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Teen Wolf News 110617

Teen Wolf Fam: Where Are They?
With the end of the series, the hundreds of folks who made Teen Wolf for us have scattered all over the entertainment industry. It’s tough to keep up with what a lot of the “below the line” folks are doing because they don’t have teams of publicists and legions of fans updating their IMDB pages, but we have managed to find out what some of our favorites are up now that they’ve left Beacon Hills.

I don’t get to stay in touch with Jeff Davis as much as before, but we managed to catch up last week, “Hey Paul, I’ve been good! Was off on vacation for a little while but getting back to work now. We handed in the first draft of WOTW (War of the Worlds), and the network is very happy with it. Andrew Cochran (Shape Shifted) is working on a polish of the script now, and we’ll hand that in as soon as we can. I have a few other things going on now. There’s nothing I can talk about yet, unfortunately.” One of my favorites in the Teen Wolf fam, Costumer Danny Flores, is now working on one of my favorite shows. Flores is dressing the cast of HBO’s Silicon Valley. I imagine there is a lot less blood and fewer bullet holes to deal with in his new gig.

If you’ve been impressed with the lighter tone of The Flash this season, some of the credit goes to Teen Wolf writer and co-executive producer Eric Wallace. He joined the scarlet speedster’s writers’ room, helped develop the season story arc, and penned the first episode of the season.

Lindsay Sturman is co-executive producing on the pilot episode for a TV series based on George RR Martin’s 1985 sci-fi novella Nightflyers. The show started production at a studio in Limerick, Ireland last month and is expected to be a combined SYFY and Netflix product. Russell Mulcahy wrapped production on a movie about fellow Australian Errol Flynn. The film is in the weird post-production stage where you don’t hear anything about it for months, but In Like Flynn is slated for a 2018 release.

Everybody’s favorite production assistant Bill Gibson seems to be working on every single show simultaneously. He worked on the new Shelley Hennig/Pete Ploszek series Liberty Crossing. He also did a few days on Heathers and [TITLE REDACTED]. Bill appears to be the grindingest guy in the biz. In the midst of all this, he also found time to make a series of short films that show off his ‘unique’ sense of humor. His most recent efforts are on his brand-new "Five Arms" YouTube Channel and feature Jessie Posey (also the younger Posey is naked).

Check out Five Arms YouTube here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwKOkO5_iHWNfRNzMvHZ3OA?app=desktop

Make-up artist Carleigh Herbert worked on American Horror Story: Cult with Colton Haynes and completed the new Insidious movie as well as the Marvel’s New Warriors series pilot.

Director and Script Supervisor Kate Eastridge is also working on a Marvel show. She’s behind the scenes on the first season of Runaways, which debuts on Hulu November 21.

Sam Childs moved from Teen Wolf over to YouTube Red as Unit Production Manager on the Rhea Pearlman comedy Me and My Grandma.

Unfortunately, we’ve nothing brand new to report on our friends Tim Andrew, Angela Harvey, and Will Wallace. We’ve also come up empty on new projects for Christian Taylor, Cinematographer David Daniel, or Costumers Barbara Vazquez and Adam West. Again, these lists are incomplete mainly because there’s just not as much out there about the folks in production. Feel free to hit me up in the comments if you know what any of the former Teen Wolf crew are up to!

GLOW Hits Town
TWN confirmed that Netflix women’s wrestling comedy GLOW landed in Beacon Hills for filming this week. As Teen Wolf News reported earlier this year, the Beacon Hills sets are still standing, and different productions are renting the space if they need a high school or hospital or subterranean tunnels. The new show Heathers filmed there a few months back. Several smaller productions have been in and out since then, but GLOW is by far the biggest name to come through the Teen Wolf stages.

It’s impossible to be sure, but it looked like GLOW used the Beacon Hills Hospital set for just a couple of days. It might also have been one of the home interiors (McCall or Stilinski), which would require more extensive redressing for the period show.

If you’ve not seen GLOW, I highly recommend it. Set in the ‘80s, it tells the almost true story of a women’s wrestling basic cable show called Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. It’s funny and sweet and chock full of the girl power. Season one is available on Netflix now. GLOW on Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/title/80114988

‘Jane’ Fans React to Posey
<p class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf Tyler Posey’s Jane the Virgin character was always going to be a tough sell. While the writers gave him a compelling and beautiful backstory as Jane’s first love Adam, it was felt by many that his arrival was way too soon after the death of Jane’s true love Michael, and, as expected, there’s been a bit of fan backlash toward the “new” guy.


 * <p class="MsoNormal">@TammymTate - Just started catching up on #JaneTheVirgin... who is Adam and why is he here? #TeamRafael


 * <p class="MsoNormal">@Chee_mwe - We don't like Adam. You can push him onto us but nah <span style="font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji"">💅

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji"">Of course, Posey has a real ear for romantic comedy and is at his most charming in this role. It also helps that the writing of Adam and Jane’s relationship is superb. Many fans of the show (as opposed to fans of Posey himself) have embraced the couple.


 * <p class="MsoNormal">@Simii24 - Adam though... <span style="font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji"">😍 #JaneTheVirgin


 * <p class="MsoNormal">@Ashley_Belair - Jane and Adam are too perfect <span style="font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji"">😭 #JaneTheVirgin


 * <p class="MsoNormal">@jayseeo - I’m obsessed with this season of #JaneTheVirgin. Jane and Adam <span style="font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji"">😍😍😍

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji"">Some have embraced him very loudly …


 * <p class="MsoNormal">@njnic23 - OMG MATEO AND ADAM'S TIME WARP DANCE I AM DYING #JanetheVirgin


 * <p class="MsoNormal">@_paigekimble - TEAM ADAM AND JANE FOREVER <span style="font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji"">💕💕💕 #JaneTheVirgin


 * <p class="MsoNormal">@jamievllr - JANE! WHAT. ARE. YOU. DOING?!?!?! ADAM IS ENDGAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #JaneTheVirgin

<p class="MsoNormal">Still, it’s tough coming into a show as a brand-new face in the fourth season. It’s even tougher when they slide you into bed with the title character, but Posey seems to be winning folks over.


 * <p class="MsoNormal">@kimehh23 - I miss Michael, but I’m loving Adam. <span style="font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"SegoeUIEmoji"">😭 #JaneTheVirgin

<p class="MsoNormal">You can watch Tyler Posey on Jane the Virgin on Friday nights at 9PM on The CW.

Colton Gets Hitched
<p class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf News congratulates Colton Haynes on his recent marriage to celebrity florist Jeff Leatham.

<p class="MsoNormal">The whole wedding was pretty much amaze on all levels, I mean, the queen of the Kardashians officiated, you can’t get much more lux than that.

<p class="MsoNormal">Guests included Sofia Vergara and husband Joe Manganiello who sat with her Modern Family co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson and his husband, Justin Mikita. Colton’s American Horror Story co-stars Billie Lourd and Leslie Grossman attended as did his Teen Wolf co-stars and close friends Holland Roden and Dylan O'Brien. <p class="MsoNormal">Colton’s family was also in attendance. “Having my mom walk me down the aisle was honestly the most emotionally beautiful thing I've ever experienced,” the groom explained on Instagram. “The speeches from my brother Clinton Haynes and Ally Maki made me cry yet again lol. What a magical weekend I won't stop talking about until the end of time.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s just a little of the coverage the couple garnered after their big day.

<p class="MsoNormal">PEOPLE mag exclusive images - http://people.com/tv/colton-haynes-jeff-leathams-wedding-photos/officiant-kris-jenner/ (warning: it’s one of those stupid slideshows that everybody hates)

<p class="MsoNormal">Some celeb guests’ social feeds - http://www.eonline.com/ca/news/890058/inside-colton-haynes-and-jeff-leatham-s-star-studded-wedding

<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/BbHVJ6kg-Xt/?taken-by=jeffleatham

<p class="MsoNormal">Colton’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/BbAK1caDqv_/?taken-by=coltonlhaynes

Holland’s Next Show: Channel Zero
<p class="MsoNormal">Holland Roden's post-Teen Wolf work is trending toward the scary side. Her single episode spot in the docudrama LORE debuted to much fanfare last month on Amazon, and her next part is a bloody turn in the SYFY anthology series Channel Zero. The show brings to life the urban legends known as “creepypasta.” In the first teaser for Holland’s season, Butcher’s Block, things look kind of gross TBH. <p class="MsoNormal">The show is very loosely based on a series of stories first posted on Reddit by Kerry Hammond under the omnibus title “Search and Rescue Woods.” Hammond’s writing deals with supernatural events witnessed by a forest ranger including the appearance of staircases to nowhere in the middle of nowhere. According to showrunner Nick Antosca, “Butcher's Block comes from my fascination with the staircases as a metaphor and a starting point. Who made the staircases, what are they for, where do they lead?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Channel Zero is a reunion of sorts for Roden and Antosca, he co-wrote Teen Wolf episodes Restraint and Venomous during the show’s second season. Butcher’s Block also includes science fiction royalty in the personage of Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, Batman Begins, Sin City), episodes begin airing in 2018.

<h2 class="MsoNormal">Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Hollywood

<p class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf Charlie Carver added his voice to the chorus of #MeToo recently when he admitted that he also faced career pressure of a sexual nature from older and more powerful men in the industry. “I’m not a stranger to it,” he said during a Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network awards event. “There are many other people who have experienced way worse in terms of harassment, but I can identify and empathize with anybody who has gone through it.”

<p class="MsoNormal">There’s a reason why jokes about casting couches are as old as Hollywood itself. The fact that one might have to go along to get along or sleep their way to the top or ~insert cliché euphemism here~ is just how the entertainment industry works. Yes, I said “works,” present tense. Publicly, we have reached a critical mass of intolerance for such behavior, but in private the business itself and the dynamics that allow predators to continue preying has not changed.

<p class="MsoNormal">Despite the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, and whoever might get exposed next, don’t expect things to change. People in power will continue to make vague, mostly empty promises about career help in order to bed otherwise unattainable people. Some of those folks won't take no for an answer. Those who speak out about the more aggressive come-ons will continue to be labeled as “difficult” or “crazy," and casting directors will avoid using them.

<p class="MsoNormal">No matter what happens to Harvey, Kevin, Bill and the rest, they will continue to get paid fabulous sums of money every time you buy, rent, or otherwise engage with the shows and movies they’ve produced. And as you read this, another teenage cliché from the middle of the country is getting off a bus or a plane in Los Angeles. Next week they’ll be at a party in the Hollywood Hills or at a bar in Silver Lake listening to an over-the-hill “producer” making promises.