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 Teen Wolf News 021716



 Parrish Dead the Whole Time?

It was a complete “What Tha F*(&!” moment this week when the Hellhound announced that Deputy Jordan Parrish was dead and had been dead ever since he got all blowed up in Afghanistan. Here’s the dialogue from those scenes all squished together –


 * Lydia – Jordan?


 * Parrish – No.


 * Lydia – Okay. Who am I talking to?


 * Parrish – Cerberus, Garmr, Black Shuck. I’ve had many names.


 * Gerard – How bout Jordan Parrish?


 * Lydia – Do you know who I am?


 * Parrish – The Banshee.


 * Lydia – What about Jordan Parrish? Why is it you and not him? What happened to Parrish?


 * Parrish – Jordan Parrish died. There is no Jordan Parrish.


 * Lydia – What are you talking about? How is Parrish dead?


 * Parrish – He’s a body, a means to an end. I am beyond life and death. I am infinite. I have no use for your deputy.


 * Lydia – But we do. We need him.


 * Parrish – Your deputy won’t kill the beast.


 * Lydia – Neither will you. I’m a harbinger of death too. I know people are going to die and, if you do not let Parrish in, he will die too. You’ll die! You have a chance with Parrish. You need him.


 * Chris – Lydia tell him to remember.


 * Lydia – What?


 * Gerard – Tell him to remember the moment Parrish died.


 * Lydia – When did he die?


 * Parrish – When I was born.

It appeared from Cerberus’ flashback that it all happened simultaneously with Scott, Allison and Stiles taking their ice-bath-death-trip back in Season 3.


 * Parrish - ~ROAR~


 * Lydia – Are you all right?


 * Parrish – I know who I am. I know what I have to do. I have to leave.

That’s it. As is standard with Teen Wolf, we get 3 questions for every answer.


 * Is Parrish actually dead with the Hellhound just wearing his meatsuit?


 * When he says “leave” does he mean he’s leaving town or giving himself over to the Beast completely?


 * What happens to Parrish if the Hellhound is no longer needed?

 Crystal Reed Back to Teen Wolf

Next week’s episode marks the return of former cast member Crystal Reed. She’ll be playing one of Allison Argent’s ancestors and going toe-to-toe with the Beast in 18th century France.

Synopsis –
 * Hoping to align with a familiar ally, the Argents reveal a key clue to the mystery of the Beast of Gevaudan. Meanwhile, Scott tries to take on the Beast himself.

Check out Maid of Gevaudan (Episode) for more on next week’s show.

 Teen Wolf on FANDOM

WIKIA has launched a new entertainment news site called FANDOM. Teen Wolf News is contributing stories to the site and this week we did an interview with Executive Producer Jeff Davis on the birth of Teen Wolf and some of the reasons why the show is still kicking ass after all these years.


 * Even after all the pieces were in place, after putting together an excellent cast of familiar faces and undiscovered talent, Davis says they worried that their translation of Teen Wolf would be met with derision.  “There was definitely a worry about the brand and the title. We were all well aware that we were essentially making the Twilight version of Teen Wolf. There was no way to get around that comparison. We were also aware that as brilliant as Battlestar Galactica was it never quite got the viewership it deserved because of its title.”

Check out the full story at Fandom.com - http://fandom.wikia.com/articles/teen-wolf-came-still

 Season 6 Filming Starts Monday

According to actor Linden Ashby and Executive Producer Jeff Davis, the Teen Wolf cast will return to set on Feb. 22 to begin filming Season 6.


 * @lindenashby: And yes, I’m obviously in a Mexican prison. Hopefully they’ll let me out by the 22nd so I can film the new season. #fingerscrossed

Ashby is joking about the Mexican prison but Davis confirmed with Teen Wolf Wikia that Feb. 22 is the date they begin the next 20 episodes of Teen Wolf.

This presents a big question for many fans. How will Dylan O’Brien film Teen Wolf in California starting on Feb. 22 and still manage to begin filming The Maze Runner: Death Cure in Canada starting on March 14? The answer seems to be “We’ll make it work.”

Davis has repeatedly explained that O’Brien’s schedule will be adjusted in such a way that he will be able to appear in both projects. “Obviously we have to work around his movie schedule but you’ll see the story we’ve come up with,” Davis said in a recent interview. “I think it’s going to make everyone pretty happy.”

While filming will begin next week, we still won’t know for sure who will make it out of Season 5 alive. So far, we’ve only been told Tyler Posey, Dylan O’Brien, Dylan Sprayberry and Shelley Hennig will be on set for the next round of shooting starting on Feb. 22.

 Backstage with John Posey

Teen Wolf’s John Posey (Conrad Fenris) is back on stage in Los Angeles through March in his one man show Father, Son & Holy Coach. Teen Wolf News talked with the actor just before he went on stage for opening night of the play that has been a constant in his long and successful career. John Posey got a degree in creative writing from the University of Florida but says he then stumbled into acting, “It worked. Whatever I did, I was booking stuff.” He was “discovered” doing a sketch comedy show in Atlanta. Someone from ABC was in the audience and decided Posey should be on network television.

<p class="MsoNormal">The move was not only a big step for his acting career, it was also the birth of “Father, Son & Holy Coach.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“This play grew out of a small monologue for those ABC people. They actually said, ‘Hey. If you can give us four minutes of your best work. We think we may want to sign you to a contract.’ What I wrote became this piece. I didn’t want to give them a piece they’d seen a hundred times before so I wrote this.” <p class="MsoNormal">Posey did not get his ABC series but the network folks did give him a good piece of advice. “They said ‘You really should tackle that. You’ve got something important going on there.’ So I went to New York in 88, 89 and 90 to work and study. I wrote this over a period of time and actually opened it here (in LA) in the early 90s about the time Tyler was born.”


 * “The play welcomes viewers to Tupelo County, Georgia, where even the local Easter egg hunt takes on legendary, Super Bowl proportions. In Father, Son & Holy Coach, Friday night football is the motif that illuminates a father and son’s journey gone hilariously off the rails. Over the course of 85 minutes, John Posey, who confesses he was shaped by a complex and conflicted relationship with his own father, seamlessly portrays over two dozen different characters - the entire town of Tupelo.”

<p class="MsoNormal">The play scored rave reviews when it debuted in 1993 and while Posey has now appeared in more than three dozen television and movie roles, the play remained a constant in his life. “It’s been off and on for more than 20 years. I toured it for a couple years, east coast, west coast, from Florida to Denver to Dallas, San Francisco. I put it down. I put it back up again. I sold the screen rights to it three times. Then I retired it.”

<p class="MsoNormal">The play stayed retired for eight years until tragedy struck the Posey family. “After my dad died and Tyler’s mom passed away last year, Tyler and I were talking and thought, let’s put this piece back up. It’s something we can do together. We’ll make it a family thing.” <p class="MsoNormal">With sons Tyler and Jesse producing, they did a test run over this past summer in a bare-bones rental theater. The response was overwhelmingly positive so Posey decided to do a new, full-blown production. “This will probably be our last run in LA but I wanted this one to be the best. I brought in probably the best theatrical producer in town, a great director (Terri Hanauer) I’ve known for years, some great sound and projection.”

<p class="MsoNormal">He says the show, at its core, is the same as it ever was but this new production combines projected images and filmed segments to create an immersive multi-media experience. “It’s amazing what you can do with projection and sound and lighting,” Posey told Teen Wolf News on opening night. “Now it’s a lot more cinematic. With projection nowadays you almost feel like you’re watching a movie so I’m real excited to get this one off the ground tonight.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Posey says this will likely be the last chance for LA audiences to see Father, Son & Holy Coach on stage. In addition to showing off his acting skills, an HD video of this latest production will serve as a sizzle reel for John Posey the writer. “Lots of good can come from it. People find me as a voice that they might want to bring in to write things for them. We focus back on the film rights; people get excited again when they see the reaction to the play.”

<p class="MsoNormal">He sees two paths forward for the production from here, a possible new national tour or the long-delayed screen version, “I sold the screen rights to this three times, first to Sony and then some smaller companies. They never quite figured out what the story was so it didn’t get made.”

<p class="MsoNormal">He’s optimistic that, with the wealth of new digital film technology that reduces production costs and a growing number of platforms available for original filmed content, it could make it to screen this time. Posey says if it all comes together soon we may see a familiar face fronting the project. “If we get this movie done in the next year Tyler can maybe play the lead which is a high school senior like he’s playing now.”

<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to the play, Posey’s career is as busy as ever. He just finished shooting scenes for Altitude (2017) with Dolph Lundgren and Denise Richards. He’s also working with a co-writer to put together a new pilot for television which is already garnering some interest from producers. “I’m having as much fun now as a writer as I am as an actor. We’ll just see what falls my way. When you start to get my age, you need to keep all the doors open in case one gets slow so I keep tackling all three.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Father, Son & Holy Coach is running now on weekends through March 20th at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2055 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles. You can get more information and tickets at http://holycoach.net

<h2 style="padding:0.2em 0.4em; margin:0 0 -20px 0; font-family:Century Gothic,serif; color:#778899; font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;"> Is Dr. Fenris Dead?

<p class="MsoNormal">I couldn’t let John Posey off the phone until I’d found out a little more about the recent fate of his Teen Wolf character, Conrad Fenris.

<p class="MsoNormal">Fenris first appeared in the Season 1 webseries “Teen Wolf: Search for a Cure” and immediately established himself as an expert in all things werewolf.

<p class="MsoNormal">We later saw him running the “special ward” at Eichen House, a job he held until one of the patients, Dr. Valack, escaped his cell and took over the hospital. Valack has since appeared as Fenris but there’s been no sign of the real Conrad since the series returned in January. According to Posey, “He’s still around. He’s still hiding down there in the basement somewhere.” <p class="MsoNormal">The actor also hopes the character will return in Season 6 so he can work with his son in a new capacity. “Tyler said, ‘Hey, I’m directing an episode this year.’ I said it better be the episode that Fenris is in because I want you to yell at me on the set.”