I keep saying this but some people are just too thick to get it.
Stop believing the internet when it comes to stuff about the Teen Wolf movie.
I had to do the same announcement back when Google was posting the cast list including
people we knew weren't in the movie or characters that were long dead.
Google and IMDb are still wrong on some of that by the way.
Currently, I'm getting three messages a day asking what I think of the announced running
time for the movie.
This question is down to otherwise intelligent people believing random information posted
by random people to sites like Rotten Tomatoes claiming knowledge they can't possibly have.
I can say with certainty that no one really knows how long the Teen Wolf movie will be
once it releases on Paramount Plus on January 26th.
Everything you're reading - all these claims - are just as nonsensical as those early cast
lists because, at the time of this recording in December 2022, the producers of Teen Wolf
are not fully done editing the movie.
But I did a little checking with my friends at Teen Wolf HQ and I can tell you that the
latest edit for Teen Wolf: The Movie comes in right at two hours and 20 minutes.
You heard me right. We're getting more than two hours of Teen Wolf goodness coming to
our screens at the end of next month.
But keep in mind that that number could still change.
It shouldn't change by much.
However, as The Duffer Brothers revealed back in the summer, streaming movies and series
can be edited right up to the release date and even after they premiere if the need arises.
Matt: If you watched season four - maybe I shouldn't be saying this - but if you watched season
four the night it came out versus if you watched it one day later.
Friday.
Friday. It's different.
What?
Some of the visual effects.
It's not like story, but we were... You're essentially patching in shots. Netflix,
I don't think they've ever allowed people to patch on opening weekend And we said, "Well
why not?" And they said, "Well it makes us nervous."
And we're like, "Well maybe we try it this time." And it turned out it turned out fine.
Again, Teen Wolf the movie is currently running two hours and 20 minutes long and will probably
stay within five minutes of that one way or the other.
I'm getting a lot of chatter about the Nogitsune looking different in the new trailer.
You are all correct in your assessments - it does look different and here's the real reason why.
Remember Noshiko summoned a spirit to Earth for the very first time in the 1940s and it
promptly inhabited the body of a dead, badly burned soldier covered head to toe in bandages.
It then stole a bomber jacket and the truck it was in and went on a killing spree.
This was the body it had when Noshiko and Satomi forced it out and into its smallest
viable form on this plane - that of the simple housefly.
When it escaped the first time in late 2011, the only fully humanoid shape it had up until
this point was the fully bandaged soldier so it projected that shape when it needed to.
Then it possessed Stiles and made itself a Stiles-shaped body so it could be free of
the still struggling human.
While it was now Stiles-shaped, it could still take on the shape that it had before.
Mainly it did this for effect to scare people during its hallucinations.
Once again nogitsune was defeated. This time by Scott biting it.
The bite of an alpha werewolf is logically a breach of the rule that Nogitsune cannot
be two things.
The Nogitsune flees back into the form of a housefly and tries to escape only to be
stopped by Isaac and the Nemeton jar.
Now we know Nogitsune is back. In the first teaser trailer, we heard it negotiating with
someone in an attempt to be set free.
Void: You want retribution...
against him,
his friends,
everyone he loves.
Set me free and we'll play a new game.
In order for that to happen, this liberator of void spirit must be willing to host the
creature in their body.
If you're counting, this will be body number three for this nogitsune.
It's a little like Doctor Who regeneration.
It's a new look but it is reflective of all its past looks.
We still get the bandages but they're tighter, almost like skin now.
Then we have a new leather jacket. It gives us the same bomber jacket vibe just in a more
modern cut.
People have pointed out that it has claws or - just hear me out - maybe it's just long fingernails?
Think about it for a second.
We have zero idea who this new host might be. They could have beautifully manicured nails.
You can all guess, but there's absolutely no way to know for sure until we see the movie.
And you really shouldn't be focusing on the look of this thing so much. Focus instead
on the fact that it now has a 100 percent willing host and it can do some truly insane stuff.
Let's talk about Deputy Ishida for a minute.
I know the actor playing our newest deputy - Nobi Nakanishi - is a friend of Jeff's for
a very long time.
He already showed up as two different characters during the run of the Teen Wolf TV show.
Ikeda: Superstitious idiots
You really think Yuki got in here ate this stuff?
Deaton: I doubt if you could even drag him in.
Some part of him probably senses what happened here.
But his character in the upcoming movie on Paramount Plus is brand new.
Up until Sunday, we knew literally nothing about him except his name and the fact that
he works alongside Parrish and Mason and Sheriff Stilinski as a deputy for Beacon County.
Then that new trailer comes out, and just a few frames of video speak volumes about
what's going on with Deputy Ishida.
Deaton: The nogitsune has come to play a new game.
There are four shots really.
He turns the corner to see the nogitsune in the holding area.
Then Void reaches out and pulls him forward with some unseen force.
Then we get the real kicker.
It appears that the Nogitsune is ripping a flaming fox spirit out of the body of Deputy Ishida.
This thing is not as big as the spirit we saw hovering over Kira but we can assume that
they're smaller when they're outside of the body that they possess.
To somebody who loves the canon of this show as much as I do, this is the best scene in
the entire trailer.
It not only speaks to our new deputy's supernatural nature but also points to some creepy new
powers for the nogitsune.
There is a time jump in the Teen Wolf movie.
This has been a week full of "I mentioned this before" videos, but as more and more
people discover that the Teen Wolf movie is actually a thing that is happening next month
on Paramount Plus, I find myself running into a lot of the same misunderstandings all over again.
One of the biggest is about the time jump between the end of the Teen Wolf TV show and
the start of the movie.
I first reported back in April that Teen Wolf: The Movie takes place in 2026.
Jeff Davis told me at the time that he sat down and worked out that year based mostly
off the birth of new character Eli Hale.
Davis wanted to place Eli's conception before we met Derek Hale in season one to avoid setting
up the suggestion that his mother might be someone we already know or his birth interfering
with the timeline.
The action in season one of Teen Wolf starts in January of 2011.
Eli will be 15 years old in the new movie.
This means Eli was conceived sometime in 2010 and the movie takes place sometime in 2026.
This date is also borne out on the banners hanging around the lacrosse stadium and this
inspection sticker on the Hale Auto big rig wrecker we spotted on set in Atlanta.
If you are easily confused by dates and timelines, just stop watching now.
You have the facts about the time jump and this next bit, well... it might just confuse
the whole thing for you.
Skip out now unless you're better at this timeline math than I am because this part
confused me.
Teen Wolf episode one is taking place in January 2011.
The final episode of Teen Wolf - the majority of the action in that episode - takes place
in the Autumn of 2013.
Since the events of the movie happen in 2026, the actual time jump is at least 12 years
since the series ended.
There are no baby hellhounds in the Teen Wolf universe.
This actually came up in conversation this week because I ran a poll about the Malia/Parrish
pairing that appears to be happening in the new Teen Wolf movie and because I have been
talking a lot about supernatural reproduction lately.
There are no baby hellhounds in the Teen Wolf universe and Parrish cannot bite someone and
make a new hellhound.
Lydia: Who am I talking to?
Parrish: Cerberus,
Garmr,
Black Shuck.
I've had many names.
Hellhounds in this universe are immortal spirits who have been around since the very first
human died and all the other humans wondered what the hell happened.
Chris: Where do you think you go when you die?
Sam: Wanna poke him?
Chris: Do I!
Along with the Wild Hunt's Ghost Riders and the humans who are banshees, the hellhounds
are a basic part of the cosmic machinery that manages some aspects of the human afterlife.
As I've explained before, the Wild Hunt and the hellhounds are just our perception of
these cosmic forces.
To other cultures around the world these same forces do not look like cowboys and growling hunks.
Okay the growling hunk form may be universal. It is Teen Wolf after all.
But overall these types of spirits are shaped by the perceptions of the cultures in which
they appear.
No matter what they look like, it's all of the same thing with basically the same purpose,
to help us understand and deal with death and the supernatural.
So, with all that high philosophical [ __ ] out of the way, hellhounds do not reproduce
because they're immortal spirits.
If the body they possess dies they just return to the spirit realm and wait until they need
to return to our reality for some reason, either to deal with death or manage some other
supernatural thing that gets out of control.
And since the hellhound is just using Parrish to get around, if Parrish and Malia were to
make a baby, that baby would be werecoyote because she is a...
No. I'm not explaining that again. Go and watch the baby werewolf video if you really
want to know how that works.
Bottom line - hellhounds can't make new hellhounds.
Before the new trailer hit on Sunday, I posted a thing about how the druid relationship with
modern Teen Wolf packs supports the theory that werewolves started with Lycaon and Zeus
in the deep dark past.
The basic thesis is that since druids on Teen Wolf are real and their druid knowledge allows
them to do very real things,
Malia: Weird.
and since they do support the werewolf community in an almost symbiotic relationship, the ancient
stories told to us by Gerard in the episode "Visionary" are actually true.
Gerard: Lycaon sought out the druids to help turn him back to human.
They couldn't make Lycaon and his son's human again, but they did teach them how to shift
back and forth.
In addition to all that, everything in the canon about how werewolf abilities work on
the show also supports the Zeus origin story.
Peter: The power that provides you with those special gifts. The power that heightens your
senses, your strength, the power that transforms your body.
We know there is a special spark of energy inside the werewolf that does all the work
of shape-shifting healing and strength.
Stiles: Scott you're bleeding again. Don't tell me it's just taking longer to heal. Because
I'm pretty sure that "still bleeding" means "not healing" at all.
We know the abilities provided by the spark are heavily influenced by how the werewolf
is doing emotionally.
We know that regular humans generate power within their bodies.
That electricity makes our brains work and creates our self-awareness.
Now many cultures around the world call that energy the human soul.
Long before we knew about all this internal electrical field stuff, humans decided the
soul is divine.
This all adds up and supports the story we were told, Zeus made the original werewolves
from Lycaon and his 49 sons by transforming their internal energy.
It's the same internal energy present inside all living humans.