With "Twilight," "Vampire Diaries," and "True Blood," making supernatural beings the most popular characters in pop culture today, the entertainment climate just seemed ripe for a "Teen Wolf" remake.
MTV seemed to think so too and now the network is launching a series based off the popular 1985 movie of the same name that starred Michael J. Fox as a teenage boy who turns into a werewolf and becomes the star of his high school basketball team.
However, unlike the film, the television series is a dark drama, according to its star Tyler Posey, who plays Scott McCall, the quiet high school LaCrosse player who becomes a newly bitten werewolf.
"The film was mostly based on comedy and basketball and we mostly focus on drama," Posey told OnTheRedCarpet.com host Chris Balish at the show's premiere earlier this week. "But we also focus on comedy, romance, love, horror, it's very scary, it's a thriller and they're all put together in one, kick ass show."
Dylan O'Brien portrays his character's wisecracking friend Stiles. Crystal Reed plays Allison, Scott's love interest who is the mysterious new girl in town.
"I'm basically playing two different characters. I'm playing an innocent sweet, kid that's tired of being an outcast and I'm also playing an insane, psychopath, killer werewolf," Posey explained about his character.
In the "Teen Wolf" franchise, which also featured at 1987 sequel with Jason Bateman as the titular teen wolf, the main characters inherit the wolf trait as sort of a family curse. However in the television series, Scott is just an ordinary teen who gets bitten by a mysterious creature in the woods.
"I have so much freedom to do stuff. Especially with the werewolf because there's nothing you can compare a werewolf to because you can't research the real transformation into a real werewolf," Posey said.
The actor adds that the make-up and prosthetics help him get into his wolf role. "The make-up is a prosthetic piece that goes around my eyes," the 19-year-old actor said. "At first it took like four and a half hours in the chair and I was like, 'Dude am I really going to have to sit here for four and a half hours every day?' But by the end of the season we got down to like two, one and a half hours."
"Having that make up on, I really do feel creepy and it totally puts me in the role," Posey said, before howling at our camera for kicks.
The show is set to premiere on MTV on Sunday, June 5 following the 2011 MTV Movie Awards. Check out the trailer for "Teen Wolf" below.
(Reporting by Chris Balish, co-host of KABC Television's entertainment show "On The Red Carpet" check for local TV listings.)
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