Heroes (film series)

Heroes are the romantic superhero films from Warner Bros. based onto the four Heroes novels written by Joanne White. The film will star Emma Roberts, Zac Efron and David Henrie as the main characters.

Development
Walt Disney Pictures is developing the film adaptation for Heroes: A New Beginning, but cancels it because of the book too scary for the studio. Instead, Warner Bros. is beginning to devloping to make the film franchise of the book franchise. Therehfore, Disney than plans for making a A BFF With Ghost Imagination franchise.

A New Beginning will be directed by David Slade, who previously done Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The film's production budget is an estimated $100 million. Warner Bros. also puts three films The New Heroes, The Ultimate Power and The Final Battle in works. These are yet to begin the same production for the first film.

Joanne White states: "the movie must be at least for all boys and girls. I want this for everyone that they really enjoy. Boys like violence, and Girls like romances. Boys like action, and hopefully Girls will like some catfight." White said that the film is mixed between Batman and Twilight. Warner Bros. expected this movie and the other three future films to be a box office hit, and is making sure that this movie will be "a little romantic and alot action packed".

David Slade will be directing the first installment, and might be returning for the next three films. He also said that the film will have a coule of stunts. During casting, Zac Efron gets a call that he wants to do the film franchise to see if he is still popular outside of his High School Musical era.

Casting
Emily Osment was originally auditon to set to play as Amanda Humphrey for a planned Heroes film franchise. But within does not decided to join another franchise where she's busy with another project, and than she might join another frnachise. Instead, Emma Roberts decided to join this Heroes franchise where she is set to play as Amanda Humphrey replacing Osment. About 40 actresses arer auditioning to play the role of Amanda including Dakota Fanning, Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Debby Ryan, Victoria Justice, Alyson Stoner and Amy Tammie. On April 2010, it was announced that the role goes to Roberts.

Zac Efron will play as Mark Brown. David Henrie will play as Joe Osment. Also Alyson Stoner, originally set to play as Maria Gray, but her Camp Rock co-star Meghan Jette Martin has already taken her role as Maria. Also,Taylor Dooley as Tina Gordon and Luis Armand Garcia as Orlando Adams.

Ryan Sheckler originally as Greg Brown, and Aaron Carter originally as Kyle Brown, Sean Faris and Bobby Edner took over the boys to play as Greg Brown and Kyle Brown.

Emma Stone as Lilly Brown and Brooke Hogan as Nathalie Brown. Kristin Davis and Dean Cain will play as Amanda Humphrey's parents Lisa Humphrey and Jonathan Watson. Chad Michael Murray, Avril Lavigne and Usher will play as the three supervillains Michael Williams, Stephanie McDonald and Tim Arnold. Also, casting was confirmed and the sequel is already greenlighted before production has began.

David Henrie will be reprising his role as Joe Osment and will be playing him in a larger role.

New characters for the Officers was announced. Chace Crawford as Jonathan, Jared Padalecki as Tom, Austin Butler as Ben, Miley Cyrus as Amy, and Alex Pettyfer for the film adaptation of The New Heroes, the second installment of the book franchise.

Critical reaction

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All of the films were a financial success, marking them as a major Hollowood tent-poles akin to Harry Potter, James Bond, Wars, Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean''. Fans are divided throughout the release of each films, about it's appperances and changes as well as new comers and some new writers. Fans are also divided up with their reaction of the same film director James Calvin for all of them. Author Rita Christensen states that The Final Rush is her favorite book so far.

Box Office
As of January 2011, the films became the highest film series of all-time grossing more than $6.7 billion worldwide. However, it was the highest-grossing film series of all-time making in $2.070 billion domestically. The highest-grossing film domestically in the franchise is Jane Hoop Elementary: The First, and highest-grossing film worldwide is Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush: Part 1.