No Heroics: Drew Pearce interview

There is an interview on Chinashopmag.com with No Heroics creator Drew Pearce. He discusses the US pilot that Tom did, but has no real good news...but some hope. Read the interview on the website.

What was your favorite part of the US pilot vs. the UK original?

DP: Well, for those who don’t know, after finishing the first series in the UK I came over to America to make a “sister’ version of the show for ABC and Disney. They didn’t pick it up, but I had a blast making it. The favorite parts are too many to mention, but having 200 extras rather than 4 was nice, as was having the budget to shut down entire streets in Vancouver, do stunts, actually have that second cup of tea etc. But probably, overall, it was getting to create a parallel bar in New York that’s part of the same pub “chain” as the Fortress in London. And who knows - maybe we’ll get that Lower East Side version of the bar might be up and running again some time soon…

Where can we get a copy of the US pilot?

DP: Nowhere. It’s disappeared. It’s not even on the internet. And anyone seen with it is instantly dispatched by Disney-trained snipers in Mickey Mouse masks.

You have expressed interest in a US DVD release for the 1st season of the UK show. What has been your biggest hurdle to this desire? What “special feature” would you love to include on the DVD?

Well, for starters, though there’s a bunch of extra material on the Region 2 British DVD we never had the money to do any commentary tracks. So I’d love to do that. And there are some cool people, particularly in America, who are fans of the show, so I’d kind of love them to maybe join in too. I always wanted to put the original pilot and the re-shot ep one together to do a contrast-y thing. Plus, if we could ever make it past those Disney snipers, we might even get the chance to pop the ABC pilot on there somewhere too.