MTV will air the TEEN WOLF television series remake
MTV will air the TEEN WOLF television series remake
May 21
Remakes make money, it’s just a fact. That’s why Hollywood keeps dusting off rights to old properties that have proven successful in the past and turning them into films. For whatever reason, our interest is perked enough to pop along to the cinema and see just how badly they fucked things up– resulting in a profit and ultimately a general consensus that remakes are a good thing– they are not… but they do make money.
MTV have decided to pick-up a television remake of the 80s cult classic high school film Teen Wolf, starring eighteen year old Tyler Posey from such television moulds as Smallville and Lincoln Heights. If you’re wondering, like me, if the show’s creators can revive all that campy goodness in a new wave retro kind of way, you can forget it. According to MTV high-ups, the new Teen Wolf will be nothing like the original film or cartoon 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.
Slashfilm also reminds us that plot summaries for the upcoming pilot episode include descriptions like “teen gets superpowers, including the ability to woo girls, after a wolf attack.”
My head hurts. The premise of Teen Wolf has always been decent. No matter how campy the product was, the substance behind the character has always had a charm that helped it resonate (and I’m being serious). So, with that idea in-tact, and the prospect of it being a dramatic thriller with elements of An American Werewolf in London, I might have actually gotten excited about this TV series at one point. I just can’t seem to shake the irritating fact that they’re calling it Teen Wolf and ripping off an iconic 80s film.
It might not be all doom and gloom. I mean, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a cult(ish) film from the early 90s that actually turned into a decent television series for a while there. Not that I watched it, but still, it gained a huge following. Lord knows this has every chance to be a booming success, what with the Twilight films and television shows like The Vampire Diaries, True Blood and Supernatural all finding an audience; there seems to be a new hunger for supernatural programming.
I just know I’m going to run into a teenager’s online comment saying how much they love that Teen Wolf show and hoping they make it into a movie one day…
Tyler Posey will play Scott McCall in the new Teen Wolf, reprising the famous role first played by Michael J. Fox in 1985.
source: slashfilm
