Above is Tyler Posey, you may remember him as the little boy from Maid in Manhattan...no? Well, he snagged the lead role in the Teen Wolf remake which is being called a, "dramatic thriller with a buddy-comedy element at the center and a romantic plot line," by the trades. Let's hope his buddy is a Mummy. Posey is playing Scott McCall a, "dorky high-school student who gets a rush of new powers, including the ability to attract girls, after a wolf attack."

His evil nemesis — besides math tests and high school crushes — will be played by Tyler Hoechlin will play a, "handsome local boy who in fact is a vicious and predatory werewolf capable of great harm." See the picture below.

Bad Wolf:

Love Interes/New Girl, Crystal Reed:

I still haven't found a picture of the "skeptical wise cracking best friend" Dylan O'Brien, who at first rejects Sam's theory that he is, in fact a werewolf, but eventually become the nerd/brainy supernatural expert.

My only problem with this reimagined franchise isn't the baby faced, actually teenaged teens, nor the idea that this will be a toned down version of the original. My only issue is that there is little to no mention of basketball.

[via THR]

Side A, Vampires:

Blade, Blood Club

Once Bitten, "Hands Off"

Fright Night, "Good Man In A Bad Time"

Love At First Bite, With The Original Track "I Love The Night Life"

Twilight Prom Dance Clip

The Hunger

Side B, Werewolves:

Werewolf Steppers: He Jumps over A Bear Trap!

Werewolves Dance - For more funny videos, click here

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

Teen Wolf Dance

Teen Wolf Too "Shut Up And Dance"

Middle Aged Wolf from Marc Milstein on Vimeo.

[via Holy Taco]

Frankenstein Conquers The World

Because, sometimes, a monster has to save the world from a Godzilla-esque other monster, who's threatening (where else?) Japan.

Dracula The Superhero
We'd love to say that we can't blame Dell Comics for trying to cash in on the Batmania of the 1960s by turning Dracula into a superhero, but... Well, it's Dracula as a superhero. Even worse, it's a modern-day Count Dracula as a scientist who accidentally swallows some formula that allows him to transform into a bat and then decides to fight crime in a purple jumpsuit. Seriously, in what world is that a good idea?

Supporting Team Spirit Is Some Kind Of Good-Doing, Right?
Maybe werewolves were meant to be working for a common good. Exhibit A:

Frankenstein's Monster... Hunter
Ignore the shortlived attempt to turn the character into a superhero from the same people behind the Dracula superhero (Although we're slightly charmed by the secret identity "Frank N. Stone"); the best comic version of Mary Shelley's creation is undoubtedly Grant Morrison's sullen hero from the Seven Soldiers series, packing heat and a grim demeanor as he dispatches demons, alien invasions and deals with his former Bride, who just so happens to be a reanimated agent of a secret government agency investigating weirdness. Freaks have never had such a strong defender as this son of Victor Frankenstein.

Zombies Can Do More Than Shuffle
It's hard to make a case for zombies being good guys; they're mostly unthinking forces of brain-eating chaos, as opposed to particularly malicious. And yet, who could argue that this didn't improve their life just a little bit?

Werewolf By Night
His name is Jack Russell, people. Whoever said that the 1970s wasn't the age of Mighty Marvel Bad Ideas?

Buffy The Vampire Slayer In General
Vampires with souls, sarcastic werewolves in bands and demons with perfectly justifiable fears of bunnies. Joss Whedon's calling card may have specialized in making heroes out of monsters - even Dracula helped out the Slayers in the Season Eight comic series - but he made sure to keep them interesting even after they'd seen the light (Metaphorically so, in Angel's and Spike's cases, of course).

Dracula Saves Hallowe'en

Any movie that has a plot where Dracula has to save Hallowe'en because the classic horror monsters are seen as funny rather than scary already has our love, but where The Hallowe'en That Almost Wasn't goes horribly wrong isn't even the Munsters-esque treatment of the characters, but the casting of Judd Hirsch as Dracula. There's just no way to find that man scary, sadly.

We Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts (1)

'Nuff said? No, wait...

We Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts (2)

Definitely 'nuff said. Paranormal Activity would've been so much better if it'd been Casper visiting instead...

Now that MTV has decided to move forward with this serious were drama calamity, it seem only right that we try and find the perfect young actor to be your next Teen Wolf.

Ed Westwick

Why He's Got Bite: I get this feeling there a little hairy monster just dying to get out of this kid and terrorize the town, and no — that was not intended to be intentionally dirty, but now I'm leaving it that way.

Why They Should Be Shaven And Cast Out Of Our Supernatural Realm: Casting Gossip Girl left-overs would really kill any hope for anything less than a soppy teen drama.

The Jonas Brothers
Why They've Got Bite: Three times the howls... because there are three of them.

Why They Should Be Shaven And Cast Out Of Our Supernatural Realm: It would be an insult to all werewolves everywhere — even the waxed-chest Jacob from Twilight would hang his head in shame, plus we already know they are Highlanders.

Jesse Eisenberg
Why He's Got Bite: He could bring us the awkward going-through-wolf-puberty we're looking for.

Why They Should Be Shaven And Cast Out Of Our Supernatural Realm: The whole "poor man's Michael Cera" thing.

Freddie Highmore

Why He's Got Bite: Probably the most realistic out of the bunch. It could be nice to have a wide-eyed optimist as a werewolf, but only if he eats his sister after a full-moon fight.

Why They Should Be Shaven And Cast Out Of Our Supernatural Realm: Even his doe eyes get old.

Thomas Dekker

Why He's Got Bite: He can pull off troubled, this we know, and a little bit of light werehumor, like shotgunning a beer with his fangs, could do this kid a world of good.
Why They Should Be Shaven And Cast Out Of Our Supernatural Realm: He may be a bit too over-dramatic.

But I'll light my house on fire if Zac Efron gets cast in the role.

When prompted by a fan question (and then even more prompting from Marvel's Jim McCann), Teen Wolf creator Loeb talked about the third Teen Wolf that we never saw. Back in the 1980s, Alyssa Milano was a big fan of both the Michael J. Fox movie and hockey, and tried to make a third movie that she would star in as a white wolf who played hockey. As other members of the panel admitted that they'd watch the movie, Loeb clarified "that did not happen. In case you think you just missed it, it did not happen."

Surprising the fan who'd asked the original question, Loeb said something is happening with Teen Wolf, but that rumors about MTV and Warner Bros being involved are not true. He didn't hint at who was, however.

MTV is looking into adapting the 1980s camp classic Teen Wolf into a television series, instead of (or as well as) the much-mooted film. Normally, this would be met with a loud and resounding "please no," but the writers being name-checked to work on the series have piqued our interest.

Attached to Executive Produce is Rene Echevarria from Castle who has been a writer and producer for The 4400, a few Star Treks and Dark Angel. We're excited about this one, but not so much the other two. Marty Adelstein, who did credible work on Prison Break, should not be let off the hook for his work on Made of Honor. And the series writer, Jeff Davis, has only worked thus far on Criminal Minds. But Davis did pen the Volton movie, so there's hope for some nerd cred within this new crew.

Next up on MTV's original series to-do list is an animated series produced by Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker. The show is titled The Awesomes, and features a gang of moronic superheroes. Lorne Michaels will be produce it. I know Meyers is a huge comic book geek, but it's hard to get excited for bumbling superhero shows when The Tick aced that genre already. Plus didn't the ABC's attempt at this type of series, No Heroics, go down in flames? Still, MTV might actually be the right place for this type of show.

[Variety]

Movie Hole is reporting that WB is hunting for writers to reboot Teen Wolf, and they're not sure what direction they're going to take it in yet. I hope it's a dark one, because that's in style now, right?

It's not possible to recreate this type of 80s camp — it is just not. Just go ahead and cast Zack Efron in it and get it over with. News like this is utterly demoralizing. Just make a new werewolf movie — why try and live up to the highs of were-Michael J. Fox?

They already tried to make a Teen Wolf Too, and although I love Jason Bateman, we all know how that went....

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for an insurgence of new were-centric media, but something new please. Maybe they'll hire the Lonely Island writers as they seem to grasp the funny behind the original:


But we all know they won't, and it will reek of yester-comedy, and moulder in the theaters, a giant desecration of the original.