With the current fad of recycling 80’s movie favourites for a new audience still in vogue, here’s a product from that era which has been given the small screen treatment instead.
MTV has released the first trailer (via SlashFilm) for a new television series based on the Michael J. Fox film Teen Wolf. In the original, the Back to the Future star played a shy high school student whose transformation into a werewolf also transformed his social standing and popularity amongst his peers. The looks like the makers of the TV series haven’t strayed too far from the original concept, judging by the press release (below).
“Teen Wolf,” stars Tyler Posey (“Maid in Manhattan,” “Brothers and Sisters”), as the newly bitten werewolf, ‘Scott McCall,’ Dylan O’Brien as his best friend ‘Stiles,’ Crystal Reed as the mysterious new girl in town, ‘Allison,’ and Tyler Hoechlin (“Road to Perdition,” “7th Heaven”) as the older and possibly quite dangerous werewolf, ‘Derek Hale.’ Always an outsider and often unnoticed, Scott McCall yearns to be recognized in some small way that takes him out of his typical state of high school anonymity. When his best friend, Stiles, convinces him to go into the woods one night to join a police search for a dead body, Scott encounters a creature in the darkness. Narrowly escaping an attack with a vicious bite in his side, the next day brings strange surprises for Scott at school and his life will never be the same.
If the trailer (embedded below) is anything to go by, MTV appear to have given the material a serious edge, which resembles something along the lines of The Vampire Diaries.
It looks like we won’t be seeing a recreation of the iconic basketball sequence from the film (with the Karate Kid-esque motivational ballad Win in the End on the soundtrack), here in the TV show. Shame.
