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Las Vegas creator, writer and producer Gary Scott Thompson discusses the connection the NBC series had with the super-powered Heroes.
Gary Scott Thompson, creator, writer and producer of the NBC action comedy-drama Las Vegas, recalled its one-degree-of-separation from another of the network’s shows, Heroes, about the adventures of regular people who discover they have superpowers.
An early episode of Heroes took place in a casino, which proved to be the fictional Montecito, the main location from Las Vegas. Thompson told Movieweb it was a matter of efficiency. For Las Vegas, Thompson said, “We built such an incredible set. At the time the biggest set that had ever been made. It was on three sound stages that we knocked the walls out of to make the casino and we had others for the surveillance room, the hotel rooms, the kitchen, the club, and all these other places. We took over an entire lot.”
The casino set was handy because there were several challenges in shooting on location. “We shot the pilot in Vegas and in addition, we shot yearly in Vegas so NBC knew how hard it was to film there,” Thompson said. “You can’t control the elements like the sounds, the drunks, the girls taking their tops off and flashing you. You can’t control the people that lay down in the valet and demand they be in ‘their movie.’ If a whale (high roller) shows up and wants something, you could get booted for them. The original plan was to shoot in Vegas and that was just difficult and it was hard on the crew.”
Thompson continued, “So because of that, when Heroes wanted to film an episode with a casino, they would tell them, ‘Well, we already have one,’ and I would get the call, so, yeah, I was consulted to a certain extent. There were some rules like they couldn’t blow it up, or really change anything, but I couldn’t control their storylines. I don’t think they looked for crossovers, although we did crossovers with Crossing Jordan, but guess you can say they live in the same universe.”
Starring James Caan, Josh Duhamel, James Leisure and Nikki Cox, Las Vegas aired from 2003 to 2008. Heroes, which starred Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Kristen Bell, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Roberts and Masi Oka, aired from 2006 to 2010.
Source: Movieweb
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