Here's my breakdown of the Teen Wolf movie scene we saw Friday at New York Comic-Con.
This scene is a spoiler on several key questions about the plot.
If you're avoiding spoilers you have five or three two one -
Okay.
Eli Hale: Dad put me down. Geez. Please put me down.
Derek: You said you couldn't walk.
Eli: I can hop. Thanks.
That father-son moment in the locker room with Hoechlin and Vince was
the very first thing they shot on the very first day back in March.
Derek: You almost had that shot.
Eli: No I didn't.
Derek: Yes you did. I saw it. You were right at the goal.
You're better than you think you are
Eli: I was in for less than a minute. I got the ball for a second and I got
knocked on my ass and I twisted my ankle. It wasn't anything.
Derek: Eli.
Eli: It was nothing.
Derek: It was something.
This is also the original season three set for Beacon Hills High School.
Derek: I was watching coach and he saw it too.
You're good. You're really good. And if you can heal, you could play tomorrow night.
That is a spoiler. Back when I talked to Vince on
set one of the things he revealed to me is that Eli is indeed a werewolf.
Derek: You can help them win.
The first step to transforming is healing but you've got to be willing to learn.
And here we learned that he's just an embryonic werewolf. His powers haven't kicked in yet.
This is also a canon touchstone. There are apparently no little baby werewolves
tearing up the nursery schools in this universe.
Eli's abilities haven't kicked in yet and we learned that he has
to kickstart the process himself even for something as automatic as healing.
We get this nice father-son moment and then all hell breaks loose.
Derek: Get down!
Run! Run!
Okay so I kind of knew this,
but I spent a lot of time deleting spoiler speculation around Allison in this scene.
Derek:Allison?
We don't know her motivation.
We don't know what she's up to here.
And I can tell you with authority that Allison is not the...
Wait. I probably should not say that because obviously there is a reason for them showing this.
I'm not gonna eff with their plans but I will tell you that if you're drawing a lot of conclusions
from this scene as to the whole plot of the movie - this has very little to do with the big story.
Let me repeat that. This has very little to do with the big story.
I think that's safe to say.
Allison is just a bit of chaos but she is not the primary source of chaos.
That's our first look at an entire scene. Jeff says a full trailer will
be coming and then of course the movie debuts on January 26 on Paramount Plus