Heroes Forever: The New Beginning (film)

Heroes Forever: The New Beginning is an upcoming superhero film based on the novel, Heroes Forever: The New Beginning by Rita Christensen. A sequel spin-off of the Jane Hoop Elementary film series, which is the first installment of a trilogy, the film stars Anthony Keyvan, Rowan Blanchard, Mika Abdalla, Jaden Harmon, Chloe Csengery, Noah Ryan Scott, Lisa Black and Greyson Chance and Jeremy Piven. This marks the acting debut of Greyson Chance. It will take place thirteen years after the events from Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 2, the original series final film.

Principal photography began on June 25, 2015 mostly in Cincinnati, Ohio, and concluded on January 16, 2016. The film is schedule to be released on November 11, 2016 in 3D and IMAX 3D. Regular screenings will also be included for the film's release.

The film will be followed by a sequel, Heroes Forever: The New Resolution, scheduled to be released one year later on November 10, 2017. The original cast from the previous film series - Blake Brown, Amy Tammie, Ben Linkin and Barbara Blue - will all return for the sequel reprising their roles as Danny, Rebecca, Alec and Naudia, respectively as well as for the third and final film.

Synopsis
The story will focus on 5 young children Devin, Brooke, Kurtis, Erica and Kyle, all age 11, who happen to be children of the retired original Jane Hoop Elementary heroes, being chosen as the new members of Jane Hoop Elementary as new evil has arrived. It is revealed that a man name Joseph White (Jeremy Piven), who happens to be a brother of late Catwoman, is seeking revenge to kill the new members as revenge for his sister. He is known to be dressed in his villain suite as Wolfman.

Cast

 * Anthony Keyvan as Devin Gorden, Amanda's brother (son of Danny and Rebecca) being chosen as a superhero. His significant color is Red, who is Danny's replacement.
 * Rowan Blanchard as Brooke Gorden, Devin's sister (daughter of Danny and Rebecca) being chosen as a superhero. Her significant color is Pink, who is Rebecca's replacement.
 * Marcus Scribner as Kurtis Gutzwiller, Erica's brother (son of Alec and Naudia) being chosen as a superhero. His significant color is Blue, who is Alec's replacement.
 * Mika Abdalla as Erica Gutzwiller, Kurtis's sister (daughter of Alec and Naudia) being chosen as a superhero. Her significant color is Yellow, who is Cory's replacement.
 * Noah Ryan Scott as Kyle Berning, Kayla's brother (son of Cory and Stephanie), Devin and Kurtis' best friend being chosen as a superhero. His significant color is Black, who is Jaquille's replacement.
 * Chloe Csengery as Kayla Berning, Kyle's sister (daughter of Cory and Stephanie), Amanda and Erica's best friend chosen as assistant for the heroes. She is chosen as the new mentor of the heroes, who happens to be replacement of Naudia.
 * Lisa Black as Alice Kingston, Hunter's wife and now assistant of Jane Hoop Elementary, after Mrs. Bella Watson's retirement.
 * Greyson Chance as Hunter Suggs, Mayor of Cincinnati and now owner of the superheroes Jane Hoop Elementary, after Mayor James Watson's retirement.
 * Jeremy Piven as Joseph White / Wolfman, Catwoman's brother who seeks on revenge on destroying the original heroes' children. He is happen to be mentally ill, and is in prison for quite some time for murder.
 * Heather Graham as Chloe White / Miss Mysterious, wife of Joseph. She supports him on wanting to destroy the original heroes, who will be absent for the film, on killing her husband's sister Catwoman.
 * Chris O'Donnell as Mark O'Neil / Spyman, Joseph's best friend, who supports him on wanting revenge on the new heroes' parents, who killed Joseph's sister.

Casting
Lisa Black will reprise her role as Alice Kingston and will appear as the main character for the spin-off as one of the defenders of the base. Andy Watson confirmed not returning as the role as Alice's husband Hunter Suggs. This is due that Watson has retired back in 2011 right after Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 2 was released, and decided not to work for another film again and wants to focus on his personal life. Greyson Chance will make his acting debut as Alice's husband, Hunter Suggs, replacing Watson. It also marks the debut of Greyson's acting career.

Young child actors will be playing leading roles of the original superheroes' own teenage children. Anthony Keyvan will play the role as Devin Gorden, while Rowan Blanchard plays as his sister Brooke Gorden, children of Danny and Rebecca Gorden. Mika Abdalla and Marcus Scribner will both play as the siblings Erica and Kurtis Gutzwiller, respectively, children of Alec and Naudia Gutzwiller. Chloe Csengery and Noah Ryan Scott will both play as Kayla and Kyle, respectively, children of Cory and Stephanie Berning.

A villain was confirmed to be Dr. Catwoman's lost brother Joseph White. Christen admits that her brother was never heard or revealed from the Jane Hoop Elementary series, but admits that he will be coming onto the original heroes for revenge of his sister's death, which he seems very supportive of his sister. Joseph will be played by Jeremy Piven.

Hilary Swank is cast to play as the wife of Joseph's character. As she is originally going to play the role, but did no confirm it. However, Heather Graham replaced Swank as the role for the film as Piven's character's wife.

Previously Blanchard and Piven worked together before in the 2011 film, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World.

Development
A spin-off series was confirmed secrectly by Christensen on June 2014 to be in the works. She admits that the series will be based on her own spin-off book, Heroes Forever: The New Beginning. It was confirmed that the spin-off will be a trilogy. Film distributor Paramount Pictures dated the first film to be released on November 11, 2016. The second film, entitled Heroes Forever: The Next Chapter, has confirmed a November 10, 2017 release date, and third Heroes Forever: The Finale for November 9, 2018. The series will be more of a sequel/spin-off series from the Jane Hoop Elementary film series.

The franchise will be based on the series spin-off, Jane Hoop Elementary: The New Heroes taking place about ten years after the events from Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 2, focusing on teenagers, who happen to be children of the original superheroes before they were born, defending the world. It was revealed that the enemy will be the brother of late sister Dr. Catwoman, the original heroes' enemy, who is trying to kill the heroes as to take revenge for the heroes who retired by destroying their kids.

Producers of the original film series, Derek Todd and Drake Jones both decided to come back and work on Christensen's project. Jones admits "Rita's plans is completely brilliant". Christen also got involved being producer for the film, making it the debut of working for films. Gary Ross, who directs the last four Hoop films, confirms that he will be directing the film.

Christensen states that the spin off series feels like: "since Jane Hoop Elementary story begins with younger kids first experiencing their first mission together as children, we will see the next new heroes beginning their first experience as teenagers, but felt like that would also have a mini scene where kids were playing around with their super powers as younger children, than get to their first mission as teenagers. This will feel a bit like the previous story of the original heroes [Danny, Rebecca, Alec, Cory and Jaquille], but for the new heroes [Devin, Brooke, Ben, Erica and Kyle], they were teenagers age between 13 to 15 when first being chosen to become superheroes instead of having written them as younger children when they first got chosen despite the original heroes were only young children ages around 5 to 7.

After discovers that the Harry Potter film franchise gets it's spin off franchise, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Lord of the Rings film franchise also got it's spin off franchise, The Hobbit, Christensen feels like "since most popular film series gets a spin off, why 'Jane Hoop Elementary' can also get a spin-off?".

The film's production budget is estimated between a good $150 to 200 million. The official film budget is later at $250 million.

Filming
Filming for Heroes Forever: The New Beginning began secretly on June 25, 2015. Filming will most likely be filmed in Cincinnati, Ohio just like the original film series. However, most of the scenes from the film will also be filmed at the green screen at a local studio located in Cincinnati.

Filming for the film will have most of the scenes for this film taking place in Downtown Cincinnati, and some other scenes also being included in the film is the Cincinnati Museum, and the part where the location of Catwoman's old base, which is since demolished after Cawtoman's defeat, being rebuild for the base for her brother, who is seeking revenge on the heroes by destroying their children, who now gained super abilities.

Filming for the film wrapped on January 16, 2016 back in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Setting
Heroes Forever: The New Beginning will be taking place about ten years after the events from the last scene from Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush - Part 2 where the heroes, now married and retired and now have children, now living a normal life and the world is now a better and safer place than never before.

Like the Jane Hoop Elementary film series, the film will be taking place in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio at the same Jane Hoop Elementary Base. The villains base, known for Catwoman's Base, was destroyed after the death of Catwoman and all of the villains. However, the same location of the base will be rebuild for Catwoman's brother, who is seeking revenge on the original heroes, who killed his sister during a battle.

Alice, who is the original Jane Hoop Elementary supporting character, will be part of the series more extended character, who happens to be replacement for Mrs. Bella Watson as Mayor of the city, wife of deceased president Mayor James Watson. However, her husband Hunter will be taking over as Mayor of the city of Cincinnati, also now known as management of Jane Hoop Elementary, replacing Mrs. Watson who temporarily becomes manager of the heroes and Mayor of Cincinnati.

The original characters; Danny Gorden and his wife Rebecca, Alec Gutzwiller and his wife Naudia, Cory Berning and his wife Stephanie, will all be absent from the first film, but will however appear in the sequels of the planned trilogy, basically supporting their children on protecting the world. It was also unsure if other character Jaquille Short will also appear as well since the story never tell if he was also married and have kids as well.

Release
The New Beginning is scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures theatrically in theaters worldwide on November 11, 2016. It will be released in Real 3D and IMAX 3D. Late night showings will be included before the film's theatrical release on November 10.

Marketing
Paramount Pictures released the first poster for Heroes Forever on November 2015, just showing the film's logo and the release date. On January 4, 2016, the film's first trailer was released.

On January 30, 2016, Paramount Pictures released the second teaser poster for the film, just showing off a hero's and villain's hand while competing against each other. The same posters was also released the same day, but only for the showings for it's IMAX release.

Also the same day, a featurette for the film is shown online showing exclusive behind the scenes from the film. It was rumored that the film's first full length trailer would be released during a commercial break of the Super Bowl 50.

On March 6, Paramount Pictures released the first character poster of the film feature five characters (Devin, Brooke, Kurtis, Erica and Kyle).

Reaction
Before the film's release, Heroes Forever: The New Beginning was already named as one of the most anticipated films of 2016 so far.

Sequels
Christensen planned a trilogy for the series. The second film is scheduled for release on November 10, 2017, one year after the release of the first, followed by the third and final film for November 9, 2018. The original cast members, who played the original Jane Hoop Elementary heroes in the previous series, will all reprise their roles.