Ray Park Cast As Villain In ‘Heroes’ For Fourth Season

The man who brought Darth Maul to life in “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” has signed on as a new guest villain for the fifth volume/fourth season of “Heroes.”

Actor Ray Park is joining the cast for a multiple episode arc, according to EW’s Michael Ausiello. Details on Park’s character are being kept under wraps at the moment, but Ausiello reports that the character will tie-in to the upcoming season’s “Carnivale”-esque storyline.

In additional casting news, actress Deanne Bray is close to signing on for a multiple episode guest role as well. Ausiello reports that Bray would play a deaf love interest for one of the main cast.

“Heroes” begins production on season four later this month and will return to NBC this fall.

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Heroes to Return for Fourth Season

Despite a ratings decline this season, NBC plans to bring back "Heroes" for a fourth season, said entertainment president Angela Bromstad. The Hollywood Reporter says the network plans to order 18-20 episodes of the show for next season. That’s fewer hours than "Heroes" first or current third season (which each had orders of at least 23 episodes), with season two having been cut short due to the writers strike.

For all its headline-making audience erosion, "Heroes" is still tied with NBC’s "The Office" as the network’s top-rated series among adults 18-49 this season. "Heroes" also still performs well internationally.

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‘Heroes’ Update: John Glover Added to Cast

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that NBC has cast John Glover (Lex Luthor’s dad on “Smallville”) to play Sylar’s father in “Heroes.”

“When Sylar meets his father, he’s going to see a path ahead of him that he doesn’t want to take,” says a source. “He has a lot more in common with his father than he realized.”

The Tony award winner will turn up towards the end of “Heroes’” forthcoming “Fugitives” chapter.

Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly also got to talk to Bryan Fuller (“Pushing Daisies”), who’s rejoining the show as a consultant. Here’s a bit on “Fugitives,” which kicks-off on February 2:

It really is a fresh start. All of the characters are back in their real lives. You see Peter as a paramedic. Claire is looking for colleges. We get away from the world of formulas and quasi-magic.

Yes. Episodes 14, 15 and 16 are amazing. The whole “Fugitives” arc starts out very strongly, and then it gets a little dense in the middle in terms of the mythology. So I came in right at the point where everybody was realizing, “Oh, we’re getting too dense here and we need to put faces on stories because there is no face to a formula; there is no face to saving the world.” So it’s turning this big ship back into a character stream, and everyone on the writing staff shares that desire. We need to get back into a character place, because that’s where this story started: Very clean, superhero metaphors to everyday life. That’s the path that we’re taking. But it is a big ship so it’s going to take a little while to turn it.

You can read the full interview here!

Source: SuperHeroHype.com