Hello there, I’m Paul Rea from the Official Teen Wolf Wiki and this
is the Teen Wolf News update for November 2021.
In this video I talk to Jeff Davis about the new
Teen Wolf movie as well as his two new shows Wolf Pack and Aeon Flux.
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A quick catch up on the Jeff Davis Empire as it stands right now.
The Teen Wolf movie is slated for release on the Paramount Plus streaming service some time
next year. I get about a dozen questions a day asking if it’s going to be on Netflix.
The answer is no. Paramount Plus is a competing streaming service and won’t
be sharing it’s content with competitors like Netflix. So no. It’s only on Paramount Plus.
We don’t have a release date for the Teen Wolf movie but it will come out sometime next year.
I did learn some information that suggests it will be coming out more quickly than
I had first thought and I’ll get to that later in the video.
The movie might be the first in a trilogy of Teen Wolf films. If a lot of Teen Wolf fans subscribe
to Paramount Plus when the movie comes out, we could get two additional movies in the coming years
The deal MTV Entertainment made with MGM was for a trilogy but we only get more movies
if the first one is huge and attracts a ton of new subscribers to the Paramount Plus service.
In addition to Teen Wolf, Jeff Davis is working on another
werewolf series for Paramount Plus called Wolf Pack. It’s going to be
based on a series of supernatural novels by Canadian horror writer Edo van Belkom.
From the description released by MTV Entertainment, the television series
will diverge quite a bit from the novels. But I’ve collected all the basic information
about the series at the Wolf Pack TV show Wiki. The link is above and in description.
The other series Jeff is doing for Paramount Plus
is a live action version of Aeon Flux. The sci-fi cartoon series
was big in the early 90s and the new series will be part of the streamer’s nostalgia push.
They’re mining a lot of their old intellectual property for new shows.
I know almost nothing about what Jeff has planned here, but Aeon Flux is the furthest
along in development of his three new projects so I’ll have a little update on that a little later.
Let’s see. Teen Wolf Movie, possible trilogy. Wolf Pack series, and Aeon Flux.
You should be caught up to date now.
As you can see from all that, Jeff Davis is a very busy man. I would like to see a few “Thank you
Jeff Davis” comments for him taking up what little free time he has to do a rather lengthy
email chain with me this week. Yes this is blurred out because we ended up talking about
personal stuff not related to the news and those conversations are none of your damn business.
Here’s what he had to say about where they are in the process of making the Teen Wolf movie,
“No casting news yet. I can tell you the script outlining is going great.
We have the broad strokes and it’s a big, epic story.
In fact, if we get half of what we’ve come up with on screen, I’ll be incredibly happy."
The impression I got from our conversation is that the film will be heavy with action
sequences but also a lot of the incredibly emotional beats that Teen Wolf is known for.
Jeff also mentioned that he’s trying to wedge as many characters into the story
as he possibly can which suggests to me that, while they’re not ready to announce
casting, Jeff’s ambition is to have more not less when it comes to returning characters.
Casting news will most likely come from MTV Entertainment or Paramount Plus
in a major press release.
The next best opportunity for that casting announcement will be when the
2011 Teen Wolf series starts streaming globally on Paramount Plus next month.
In the meantime, don’t believe anything you hear about who is or is not coming back for the movie.
When they’re ready to announce, it’ll be in every single entertainment publication on the same day.
Anyone claiming to know the full details of the cast before that official announcement is just click bait.
Plus, they’re not even close to the start of filming for Teen Wolf anyway.
As Jeff says, they’re just outlining the script right now which means that the actual
putting-words-on-the-page writing of the script hasn’t really started yet.
Once they have an outline, and all the beats of the story strung together into
a cohesive whole, then writing will be underway.
It’s all a bit messier than that. Some scenes are already worked out to near
completion in Jeff’s head while others are just a sketch on paper, but basically Jeff
and his co-writers still have several weeks to go before they'll have a finished script.
At the same time, Jeff is working on the pilot episode of the new Wolf Pack Series.
He says, “I'm still working on the Wolf Pack outline while also reading
samples from writers to start the room.”
I explained about outlining. He’s in that phase with Wolf Pack too. At the same time,
since this will be an ongoing series, they’re going to have to hire several more writers to
work on subsequent episodes. That’s why he’s reading sample scripts from working writers
in order to assemble a writers’ room.
If you don’t know, a writers room is where Jeff, as executive producer, and a team of
other writers work out how each season will be put together and then break the overall story line.
But as Jeff said, it’s early days for the Wolf Pack production.
They’re just at the very start of the process.
The Aeon Flux production is quite a bit further along.
The writers room is up and running and they’re deep into preparing the first season already.
I know very little else about Aeon. Jeff is being tight lipped and I kind of understand that because
there’s a lot of pressure with this property that doesn’t exist with either Teen Wolf or Wolf Pack.
Aeon Flux already had a live-action adaptation which is not remembered fondly
by a vocal group of critics. I’ve already seen articles demanding that Jeff “fix”
the mistakes of the past. I doubt very much he’s overly concerned with such things, but it is a
high-profile property and MTV Entertainment will be attempting to manage information more closely
to avoid those weird misunderstandings that can sink a show before it ever debuts.
One thing I do know is that despite the fact that this is the most advanced of Jeff’s three projects,
they will not start filming the Aeon Flux pilot until after they start filming Teen Wolf.
Part of this I imagine is because Jeff is also directing the two-hour Aeon Flux
pilot episode, but the scheduling suggests to me that Teen Wolf could be on an accelerated track.
I had predicted that the movie wouldn’t hit Paramount Plus
until Christmas of 2022, a little over one year from now.
The fact that they’re jumping into production before the higher-profile Aeon Flux series
which is currently much further along in development
suggests to me that Paramount Plus may be looking for an earlier release for Teen Wolf.
Again, I am speculating 100% but given what’s out there and the desperate need for streaming
content, it’s possible the Teen Wolf movie could land in the Summer of 22.
my money is still on Christmas next year but things are moving pretty fast.
Thanks for watching. I’m sure you have questions, ask them in the comments and I’ll do my best.
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