Teen Wolf News Archive
You'll always find the very latest news from the set of Season 5 on our Teen Wolf Behind the Scenes Page.
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Dead Characters Return
Looks like Hayden and those other chimera resurrected during the Midseason Finale aren’t the only formerly dead characters that will be back for the second half of Season 5.
This week we saw Donovan (killed in the Library with a steel pole) and Theo’s dear departed sister return to set. This info comes to us via casting notices for stand-ins for actors Ashton Moio and Makenna James.
In the case of young Miss Raeken, they were looking for someone who is “comfortable in the water” which suggests she’ll appear in a flashback to the night she died.
Also, behind the scenes this week, we saw the beautiful redhead killed on the McCall’s kitchen island but this time she was alive and kicking.
You can see that spiky fingers there is a bit of a crispy critter now thanks to her trip to the Nemeton in the strong, flaming arms of Jordan Parrish. If you ask me third-degree burns are a small price to pay for such an honor.
Waterfront Wolf
You can add another, truly historic, location to the Teen Wolf Universe as cast and crew made use of the historic Municipal Warehouse No.1 on Signal Street inside the Port of LA.
Construction on this site started back in 1916 and was completed in 1917. Touted as the largest such warehouse west of Chicago, the building became the “welcome sign” for folks arriving to the city by sea and is currently on the National Historic Registry.
There are plans to turn this area into an ocean research center called AltaSea which will house research ships and scientists and will be the future home of Elon Musk’s “Space X rocket retrieval ships.” Currently though, it’s just an abandoned-looking warehouse next to the water.
It’s hard to say just what the production needed at this location. They have a warehouse exterior back at Teen Wolf HQ in Northridge and we don’t have any images from inside Warehouse #1 to see what unique features it might offer. We do know that Dylan O'Brien, Tyler Posey, the Dread Doctors and actor Jordan Fisher were on site. Fisher plays the blood-drinking chimera Malia fought during the midseason finale.
This is the second time they’ve shot around the Port of Los Angeles in Season 5. Last time, for episode 508 Ouroboros, they were just over the Main Channel at the Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant. It doubled for both the Russian location where Deaton met the Desert Wolf and the tunnels Scott, Malia and Mason searched when they were looking for Hayden and Liam.
Teen Wolf Season 5 resumes in January with new episodes airing weekly on MTV.
Teen Wolf Tumblr Top 10
Looks like the semi-organized effort in some corners to kill Teen Wolf’s social media buzz failed spectacularly in Season 5.
Eonline.com is reporting that Teen Wolf was the third most popular fandom on tumblr for the whole summer. Throughout most of its weekly run on MTV the show ran second only to the wildly popular Steven Universe as top TV fandom in the world.
You can see the weekly report from tumblr fandometrics
Teen Wolf Wikia on Facebook
I’ve settled my long-standing, and sometimes bitter, feud with Mark Zuckerberg. This means that Teen Wolf Wikia updates are now available in your facebook feed. You’ll find us at www.facebook.com/TeenWolfWikia .
We also post frequent news updates, behind the scenes images and other random ish at our Teen Wolf Wikia tumblr and twitter accounts.
Posey is Staying
Several of the more questionable news sources cranked up the rumor mill on Wednesday with stories claiming that “Tyler Posey Might Not Star in Teen Wolf Season Seven.”
According to Executive Producer Jeff Davis and Tyler Posey, these rumors are completely baseless. Scott McCall is NOT leaving Beacon Hills.
Most of the “reporting” was the same clickbait schlock we’ve come to expect from sites like “Realty Today,” “Design and Trend,” and “Christian Post” but even some of the usually reputable sites like “Seventeen” fueled the false information as well.
Teen Wolf News usually just ignores these false reports, taking a “caveat emptor” approach and answering fans' questions directly as they come in. In this case though, both Posey and Davis reached out to reassure fans that those reports are mostly false.
I say “mostly false” because, as with most damaging rumors, there is a grain of truth in all these stories.
It started back on August 24th, when "The Hollywood Reporter" published a post mortem on the first half of Season 5. In that interview Jeff Davis was asked directly about the future of the show past Season 6.
- Q: Do you think the show will probably wrap up after season six?
- JD: I have no idea. [Laughs] Who knows if [that] will be the last season or not. [But] beyond season six, I’d love for someone else to take over the show. If it still has life, if there’s still stories to tell, that would be great — [to] see maybe Dylan Sprayberry take over the role of the Teen Wolf and see Tyler Posey move into more of a Derek Hale (Tyler Hoechlin) role. That would be the Degrassi High version.
For some reason, weeks after this was published, many of the aforementioned “news” outlets picked up this statement and, in what I will generously assume was a failure of reading comprehension, thought Davis was addressing Posey’s future on the show.
Posey tweeted about the reports on Wednesday, “Teen Wolf is my baby and I would never leave.”
Davis, in an email to Teen Wolf News, addressed the rumors directly, “When I said ‘beyond season six, I’d love for someone else to take over the show,’ I was talking about me!”
Once Season 6 comes to an end, Davis will have been piloting the Teen Wolf ship for eight years and says he might like a new Executive Producer to step in and take over for any potential future seasons.
While Davis can see himself moving away from Beacon Hills, he says he doesn’t see Scott McCall going anywhere. “I can’t imagine Teen Wolf without Tyler Posey,” Davis says.
News Sources you just can’t Trust
As a public service here is a list of the “news” sources that tend to get it wrong, steal and republish stuff from other sites or just make sh*t up about Teen Wolf.
- The Inquisitr
- International Business Times
- Design & Trend
- Enstarz
- Christian Post
- Realty Today
- Cambio
- Venture Capital Post
These are not the only sites that make up clickbait headlines and “repurpose” content from others to make money but these are the ones picked up by respected news aggregate sites like “Google News” and therefore are the ones most likely to cross your screen.
Now, many of the sites above do publish legitimate news on other sections of their websites but, for some reason (MONEY) when it comes to their entertainment news, their Teen Wolf stuff is mostly crap.
Dishonorable Mention
Usually he does quite a good job with interviews and updates but for some reason CarterMatt.com has begun headlining every single article “Teen Wolf Season 5 Episode 11 –“ no matter what the story is actually about. This is more annoying than misleading at this point but don’t get your hopes up if you run across it.