Wolf Pack is coming to Paramount+, and Jeff Davis will get another bite at that juicy apple that was MTV’s Teen Wolf. Wolf Pack’s first trailer just dropped and we’re excited to see a whole new group of teens fall prey to their supernatural powers under the shadow of a blood moon. As stated, Jeff Davis, creator of Teen Wolf, will return to tell his tale of werewolves, but this time, he’ll be adapting a novel of the same name by Edo van Belkom.
The Wolf Pack trailer gives us our first good look at how we can expect this series to go down. From the looks of it, the Paramount+ series will take a different spin than what the books have provided. The series was announced alongside Teen Wolf: The Movie, but Buffy the Vampire Slayer herself has told us that Wolf Pack will occur in a separate universe from Teen Wolf. That’s right, Sarah Michelle Gellar is producing Wolf Pack alongside Davis and numerous others with prior werewolf experience. So, get ready for some epic teenage werewolf action as we break down the supernatural trailer for Wolf Pack.
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Prey on a School Bus
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The trailer opens on Everett, played by Armani Jackson, sitting on his bus, headphones on, just trying to zone out on his way to school. Then all of a sudden, the bus lurches, and all the kids run to look out the window. Outside, a wildfire rushes closer to the highway and a herd of stampeding deer runs out of the forest, slaughtering people trying to escape the flames and adding to the chaos. Before one of his friends can tell Everett that “there’s something out there,” the nameless student is sucked into the blinding smoke by some unseen monster.
This is the inciting incident. We learn later in the trailer that there are other forces at work searching for the kids that were on this bus. It also displays how Davis plans to make his adaptation different from the Wolf Pack book series. In the novels, the story revolves around four half-wolf half-human children that are found as “cubs” and raised under the watchful eye of a park ranger and his wife. In Davis’ version, this terrible wildfire conceals a monstrous creature that bites two of the kids on the bus. As they begin to turn, they meet two other teen wolves. Apparently, they have been wolves for some time, but hesitate to tell them their secret, even though now both of them share this curse of lycanthropy. They’re brought into the proverbial wolf pack, and their journey under the moon begins.
Sarah Michelle Gellar is on the Hunt
In the next scene, we see Sarah Michelle Gellar in her role as Kristin Ramsey. She’s a detective part of a special task force investigating these mysterious wildfires, and she’s looking for anyone who was on their school bus. Arthur Garbe, playing another police officer, approaches one of the kids offering her his help. It seems that there might be another side to this story as the teens try to avoid being killed, and the cops try to hunt down this monster they don’t understand. Whether the cops are on the wolves’ side or not remains to be seen, but the teen wolves start getting into a lot more trouble.
All four wolves come across an overturned car with someone terribly bloodied inside. As Everett promises to pull her out of the wreck, we hear a horrifying scream as she’s dragged away. As corpses are hauled off and the music intensifies, Gellar’s character reassures herself that what they’re looking for can’t be “a seven-foot-tall monster.” Then we see her and Garbe’s character searching through the night, guns and flashlights at the ready as they discover trails of blood and hear deep animal-like growls coming from the dark.
Passions flare for the teen wolves at a party and shots of them growing closer are intercut with a cop loading his gun with silver bullets. In one clip we see a park ranger coming across a wolf cub hiding in a hollow. In the books, the wolves weren’t teenagers until the second novel in the series, so Davis may have taken this opportunity to merge the storylines of the first two books. Two teen wolves must have been found in the woods as babies, and two became wolves in this terrible attack. Some people must be trying to protect the wolves and others must see them as a threat.
The teen wolves’ lives get complicated as self-defense and murder pervade romance and new friendships. They are hunted by monsters and werewolf killers while they’re just trying to live their lives. Their shocking transformations make them uncertain of their identities. And while they must be afraid of giving in to the wolf inside them, their friends remind them that now they’re part of a pack.
We’re excited for Jeff Davis to bring us all the high school drama and werewolf violence we’ve grown to love so much. Wolf Pack comes out on January 26 on Paramount+.
