At SDCC, Tyler Posey, Tyler Hoechlin, and Teen Wolf creator Jeff Davis teased what it was like returning for the upcoming movie.
Teen Wolf stars Tyler Posey and Tyler Hoechlin, and creator Jeff Davis swung by Corridor H at San Diego Comedian-Con 2022 to talk concerning the upcoming film and reveal some wonderful behind-the-scenes secrets and techniques about bringing these characters again. Here is the whole lot we realized:
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First, Tyler Posey stated he is been “an advocate” for bringing Teen Wolf again even “earlier than” the sequence led to 2017. And he stated coming again to to play Scott now was nice as a result of he is “in one of the best place” he is ever been in his total life.
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“It feels serendipitous that the present is again proper now,” Tyler continued. “We took an extended sufficient step away from it to actually admire it and miss it. The present consumed our lives for 10 years, and we had been simply consistently busy filming the present. So, I feel all of us wanted a break. It is simply particular, bringing it again to everyone. I feel this period of time was good. Any longer, individuals would have forgotten the present.”
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Tyler Posey defined that the Teen Wolf film is “the whole lot the followers need” and it is “the whole thing of the present wrapped up into one film.” He additionally described it as “nostalgic.”
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Tyler continued, saying, “It is each character you ever need to see ever once more. The forged has grown up. We’re grown up now. Identical to each single one in all [the fans]. We began this present, I used to be 18, and now our characters are of their 30s. It is a complete new aspect of Teen Wolf.”
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Tyler Hoechlin discovered he was formally returning as Derek Hale “not too lengthy” earlier than filming started and he stated it was unimaginable attending to reunite with these actors once more.
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“I’ve so lots of my finest pals are from this present, genuinely,” Tyler started. “So, I’ve seen a number of them constantly since we have completed the present, however to see everyone again on set, on the trailer getting hair and make-up executed, stepping into wardrobe, and calling them by their character’s names once more, was such a loopy journey down reminiscence lane. I feel Posey and I in all probability hugged one another 50 or 60 occasions that first day. I feel I stated ‘I like you” to him greater than I’ve ever stated it to my household.”
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And, Tyler Posey stated as soon as Tyler Hoechlin stepped onto set, “all of those feelings and recollections” got here flooding again and it felt “actually particular.”
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Turning to Tyler Hoechlin on the panel, Tyler stated, “You actually helped carry this nostalgic vibe again each time I noticed you. It is true.”
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Creator Jeff Davis stated he by no means thought of doing simply one other season of Teen Wolf, however he began placing collectively concepts for the place these characters could possibly be, and it changed into a “very lengthy film as a result of [they] basically have 20 essential characters.”
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“As soon as I completed the script, it was about 138 pages, and I noticed I wrote a brief Season 7,” Jeff joked. “So, we’ll see how a lot of that lasts within the remaining minimize, nevertheless it was actually wonderful to carry all of the characters again and to revisit them.”
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Jeff Davis additionally revealed that there will likely be a time soar when the film kicks off, and that is the primary time Tyler Posey’s Scott will really be older than he’s proper now.
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Tyler defined, “I’ve by no means been the identical age as Scott. Once we first began, he was 15 and I used to be 18.”
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When Teen Wolf: The Film picks up, Scott has left Beacon Hills behind and he is now dwelling in Los Angeles. Tyler Posey teased that we see Scott as a “regular particular person” when the film begins.
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“Beacon Hills type of messed Scott up. Beacon Hills was a fucking wild trip. So Scott needed to step away, so he lives in Los Angeles now,” Tyler started. “We needed to get away from Beacon Hills, he needed to place the management function on the shelf for a short while. So once we choose up with him, he is type of a traditional particular person. He nonetheless works on the vet. He is lonely. He is an grownup and he is going by what all of us have gone by as adults. Scott offers with the fact of what it’s to be an precise human as a substitute of a superhero werewolf saving the world consistently.”
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Tyler Posey revealed that one in all his favourite issues concerning the film is that Scott is ready to “cross the torch” to a different teen, particularly Eli Hale, Derek’s son.
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“I used to be lastly an grownup,” Tyler started. “It felt actually good to type of step into that function. I did not have to indicate my bare physique, which was actually cool too. There may be one scene the place you see my chest.”
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Tyler Hoechlin stated returning to do the film was a unique expertise than when he left the sequence after which returned to complete Derek’s storyline. He stated that the primary time he left everybody was nonetheless engaged on the present, however this time everyone was having a reunion collectively.
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“All people had type of gone and skilled life with out Teen Wolf for somewhat bit. So it felt far more like a shared expertise, versus my expertise coming again to the present. I feel simply coming again to those characters in such completely different locations of their lives, and we’re somewhere else in our lives than once we left. There’s simply one thing particular about that,” he defined.
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Jeff Davis recalled a really surreal second seeing the forged collectively once more for the primary time when Tyler Posey, Colton Haynes, and JR Bourne went to his workplace and browse some scenes for the primary time.
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“They hadn’t learn the script but. I simply informed them somewhat bit about it,” Jeff started. “We began studying the scenes collectively and all of us form of had tingles as a result of it felt like there was a resurgence of magic within the air.”
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Vince Mattis will star in Teen Wolf: The Film as Derek Hale’s son Eli, and Tyler Hoechlin was instrumental in serving to forged Vince. In actual fact, Tyler is an govt producer on the film as effectively and did all of the auditions with each younger actor who was introduced in to learn for Eli.
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“With the casting course of, I acquired to look at all of the tapes for the brand new characters, and particularly for Eli, going by these, I noticed Vince and simply, for no matter purpose, [he] felt like he was the man. We learn a number of actually proficient younger actors and Jeff was sort sufficient to let me direct them in our little chemistry reads that we did over Zoom,” Tyler defined. “[Vince] did such an excellent job on the movie and I am so happy with him and we had been fortunate to have him.”
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Additionally, Tyler Hoechlin stated he introduced his expertise as a toddler actor to the audition course of for Eli Hale. He particularly remembered how “gracious” Tom Hanks and Paul Newman had been to him when he was beginning out, and he needed to be that type of function mannequin for these younger actors.
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“I bear in mind how gracious Tom [Hanks] was once I was taking part in in Street to Perdition. I had Paul Newman. I had actually nice examples once I was a child and I am very, very fortunate for that,” Tyler recalled. “Speaking about that movie, that is often what I confer with now. How grateful I’m to have had these examples and mentors once I was that younger, so I attempted to pay that ahead and cross it on one of the best I can.”
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Tyler Posey stated reuniting with Crystal Reed on Teen Wolf: The Film was “good” and it actually referred to as again to the “starting of Teen Wolf” and the place all of the “love and fervour” for the sequence started. Tyler additionally remarked that it was nice attending to know Crystal once more as adults.
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“With the ability to work together with her once more simply introduced the whole lot again. It was simply good. It was precisely what we needed as a present. We needed to be there with one another from the very starting. So attending to work together with her once more was superior,” he started. “We have grown up since we actually frolicked with one another and so discovering out that our pursuits are comparable and simply attending to know her once more as an individual was simply superior.”
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And, Jeff David revealed that when he texted Crystal Reed that he want to carry Allison again for the film, she simply “burst into tears,” after which they talked on the cellphone and he revealed a few of his plans for the character.
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“I at all times stated if I used to be going to do a film, one of many characters I’d carry again is Allison,” Jeff recalled.
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Additionally, by way of Scott attending to see Allison once more, Tyler Posey stated, “It fucking rocks his world, dude.”
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He continued, saying, “He would not actually know what to suppose. You will see. It is onerous to say a lot.”
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Jeff Davis stated it was “thrilling” to get to carry again these characters we had stated goodbye to within the unique sequence, however he additionally needed to verify he did the characters justice and that [he] acquired the voice[s] right once more.”
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He defined that with a view to put together for the film, he went again and watched scenes from the unique sequence.
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Teasing Colton Haynes’s return as Jackson within the film, Jeff Davis stated it was “actually enjoyable to put in writing his scenes once more as a result of it is the identical outdated Jackson.”
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“He will get a number of the humor. He will get a number of the snarky remarks,” Jeff stated.
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By way of if filming the film was completely different than taking pictures the sequence, Jeff Davis stated it was “just about the identical” since they shot Teen Wolf like a film “each week.”
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Jeff joked that they had been at all times “approach too formidable” with their finances on the sequence, and that ambition carries over to the film as effectively.
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Tyler Posey’s brother, Jesse Posey, will seem in Teen Wolf: The Film. Jeff Davis teased that they gave Jesse a “humorous function” and he is “fucking hilarious.”
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Tyler joked, “My brother’s one of the best a part of the film.”
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Wanting again at his total time on Teen Wolf total, Tyler Posey stated that he owes “quite a bit” to the sequence and he has been given so many alternatives due to it.
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“Teen Wolf actually helped me turn out to be the particular person I’m in the present day,” he started. “I went by a number of onerous occasions throughout the filming of Teen Wolf. My mother handed away seven years in the past. So it was throughout the center of Teen Wolf, and simply having that be with me, not a lot a distraction, however one thing that was at all times there with me. I maintain Teen Wolf near my coronary heart, actually intensely.”
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Tyler Posey and Jeff Davis hilariously revealed that “there’s swearing” within the film. Tyler joked, “We are saying ‘fuck’ in Teen Wolf: The Film.”
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And eventually, in response to Jeff Davis, there may be already dialogue of doing extra Teen Wolf.
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After the film, the following factor you possibly can anticipate from the Teen Wolf universe is the spin-off sequence Wolf Pack, which can star Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Teen Wolf the Film will stream solely on Paramount+ quickly.
