Teen Wolf
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2018
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
The formula for Teen Wolf was simple: low cost + fast schedule = high profit. Even still, no one could have predicted just how successful it would wind up being. Michael J. Fox's star was already on the rise thanks to Back to the Future and when this arrived hot on that film's heels, it cemented his status as a super star.
It spawned a sequel, an animated series, and a gritty reboot for MTV - but this week on HDYR, it's time to give this original dog his day.
Topics include: the insanely fast development and production, the town's complete non-reaction to the existence of a werewolf, characters the film establishes and then does nothing with, the absolutely bonkers soundtrack, the pitch for an unmade Teen Wolf 3, your Real Life Retweets, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Teen Wolf? |
| 0:06.5 | Hello and welcome, Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.8 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.6 | And today we're revisiting Teen Wolf. |
| 0:53.1 | Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Teen Wolf. Before there was a teen wolf. Before there was a teen wolf, there had to be a Valley Girl. That 1983 comedy starring Nicholas Cage was made for $350,000 and grossed somewhere around $17 million. Take a minute to wrap your head around that. As you might imagine, the studio liked that math, and they were eager to repeat the |
| 1:12.1 | formula. Enter screenwriters Matthew Wiseman and Jeff Loeb. Yes, comic book fans, that Jeff Loeb. The duo had |
| 1:19.5 | just moved to Los Angeles when they were given the chance to put together a screenplay that would |
| 1:23.4 | cost next to nothing to produce and could be shot very quickly. I'm not sure if anyone at the |
| 1:28.3 | studio was familiar with the axiom that when you want something done good, fast, and cheap, you have to |
| 1:33.1 | settle for two out of three, but I'm going to go ahead and assume that high quality was not one of |
| 1:37.9 | their chief concerns when developing this particular project. When all of this started, Loeb was |
| 1:43.3 | bartending at a TGI Fridays, and Wiseman |
| 1:45.9 | was a cashier at an arcade. Three weeks later, their script was done and Michael J. Fox was attached to |
| 1:51.6 | star. And with his involvement, the film was immediately greenlit. You know what's funny? In a strange |
| 1:57.4 | way, these two writers owe their careers to the fact that Fox's family ties co-star Meredith Baxter Bernie got knocked up. |
| 2:05.0 | Because her pregnancy pushed back filming on that sitcom, and that meant Fox now had a very small window of time where he would be available to shoot this film. |
| 2:13.2 | It was certainly a blessing for this production, but apparently the young actor did not share |
| 2:17.5 | their enthusiasm. |
| 2:18.9 | At the time, he was a little embarrassed by the whole thing. |
| 2:21.9 | In fact, during one interview, he lamented the fact that he was stuck doing this while just |
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