This video was recorded before I learned that Amazon would buy MGM and gain partial ownership of the Teen Wolf
intellectual property. A full video on what that means for us is linked by card above and in the description below.
Hello there.
The 10th anniversary of the Teen Wolf debut is coming up on June 6 and Jeff Davis and
I recently spent some time reminiscing about the show.
And we also talked about potential future versions of Teen Wolf including some ideas
for an expanded Teen Wolf Universe including several new shows.
I posted some of that last week. The card and link are above and below. You really should watch that one first
if you haven’t seen it.
The video also gets into how we, as fans, can impact network decisions to bring the show back for
another season and possibly more.
Again, linked in the description so go watch it and tell your friends, especially those friends in the United States who have Hulu.
Wait a second. I'm getting off track.
Today we’re talking about Jeff’s ideas for an expanded Teen Wolf Universe and his
biggest regret from his time making the show.
Jeff Davis answers Teen Wolf fans.
Jeff Davis has answers for you guys today. Yay, hey.
Jeff Davis, yay hey, yay hey, yay.
Jeff Davis answers.
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To recap a little – last week I pitched my idea for a Teen Wolf Universe anthology
show called Beacon Hills.
How about a full period drama set while the Beast of Gevaudan was terrorizing and Marie
Jean was hunting him?
We could have a Hale Family Drama set in the mid 80s with baby Derek and Tyler Hoechlin guest starring as an uncle.
I’m still pitching my 70s themed Teen Wolf with young Gerard and Alexander
Argent hunting werewolves in the streets and discos of San Francisco.
Jeff Davis: I would love to see a teenage Argent story. Yeah. That's brilliant.
Jeff then pitched the ideas he’s come up with over the years for Teen Wolf spinoffs.
Keep in mind, he came up with this like eight years ago so any similarities to shows or
movies that currently exist – specifically Legacies on the CW and that New Mutants movie
were not a thing back then.
There were two spinoff ideas that I really would have liked to do.
One was an Eichen House spinoff called Echo House, I think I told you this before, where
Deaton would be the main Professor X character.
And it would be about young supernatural teens who are brought there to sort of like get
control of their abilities.
So it would be kind of like a Xavier’s School for Gifted Students but within our world instead.
And here is my attempt to merge Jeff’s Eichen House idea into my anthology series idea because
I am just that vain and I also really enjoy photoshop.
I also tied the whole Eichen House teenagers back to the Monroe Hunter War and made them orphans.
Anyway, this is just me stroking my ego again.
And then the other one I really wanted to do was a spinoff with Kira about the Kitsunes.
People love Kira.
Yeah, that’s great to hear.
Jeff had a lot of Kitsune mythology yet to explore including the dozen or so different
types of Kitsune.
I of course want to see Arden playing both Kira and her mother so I came up with a little
story that takes place in the present and in the 1950s so we could get some Cold War
spy thriller stuff going on.
Again, these are just ideas.
There can be no expanded Teen Wolf Universe unless the executives at MGM and Viacom
get off their overfed asses and realize they're sitting
on a goldmine.
One way for that to happen is to get about a million people to watch several episodes
of Teen Wolf on Hulu in one week.
Now, we’re going for about 400 million minutes of streaming in a week on a single platform
in order for Teen Wolf to appear on these streaming ratings.
Each Teen Wolf episode is 42 minutes long so if we get at least a million people watching
10 episodes each in a week – we’re getting up there.
As I’ve said, this strategy worked before when it brought Criminal Minds back from the
dead based on these ratings. So, we should definitely keep trying
Again, I’m off track. We did the spin off idea.
When I think about this it’s usually about regrets.
Regrets.
Regrets are next.
Jeff says he has decided on a few things he might change if he had those Teen Wolf years
to live over again but there’s one primary thing he would change for sure.
Jennifer Blake would still be alive.
People tell me it was a huge mistake killing her off in that season and I couldn’t
agree more.
She was too good of an actress to let go and it was also a great character.
The problem was, by that season, I felt like we’d brought back one or two many characters
and we had to make it real that at least one of them was going to die but looking back
at it now, I think to myself, never again would I have done that.
But you do these things in the heat of production and there is no time to make
decisions that you really puzzle over.
21:20 Once they started ordering 24 and 20 episodes a season, man, we had no time.
It’s hard to get a global view when you’re in the middle.
Absolutely. Yeah.
This was also a case of instant regret.
Davis actually plotted to bring Haley back in Season 5 in a complex Derek Hale plot based
off the Alfred Hitchcock movie Vertigo as I detailed in an earlier video.
“Is there something that you wanted to do with the show but never did and now never
will?”
“Oh, god.
That’s a good question.
Yeah, I did.
There was a … I wanted to do a whole storyline.
I wonder if they’ll kill me for this, if I talk about this.
I wanted to do a whole storyline with Derek Hale’s character and the return of Jennifer
Blake.
And I wanted it to be like Vertigo.”
Okay so you all remember Jennifer Blake.
She was the former Druid turned dark druid that captured Derek’s heart in Season 3
while at the same time murdering a goodly portion of the Beacon Hills virgin population
so she could seek revenge on the Alpha Pack who pretty much killed her many years earlier.
She’d been known as Julia back then and had an entirely different face that got ...damaged
during the course of her almost death.
Turns out killing all those virgins did wonders for her complexion and so she was presenting
as this when Derek met her.
“We realized that … Where part of the idea was that the Darach couldn’t just create
a face out of thin air.
She had to take one.
Derek finds this woman who looks exactly like Jennifer Blake sort of like Vertigo and it
starts to drive him insane.”
This is where the Vertigo stuff comes in.
In case you’re not familiar with the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic - Jimmy Steward is
in love and watches her fall to her death.
It breaks his mind and when he recovers, he’s still obsessed with her and thinks he sees
her everywhere until one day he actually does see her, but it’s not her, it’s just her
face on another woman.
In this case Derek would have been the obsessed Jimmy Stewart and Jennifer Blake would have
been the mysterious Kim Novak.
“That would have been part of Season 5 if Hoechlin had stayed.”
I for one am completely on board for a desperate Derek stalking some unsuspecting woman through
the streets of San Francisco. And this is one of those stories we could still see if we
manage to convince the corporate overlords that own Teen Wolf that they should start
making new episodes.
Yeah, I know I said it before but we need more of our fandom working on this
Instead of sitting around and complaining.
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