After being approached by MTV with the thought of rebooting Teen Wolf, collection creator Jeff Davis mentioned he watched the unique 1985 film starring Michael J. Fox. Realizing the community hoped to enter the scripted market with an enormous collection, he questioned what tone they had been hoping to strike. Did they actually desire a TV present about basketball impressed by the “dated” movie?

Davis discovered inspiration in The Misplaced Boys and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, hoping to be “attractive, suspenseful, scary and humorous,” he detailed. “I largely was solely all in favour of doing it if it may even have a humorousness and jokes, or, not less than, have a way of irony. And never be so totally critical like all the opposite teen reveals that had been popping out at that time.”

Earlier than writing the pilot, Davis additionally learn the primary two Twilight books. Whereas he understood why teenage women—MTV’s desired demographic—was into it, he discovered the story “melodramatic.” For Teen Wolf, he needed the viewers to “be laughing one minute after which scared s–tless the subsequent.” 

Nonetheless, MTV had one main notice once they learn the pilot script: “‘There must be extra sexiness. Each single scene have to be oozing with intercourse,'” he recalled. “I am sitting there considering to myself, ‘Would you like the scene with Scott and his mother to be oozing with intercourse?!’ Each single scene?!’ However they had been like, ‘That is how we draw an viewers.'”

As he recalled, “I keep in mind seeing the primary trailer and considering to myself, ‘OK so, they’re promoting it similar to Twilight. We’re f–ked.'”

Fortunately, he was improper.