Weekly columnist Michael Ausiello reports that Ray Park (Star Wars' Darth Maul) is in talks to join the cast of NBC's Heroes for a sizable arc; Deanne Bray (The L Word) is also nearing a deal to come on board for multiple episodes. Both join the previously reported Robert "T-Bag" Knepper.
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SlashFilm reports that James Cameron's 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar will have a running time of "definitely over two and a half hours," while rumor has it that it might be over 3 hours long.
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Dark Horizons, meanwhile, reports that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince clocks in at a final runtime of 153 minutes.
By kev74 at 12:56 PM ON 06/05/09
Nice to see some fresh blood coming to Heroes.
By j-dub at 1:49 PM ON 06/05/09
Now there will be a man on Heroes that can hack people to death with his superior use of a double bladed lightsaber.
By xbagger at 3:22 PM ON 06/05/09
And toss them around with his tongue like when he played Toad in XMen.
By Kerrith at 3:47 PM ON 06/05/09
Heroes just got the cast size back down to a manageable level and now they are expanding it again?
I can see adding a new villain or two but please don't start expanding the hero pool again.
By Jaste at 4:34 PM ON 06/05/09
let me guess... British actor plays one of the bad guys?
By natre9111 at 5:26 PM ON 06/05/09
A english bad guy hu??
Why not just have done with it and call your awful directionless show X-Men and have done with it!
By GrumpyOldMan at 5:23 AM ON 06/06/09
An English bad guy on Heroes would be sooo awesome!!! He could be like immortal or something, but he's so old that he met Hiro in the past! Oh wait, better idea, he's got this uber healing power and lots of cash! Next season, Claire goes feral and disappears into the Canadian wilderness!
I've got another great idea, let's buy a new hero show, but this one is all original: The main character is a street-level public servant, like a cop or an emt or something, who discovers he has telepathy!
*sigh*
By miles316 at 8:53 AM ON 06/06/09
I wonder if Parks character and Hiro will have a sword fight that would be cool.
Hiro really hasn't had any swords fights except a couple bouts with sylir which were week.
By DJ Jarak at 10:47 PM ON 06/06/09
Ray Park in Heroes?! Sweet! I wonder if they'll even let him use his voice? It seems that he either plays a mute or has someone else do his voice for him.
By suprememango at 1:46 PM ON 06/08/09
Well DJ he had a line as Toad and I believe a couple as Maul when he was chatting with Sidious, though he will be mute again as Snake Eyes in the upcoming G.I. Joe. I believe they will bring him in as a villain and hopefully he will show off his martial arts skills. And yes, time for Hiro to get a new sword and start slashing up stuff!
By KeepDChange at 3:18 PM ON 06/09/09
Ray Park can definitely serve a dual purpose; star in character and be a fighting/swordsman consultant (to beef up Hiro's skills- DEFINITELY).
This should get interesting....
By j-dub at 2:02 PM ON 06/10/09
@ suprememango
I've heard that his lines in Episode I were voice overs, So technically, if this is true, he hasn't used his voice for lines.
By twocents at 4:01 PM ON 08/28/09
Darth Maul's voice in Star Wars Episode I was not Ray Park's. It was a voiceover.
As far as I know, it is Ray Park's voice in X-men. Also, he was in that Ballistic: Eks vs Sever (spelling?) and he has several lines in that movie.
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