"The Originals" Season 4 returns to The CW in January 2017. (Photo : Getty Images/ Rick Diamond)
As expected, "The Originals" Season 4 will pick up a couple of years from where the third season left off. With that said, viewers will meet a grown up Hope Mikaelson in the new season.
At the recently held San Diego Comic Con, it was revealed that "The Originals" Season 4 will start with a five-year time jump. Consequently, Klaus and Hayley's daughter Hope, which will be played by Summer Fontana, will be grown up by the time.
Fontana will be the 7-year-old Hope, who's grown up to be inquisitive and curious about the identity of her father. It can be recalled that throughout Hope's growing years, Klaus was trapped and staked in Marcel's garden. She hasn't met him, nor remembers any memory of him. In the teaser trailer released at Comic Con, Hope is asking Hayley, "Mom, are we going to get my dad?"
"She was two years old when we left her ... and she's now a little person," Executive producer Michael Narducci said. "She's got dialogue and hopes and dreams, and she misses her dad and understands her family has suffered a great loss. Hayley's a great mom."
Phoebe Tonkin, who plays Hope's mother Hayley, is excited to "see what kind of personality this little girl has."
"Even though she hasn't been around her dad for the last five years, I think there's a lot of Klaus in her - good or bad - and I'm excited to see that in this little powerful witch," Tonkin told TV Line.
Hope has the blood of an original vampire and a royal werewolf, making her one of the most powerful creature to walk the Earth. She's also identified as a witch-hybrid, having inherited Klaus' witch gene. She's the first hybrid to have the genes of a vampire, werewolf and witch, giving her massive but potential unstable powers. Although she's still a young kid on the show, it is presumed that viewers will get a taste of Hope's abilities in "The Originals" Season 4.
Theory also supposes that Hope might be the one to save Klaus from eternal damnation, as she's the only person left strong enough to defeat an upgraded Marcel.
"The Originals" Season 4 will air on The CW in 2017.
