A new trend that many fans and critics are calling out is forcing what obviously would’ve made a creator hour and a half film into an eight-episode mini-series. It stretches already thin ideas into something barely watchable. Thankfully, the creator behind Teen Wolf saw this trend and took it upon himself to make a true event for the fandom.
Teen Wolf: The Movie will arrive on Paramount+ later this month and will continue the MTV series that ran for six seasons and ended in 2017. Show creator Jeff Davis tells SFX Magazine that the movie was initially set to be the seventh season but grew into something more.
“[It’s] a colossal undertaking. The first cut was three hours long. Part of that is you have so many characters to service. By the end of writing the movie, I kind of realized, ‘Oh my god. This is basically season seven all in one movie.’ We packed a lot into this movie,” says Davis. “It was trying to give the fans big moments, tear-jerking moments, and funny moments while giving them throwbacks to what the show was, but also a few new things like Vince Mattis, who plays Eli, Derek Hale’s son.”
The film will take place years after the original story ended, which Davis said gave him “the chance to recalibrate all of these characters,” but the normal life changes “when a terrifying new evil emerges, so Scott McCall and the rest of his pack return to Beacon Hills.”
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Featuring a cast that brings back many of the original stars, including Tyler Posey, Tyler Hoechlin, Holland Roden, Shelley Hennig, Linden Ashby, JR Bourne, Colton Haynes, Melissa Ponzio, Crystal Reed, Vince Mattis, Orny Adams, Seth Gilliam, Ryan Kelley, Dylan Sprayberry, Khylin Rhambo, and Ian Bohen.
In Teen Wolf: The Movie, a full moon rises in Beacon Hills, and with it, a terrifying evil has emerged. The wolves are howling once again, calling for the return of banshees, werecoyotes, hellhounds, kitsunes, and every other shapeshifter in the night. But only a werewolf like Scott McCall, no longer a teenager yet still an alpha, can gather both new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against what could be the most powerful and deadliest enemy they’ve ever faced.
Teen Wolf: The Movie premieres on Paramount+ on January 26th.
