One pack got back together and another got together for the first time. That Teen Wolf: The Movie & wolf pack Double panel at New York Comic Con 2022 provided footage and other details about the upcoming film and spinoff series, both of which will premiere on January 26, 2023 on Paramount Plus.
Present for the panel discussion were showrunner Jeff Davis, returning cast members Tyler Posey, Crystal Reed, Holland Roden, Colton Haynes, Shelley Hennig, Dylan Sprayberry and Khylin Rhambo, and new cast members Vince Mattis and Amy Workman.
Not all of the cast from the popular MTV series are returning for the film, with Dylan O’Brien and Arden Cho notably absent, but creator Davis said the only character he insisted on was Allison, played by Reed. “I always said that if we were going to do a movie, we had to bring Crystal back,” he said.
The film takes place 15 years after the end of the show. “Scott McCall isn’t a juvenile wolf anymore,” Posey s aid. “He’s a 30-year-old wolf.” That means he’s going to be more moody and brooding than ever. “Beacon Hills carries a lot of weight for Scott. Emotionally physical. He’s constantly on edge, trying to save the world and trying to be the true Alpha.” However, in this time warp, he took a break from trying to be the hero and got lost. “It’s the first time we’ve seen him [try to be a normal human] since the pilot,” Posey said, and he’s “dealing with depression, loneliness and anxiety for the first time.”
He’s not the only character who changed significantly in this time warp. Panelists were treated to an early look at a scene from the film. The scene was supposed to be introduced by Tyler Hoechlin, who unfortunately got stuck in traffic on his way to New York’s Javits Center. According to Davis, it showed his character “in a whole new light.” This new light is fatherhood and mentorship for Eli, Mattis’ character who, according to him, “brings the teenager back to Teen Wolf.” Check it out below:
The cast spoke more about how they’ve grown since the show ended and what it was like coming back. Workman gushed about being accepted into the group, also dropping the tidbit that while she wasn’t a fan, she studied teenage wolf in acting class.
The love fest was then cut short to accommodate Davis’ second Lupine project, wolf pack. The main cast of the new series were Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rodrigo Santoro, Armani Jackson, Bella Shepard, Chloe Rose Robertson and Tyler Lawrence Gray, all of whom were present at the panel discussion. It wouldn’t be teenage wolf
Based on the little we know wolf pack remembers Fear the walking death‘s relationship to the Walking Dead in the early years. It’s a spin-off in the sense that the two shows are set in the same world but are sonically and thematically different. wolf pack follows four teenagers who get together after wildfire in California seemingly sparked a werewolf attack. Since details surrounding the series are still pretty top secret, they started by debuting a teaser trailer:
It felt like the panel was throwing breadcrumbs about their characters and the storyline, which is perhaps appropriate for these characters who are both metaphorically and physically lost in the woods. Geller plays Krisin Ramsey, an arson investigator with supernatural knowledge. Santoro plays a park ranger named Garrett Briggs who is “constantly at odds with the responsibilities of fatherhood” and would do anything for his children, who, in the actor’s own words, have “a very special connection to nature.” Those kids are Luna and Harlan, played by newcomers Robertson and Gray. The other two children, Everett and Blake, are played by Jackson and Shepard.
The words the young cast use to describe their characters are “scared”, “lonely”, “not really happy” and “denial”. That sense of isolation and open exploration of mental health is what prompted Geller to sign on for another project about monsters years later Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, after drawing parallels between how these characters experience the world and how we’ve lost that sense of connection in the age of digitization and pandemic. “By using the supernatural, we explain things that we can’t really understand,” she said. “The stories we can’t really grasp, or the ones that would be too depressing and too upsetting in real life. We use them to scare ourselves.” Im wolf packthat scary thing is not having the support of a pack.
Despite being isolated and even at odds on the show, the cast spoke about bonding before filming even began — something Davis said happened teenage wolf as well as with Posey and O’Brien. Davis shared no further details on how the two shows may or may not be connected. Maybe stays open on Jan 26th if Teen Wolf: The Movie and wolf pack hit streaming.