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Teen Wolf News 022217

Tyler Posey Joins ISIS In New Spoof
In a spoof of every teen coming-of-age film ever, Funny or Die casts Teen Wolf Tyler Posey as The New Kid in their latest effort.



The premise, - then he/she/they met him/her/them - is the jumping off point for numerous films including The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 10 Things I Hate About You, Heathers, and Almost Famous.

Laughing at Tragedy
While FoD’s set up is funny enough, the suggestion that Hollywood's “disaffected teen” stereotype would jump at the chance to join ISIS is darkly hilarious because it’s sadly true. The terrorist organization is actively recruiting the disaffected teens of the world via social media with some success.

I have to wonder if there is a cut scene somewhere in which Posey, still all smiles, took part in an infidel’s beheading or learned to construct an explosive device.

While I believe every sane person will agree that the real members of ISIS and the deadly attacks they inspire are no laughing matter, ridiculing those American teens who would join the group isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In the words of 20th-century cartoonist Frank A. Clark, “I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”

This story first appeared on https://creators.co/@PaulVRea/4210959

Someone is Casting a Lookalike for Derek’s Back
There is more evidence that Tyler Hoechlin’s Teen Wolf character, Derek Hale, will return to the show in the second half of Season 6. A production is currently casting for a “back double, ” and the picture they’re using is Tyler Hoechlin from the Season 1 “Miguel” scene in the episode Wolf's Bane. We can confirm that this is the casting agency Teen Wolf often uses, and we have already seen how the production uses such lookalikes when the actors in question are not available or no longer look the part.

Why Cast a Body Double?
If Teen Wolf is specifically casting for a "back double" it's likely for something very small. We've seen an example of this sort of thing already this season. In this scene from the Season 6 Episode Memory Found, the production put our a casting notice for a double who looked like the Stiles character back in Season 1. They used the lookalike to bridge the scene from Scott in the present into his memory of Stiles in Lunatic. In the case of Derek’s back, the request for a body double mentions the upcoming shoot is in Santa Clarita which is also the last place we saw Derek’s naked back, way back in the final episode of Season 4. The location where they shot many of the La Iglesia exterior scenes is located near Santa Clarita.

Mounting Evidence for Derek’s Return
So far, we’ve already seen that set video from fans who swear it shows Tyler Hoechlin and Dylan O’Brien playing catch on an active Teen Wolf filming location. MTV followed that revelation by chastising crew members for “leaking” information about the show even though they had nothing at all to do with this particular leak and it wasn’t even a confirmed “leak” until MTV made a fuss about it.

All this recent information isn’t conclusive, but the mounting evidence does suggest we’ll witness the return of Derek Hale when Teen Wolf returns this summer.

This story first appeared on teenwolfnews.com

Saintgnue Assault Case Update

<p class="MsoNormal">Teen Wolf actor Cody Saintgnue sued the 1 Oak nightclub, the Mirage Casino and several employees after he was roughed up during a dispute over a bogus bill back in 2014. The case was initially supposed to go to trial in Las Vegas way back in November of last year, but Judge Michelle Leavitt postponed it, first to February then again, most recently, to June. <p class="MsoNormal">Last week, Leavitt dealt a blow to Saintgnue’s case by granting a motion sought by the casino’s lawyers to bar the plaintiff from using “works of fiction” as evidence. They feared Saintgnue's team would paint a picture for the jury showing that his assault is part of a wider pattern of violent abuse against patrons in Las Vegas casinos.

<p class="MsoNormal">The 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino and Attorney Robert Nerseian’s book “Beat the Players" are specifically banned from testimony by the court's order. The movie shows uniformed casino security officers beating up someone suspected of cheating.

<p class="MsoNormal">Scorsese's Casino is historical fiction, but Robert Nerseian’s book purports to be true and apparently shows “the extent of the manipulation and corruption of security guards working at gambling establishments” as well as other examples of how casinos detain and interrogate their guests.

<p class="MsoNormal">In his legal practice, Nerseian often sues casinos on behalf of card counters or “advantage players” as they prefer to be called. He relates many of his real-life cases in the book. <p class="MsoNormal">Surveillance video shows Saintgnue being roughed up by security and led away to a casino “back room” much like the Scorsese movie. However, his case is not exactly like those presented in either of the court-excluded works.

<p class="MsoNormal">Saintgnue’s jury trial is currently on the court's calendar for June 27 in Courtroom 14D of the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Attorneys for both sides will meet for a pretrial conference on June 5.

<p class="MsoNormal">Saintgnue returns to Teen Wolf this summer for the second half of the show's final season.

<p class="MsoNormal">For more in depth coverage of this story - https://creators.co/@PaulVRea/4209142

The Death Cure Begins Filming in Two Weeks
<p class="MsoNormal">Director Wes Ball is already deep in pre-production on Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Ball says they’re working on some huge new sets down in South Africa this week in preparation for the third movie in the series. <p class="MsoNormal">The scheduled March 6 start date is just shy of one year after The Death Cure shut down in British Columbia. The production closed after Dylan O'Brien suffered a life-threatening injury while performing a stunt.

<p class="MsoNormal">Instead of returning to Canada, a senior film industry source told The Globe and Mail that The Death Cure chose South Africa. While the climate isn’t a close approximation of the Canadian spring they originally wanted, it should be a temperate enough replacement.

<p class="MsoNormal">With large studios and sound stages now running in South Africa, the burgeoning film industry there can easily handle the large-scale production.

<p class="MsoNormal">Initially, The Death Cure would’ve hit theaters this month. The current release date is January 2018.

<p class="MsoNormal">This story first appeared at https://creators.co/@PaulVRea/4209787