Warning: This story comprises spoilers for Teen Wolf: The Film.
Did this werewolf story lose its chew? Teen Wolf’s return to Beacon Hills was meant to supply solutions — however left followers asking extra questions.
The MTV sequence, which premiered in June 2011, adopted Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) as a younger werewolf who needed to band collectively along with his fellow misfits to guard his small California city from supernatural creatures and harmful threats. The present, which ran for six seasons and concluded in September 2017, was an instantaneous cult traditional, leaving viewers wanting extra from their favourite wolfpack.
In September 2021, Paramount Plus revealed {that a} reunion movie, directed by Russell Mulcahy and written by sequence creator Jeff Davis, was within the works. The supernatural thriller, which debuted on January 26, 2023, options Scott and his pack again of their hometown 15 years later to face an outdated nemesis — and defend Beacon Hills from a well-recognized menace.
When information of the revival first broke, followers have been immediately curious which characters would present up within the undertaking — particularly Arden Cho’s Kira (who mysteriously disappeared throughout season 5) and fan-favorite Stiles Stilinski, performed by Dylan O’Brien.
In February 2022, Deadline reported that Cho declined to return for the Teen Wolf revival after she was provided half the per-episode wage of her three fellow actresses: Shelley Hennig, Holland Roden and Crystal Reed. (Reed, for her half, was returning as Allison Argent after exiting the present in season 3.)
“I believe I used to be truly provided even much less,” Cho stated when requested about her wage throughout an interview with The Minimize on the time. “I most likely would’ve by no means shared it. … I may most likely, off the highest of my head, consider over 10 Asian American actors I do know who have been paid considerably lower than their counterparts. Generally you don’t have a option to say ‘no.’ Generally you simply want it. You’ve acquired payments to pay. I wasn’t saying ‘no’ essentially for me or as a result of I used to be indignant. I used to be saying ‘no’ as a result of I hope that there might be extra equality sooner or later.”
Whereas Cho initially turned a sequence common on the supernatural sequence in season 4, she was abruptly reduce from the story, telling The Minimize that “there wasn’t room for Kira.”
After the movie premiered, nevertheless, eagle-eyed followers rapidly realized that the Accomplice Observe alum’s place had been stuffed by one other character, Hikari, performed by Amy L. Workman. Although the character of Hikari can also be Asian American, Kitsune and sort like Kira, there isn’t any clarification of who she is or how she turned part of Scott’s pack. The character merely seems, leaving audiences to surprise if she is a stand-in for what ought to have been Cho.
Following Cho’s assertion on her resolution to not return, O’Brien took to social media to indicate his help for his former costar by “liking” a fan remark through Twitter in February 2022. “Arden stated, ’nah,’” the tweet learn, alongside an excerpt from her interview with The Minimize.
One month later, the Not Okay star revealed that he made the “tough” resolution to not reprise his position as Stiles.
“Lots went into it,” the Love and Monsters star defined to Selection in March 2022. “The present couldn’t be extra expensive to me. It was the very first thing I ever did I and so many individuals there are extraordinarily expensive to me. It was one thing I used to be making an attempt to make work however it all occurred very quick. We didn’t actually know that it was occurring and so they sort of simply threw it at us somewhat bit, which is okay as a result of all of us love the present. We have been making an attempt to determine it out.”
O’Brien defined that he in the end felt like his character was “left in a very good place” and he wished to “nonetheless go away it there,” however “wished them nicely” and can be watching “the primary evening [the movie] comes out.”
“I hope it f—king kicks ass, however I’m not going to be in it,” he quipped.
Davis, for his half, instructed Collider in August 2022 that the film would “reference” the First Time star’s absence. “I believe we will’t do the film with out paying tribute to the character Stiles. So he comes up in multiple state of affairs,” he shared.
The Wolf Pack creator additionally famous that Stiles’ love curiosity, Lydia (Roden), can be given a “massive storyline” about their relationship that followers may “look ahead” to watching unfold.
Nevertheless, when Lydia returns to Beacon Hills within the movie, she reveals that she and Stiles have known as it quits when a dream a few deadly automobile accident left her fearful for his security. After breaking apart with him with a view to hopefully save his life, she finds herself heartbroken and unable to entry her supernatural powers. Whereas she finally finds her voice, the twosome’s break up leaves questions in its wake: Was it a dream or a premonition? Is Stiles nonetheless destined to die both approach? Will they ever reconcile?
Scroll down to search out out what questions have been answered — and what we nonetheless want solutions to — following the Teen Wolf film.
