![]() ![]() With Back to the Future originally set to open in May 1985, the producers decided they couldn't wait for Fox, and reluctantly he had to pass on the role. However, at this time his 'TV Mom' Meredithīaxter-Birney was pregnant, and with the show working around her pregnancy and schedule the producer, Gary David Goldberg, was unwilling to allow another member of the cast any unscheduled time off. Up to this point his film career consisted of standard teen high school fare (Class of 1984, High School USA), so the lead in a Steven Spielberg production was the breakout movie role he had been looking for. ![]() Fox was beginning work on season 3 of the hit show Family Ties when he was offered the part of Marty McFly in Back To The Future. And it would be the world of television that Teen Wolf would look to to find its leading man. Solely on the small screen up until this point, was another hired on the strength of his price tag. Once the script was in place director Rod Daniel, who had worked Valley Girl (which featured Nicholas Cage in his first starring Hired because he was cheap, Teen Wolf itself only came about becauseĪtlantic Releasing Corporation were looking for a "comedy that wouldĬost nothing" after achieving some success with the equally thrifty Smallville, Lost and multiple comic book titles), who was essentially Written by the then unknown Jeph Loeb (who went on to write for Heroes, In fact the story of this little movie's production owes a great deal to the Spielberg/Zemekis blockbuster beyond just catapulting its star to international fame. While Teen Wolf: The Movie might technically be the third film in the franchise, it's truly the first film of the definitive version of this story.Let's face it, if it wasn't for Back To The Future, Teen Wolf would've likely been a direct-to-VHS release with very little exposure and possibly struggled to make back its modest $1.2 million budget. Despite the differences in each iteration, there is poetry to the roundabout way Teen Wolf found its way back to the movies. It's been so successful that when someone says "teen wolf," they probably mean Tyler Posey more often than Michael J. From there, Davis and the other storytellers are off to the races, creating a world that endured long past the heyday of True Blood, Twilight and other stories in the "scary but also sexy" horror genre. Scott inherits his power in the 1985 movie from his father, but in the 2011 series, he gets bitten. Other than names, the show's story is different from the original. Just as the first movie changed the way people thought of werewolves, the series changed how people thought about Teen Wolf. Davis kept Loeb's idea that being a werewolf is akin to having a superpower, but he returned the drama and, more importantly, the horror elements. Yet, the "Teen Wolf" name and concept lay dormant for decades until Jay Davis dusted it off and decided to take the story seriously. Teen Wolf characters share the same names, and Stiles is cool in every universe. MTV's Teen Wolf shares more in common with Syfy's 12 Monkeys, a show that reimagined its source material to tell its own story.
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