MTV remaking Teen Wolf as a series? Hmmm? What to think?

[Metamorpho1977]

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MTV’s Teen Wolf Remake is a TV Series?
Posted on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 by Russ Fischer


When MTV announced plans a couple months ago to remake/reboot the Michael J Foxfilm Teen Wolf, I assumed the intent was to create a feature film. That evidently isn’t the case, as the network has ordered a pilot for a television series. What the hell does MTV plan to do with their high school lycanthropes?

THR reports that execs liked the script that was cobbled together, and ordered the pilot. (Thanks, THR…we guessed as much.) This version will once again be a high school drama that has horror and werewolf lore, and there will be a romantic angle as well. The latter being a given if the network is going to draw out a series.


Liz Gateley, MTV’s senior VP of series development, tries out her comedy act while talking up the series: “It has a fresh take and is very different from the original. It has more of an ‘American Werewolf in London’ feel to it. It’s a dramatic thriller with two best friends in the center who provide a great comedy element: They are two very relatable characters on the outer circles of popular cliques.”

The emphasis there is mine. Why, when talking about your Teen Wolf series, would you push a thin thematic relationship to a totally different film? And why do I feel like she just described a Buffy clone? Not that any of this is a surprise, once you think about MTV making this as a series and not a feature. With a feature remake it’s easy enough to just go back to the basic story, with a few updates. But a series requires a lot more open-ended story work. Oddly enough, if I forget the whole comparison to American Werewolf, I’m more interested in what MTV can do with this as a series than as a feature. By which I mean ‘barely interested, and only in the most passive sense’ rather than not at all.

 

[SuperFerret]

Teen Wolf series =

MTV =

 

[bullets]

Well it sounds interesting but I can't remember MTV producing a good movie.

 

[RetroNaz]

A big win that they are making something that is not a reality show. So that deserves kudos regardless of how crap this may turn out.

It will be interesting to see what direction they take with this...

Big question is: will he be a basketball star!? LOL.

 

[superhero]

I reember they made one wolf comdey i think it was big wolf on campus. it was good. i wonder what the tv show would be about..

 

[Thundarr]

I remember that show. It was a lot of fun.

I remember when I was a kid there was a Teen Wolf Animated Series. They had expanded Teen Wolf's family to include Grandma, Grandpa, and a little sister who's too young to wolf out yet. That was okay, they did some fun episodes.

As for a live action TV series? If well written and properly cast, it could be a really good series. I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you, but it does have potensial.

 

[Mrh7448]

This just sounds like they are trying to jump on the "supernatural" band wagon. Shows like Buffy, True Blood, the upcoming Vampire Diaries etc.

I would gather this is going to change from a comedy film to a dramatic angst ridden teenagers show.

Replace Twilight angst ridden vampires with Werewolves = New TV show.