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Teen Wolf News 071817

Are You Ready For The Final Ten?
Teen Wolf’s last season beings in less than two weeks. Teen Wolf News has collected everything you need to know to get ready for last ten episodes of the show including just how much bigger and longer the series finale will be.

There be spoilers ahead so turn back now if you want to enter the season like the proverbial babe in the woods.

Walk Into My Parlor
In the immortal words of Imagine Dragons - first things first. The first of the final ten episodes is Said the Spider to the Fly. It does involve spiders as we saw in the first trailer when Lydia encounters a giant web. We have also learned that Theo will have an encounter with a creepy crawly that comes from inside his own shirtless body. Said the Spider to the Fly airs at 8 pm on Sunday, July 30 on MTV and the MTV app. It will be available for purchase through Amazon Video and iTunes as well.

Hey! I Remember You!
By now you know that a veritable… Wait. What does one call a group of hunks? Is it a school of hunks? No? Well, it is Teen Wolf so, I guess I’ll call it a murder of hunks. You know, like a murder of crows?

By now you know that a veritable murder of hunks will be returning to Beacon Hills in the coming weeks. Executive Producer Jeff Davis tells Teen Wolf News that we will see returning star Tyler Hoechlin in the premiere alongside Dylan O’Brien. The rest of the alumni will be sprinkled throughout the season. We will also apparently see Jill Wagner return (for a third time) as Kate Argent. We only saw a flash of her in the trailer, so it is still unclear how big of a role the werejaguar will play in the plot.

Wait, Who Are These People?

Certain corners of the Teen Wolf fandom absolutely HATE change, so the announcement of four new stars joining the Teen Wolf Universe resulted in some less than kind words exchanged on social media. Of course, those of us with home training know better, and we welcome the newbies with open arms.



So far we know that Sibongile and Andrew are hunters while Casey Deidrick is a new Hellhound. Froy Gutierrez’s Gabe character is still a mystery. We also don’t know much about the part that young Benjamin Wadsworth will play in the finale. We do know his character is named Alec and he’s only in that one episode.

That Guy Has No Skin Y’all!

Back during filming, Jeff Davis promised to present “our grossest stuff". The leaks from the set and what we saw in the trailer seems to bear that out. This is apparently what the crew dubbed “The Faceless”.



We also saw another horror, this overly exfoliated guy, in behind the scenes images earlier in the year. He appears in the trailer too with glowing purple eyes.

<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to MTV’s slackness in updating their website, we do not have an official synopsis for the season. But, hey, they still have Arden Cho listed as “cast member” on that website 15 months after she left the show. So, really, what do you expect?

<p class="MsoNormal">Even without help from the people paid to promote the show, we are pretty sure the season hinges on some supernatural force that inspires fear and maybe comes from another dimension. Davis told us a while ago that the writers took inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft, which means we could get anything from mad cults worshiping otherworldly gods to a grotesquery of monsters that haunt and feed upon an unsuspecting human race. Good times!

<h3 class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf: Longer, Harder, And Uncut

<p class="MsoNormal">In case you have not heard, Teen Wolf episode 620 is the last one ever. As you might expect, Jeff Davis personally oversaw the ending of the show he began crafting back in 2009.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It was a challenge,” he told me in a phone interview last week. “The most challenging thing was writing 620, which tries to wrap up the storylines for like 20 characters.”

<p class="MsoNormal">He says stuffing all that into the 42-minute average episode proved impossible. '''“I can probably tell you - MTV might be pissed if I announce it - 620 will be an extended episode. Right now, our edit is 50 minutes.”'''

<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to the extra time, Davis tells me he got just about everything he wanted in the end. '''“I’m really happy with the last scene. I had this idea for the last scene a long time ago, and I thought to myself, ‘I really hope this works. I hope this plays out.’ It feels like a really good series finale. It carries the message of the show forward.”'''

<h2 class="MsoNormal">Dylan O’Brien Gets Some American Assassin Hype

<p class="MsoNormal">British entertainment magazine Empire has a tiny little feature about Dylan O’Brien in their August issue. They have a few shots from the set and talked briefly with the star.
 * “Spider-Man has nothing on Dylan O’Brien. Empire is watching O’Brien as American Assassin’s hero Mitch Rapp evade local heavies by nimbly scaling a vent like your friendly neighbourhood counter-terrorist operative.”
 * “’I was worried about being able to pull this off,’ he concedes of the strenuous action beats. ‘It was a challenge to find my feet in the training. Funnily enough, I did get into the knife-throwing. It gets really addictive trying to find your distance, find your rotations and get it down.’”

<p class="MsoNormal">The magazine is, I believe, only available on newsstands in the UK. You can check empireonline.com to see if the feature makes it onto their digital platform or subscribe to the mag via Amazon.

<p class="MsoNormal">Dylan’s new action flick hit’s theaters worldwide in September.

<h2 class="MsoNormal">One Last SDCC For Teen Wolf

<p class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf actors and Jeff Davis will be on stage in the historic Hall H at San Diego Comic Con this week. Tyler Posey, Dylan Sprayberry, Shelley Hennig, Cody Christian and Khylin Rhambo will join Jeff. We have also come to expect a couple of surprise guests at these things too. Last year it was Cody, JR Bourne, and Ian Bohen. <p class="MsoNormal">Holland Roden will likely not be there. She is currently in Montreal working on Channel Zero for Syfy. There’s no word on Dylan O’Brien making an appearance yet either. It’s possible, but unlikely unless something radically changes at this point. <p class="MsoNormal">We don’t know what they have planned this year, but it is a big hall, and it’s not like MTV blew the budget on a booth this time around (they don’t have one), so they could afford to do something epic if they choose.

<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s what’s coming this week. Thursday at 2 PM (5 PM in the east) we’ve got the big panel for an hour. That will include the release of a new trailer. MTV has, in the past, also released the trailer online at the same time, so be watching for that.

<p class="MsoNormal">There is, as of now, no live stream of the panel announced. We also expect finding videos from the panel to be difficult after Lionsgate and SDCC cracked down on our one reliable source of panel footage last year. We’ll keep our fingers crossed, but it may be up to the fans inside the panel to keep us informed of any earth-shattering or life-changing announcements.

<p class="MsoNormal">On Friday morning, some of the cast will do a 45-minute autograph signing session at 10 AM in the Fox Home Entertainment Booth #4229 on the main exhibit floor.

<p class="MsoNormal">Then, in the press room on Friday morning at 11:30 AM, the various media outlets will get to interview whichever stars are still available and Jeff. This is when we can actually count on some fresh videos and information from the cast.

<h2 class="MsoNormal">Check Out Angela Harvey’s New Gig!

<p class="MsoNormal">I’ll be honest; I wasn’t expecting much from the CBS show Salvation. It’s about a planet-killing asteroid heading to Earth and the MIT grad student who figures it out before it’s too late. I’ve seen this movie. We’ve all seen this movie, so why oh why would we watch this show?

<p class="MsoNormal">There’s also the fact that CBS’s attempts at summer sci-fi are hit or miss. I loved Braindead last year and was eventually able to get into Under the Dome, but Zoo and Extant just annoyed the bejesus out of me so, again, why give Salvation a shot?

<p class="MsoNormal">Angela Harvey is attached that’s why!



<p class="MsoNormal">Harvey is Teen Wolf family since the very beginning when she was an assistant to Executive Producer Joe Genier. Harvey is also responsible for writing some of the best episodes in the series including The Sword and the Spirit, Time of Death, and Frayed.

<p class="MsoNormal">I honestly don’t even know what she’s doing on Salvation. IMDB is silent on the subject. I just saw her name listed as a “producer” in the credits of the first episode and said, “Welp, I guess I need to watch this now.”

<p class="MsoNormal">Turns out, Salvation is actually pretty good. The pilot has our intrepid MIT guy enlisting the help of super-rich Elon Musk guy to save the world while shadowy and incompetent government guys try to keep our impending doom a secret and fail at every attempt to stop the giant rock from squashing us. It airs on Wednesday nights, and you can always see it at CBS All Access.