Never mind vampires -- the Fox network is looking to get back into the werewolf business, developing "Howl," from DreamWorks TV.Two ways this is gonna go. Either it's going to be a Twilight rip-off with tons of shirtless men walking around sullenly and growling at each other, or it's going to be good and creepy and action-packed. If the latter, if will be canceled after three episodes. If the former, it will last for five seasons. Sigh. The terrifying art of Twilight's menacing werewolves is by Sparrowspaz.Project is being written by Joshua Miller and M.A. Fortin. DreamWorks TV toppers Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank would exec produce.
"Howl" is described as an epic family saga about warring families of werewolves in a small Alaskan town.
"Alaska is a place where people disappear and now you know why," Miller said.
The script reflects the changes that are going on in the country, and "metamorphosis and constant change is the basis of werewolf mythology," he added. "Howl" is about "the psychology of living with change."
Comments
Tierney said:
I didn't watch it the first time when it was called Wolf Lake and aired on CBS.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 11:34:12 AM
JETierney replied to Tierney:
Good lord, another Tierney? And jaded from bad scifi? Half wondering if I just got drunk and forgot I posted this....
Posted 12/08/2009 at 01:34:29 PM
Strangeman said:
Didn't FOX already have a show called "Roar" with Heath Ledger? Hasn't there already been a show about warring factions of vampires? Wasn't there already a movie about vampires in Alaska? Didn't it make more sense that vampires would live in a place where the nights are longer? How can a werewolf go shirtless when it's 30 below?
Posted 12/08/2009 at 11:35:05 AM
Bugdodger replied to Strangeman:
These logical questions you ask are all reasons why you'll never make piles of money like those TV/Movie execs do. Logic doesn't sell.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 11:39:06 AM
Greg replied to Strangeman:
Yes! And because of all that track record somebody at Fox decided to steal the idea, tweak it very slightly, and call it new. Hence "But she has a new hat!"
Posted 12/08/2009 at 03:08:14 PM
Arcane replied to Strangeman:
Meyer Werewolves can go shirtless when it's cold because their bodies produce a high amount of heat. Their average body temperature is 108 degrees fahrenheit and they don't seem to lose much of this heat in cold weather.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 07:11:44 PM
Brion said:
It's Fox. This show will never succeed. Unless they make it into a Sunday night cartoon.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 12:11:04 PM
Sigue said:
This is going to be a Twilight ripoff and it upsets me.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 12:18:07 PM
Jack Furlong said:
already been done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Lake
sometimes shows on "Chiller" channel in the US
Posted 12/08/2009 at 12:28:03 PM
Bill said:
If it's a cool werewolf show, Fox will place it on Friday nights, pull it off the air during November sweeps, and the network won't commit as to when the remaining episodes will air...hoping viewers will just forget it existed.
If it's a lame Twilight ripoff, look forward to YEARS of this nonsense.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 12:36:22 PM
Tha_Fame said:
Didn't they do the whole werewolf family soap opera thing with that show that had La Bamba Lou Diamond Philips? Or is that the Wolf Lake show everyone has mentioned? If so, ignore the first part of this comment for repetitiveness. I put money on them doing a CW type show, only way it'll make money in the exec's eyes. Because if it was actually good, and people got into it, the show would be dead after 5 episodes.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 12:36:58 PM
operations said:
Damn it all. I still like werewolves (Think Dog Soldiers or Ginger Snaps). I got sick of Vampires in the Late 90's/early 00's. Too much.
Now I'll end up hating Werewolves too.
Maybe they can leave Mages/Wizards and Mummies alone for me...
Posted 12/08/2009 at 01:22:23 PM
Geoff replied to operations:
LOTR and Harry Potter haven't made you sick of wizards yet? Impressive.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 04:07:42 PM
somebody said:
It actually has nothing to do with Twilight at all. It's the fact that following vampires, werewolves are supposed to be the next big thing (It's that whole 20 years rule). Did everyone forget about the Wolfman remake coming out? They're just trying to capitalize on that.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 01:30:14 PM
Dr Rotwang! said:
"[M]etamorphosis and constant change is the basis of werewolf mythology [.]"
Oh! Thanks. Here I was thinking it was all about, you know, the bestial nature of man, and the fear thereof and so on. Sorry, FOX!
Posted 12/08/2009 at 01:33:46 PM
Baltimoron said:
Remember when Fox briefly tried to adapt "Vampire: The Masquerade" into a television show?
Wouldn't it be awesome if this show was going to be based on "Werewolf: The Apocalypse?"
A family of white separatist Get Of Fenris werewolves lords over an Alaskan compound of human kinfolk. Each episode features them blowing up a dam or tearing in half a camper who failed to pick up his litter.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 01:38:40 PM
Dr Rotwang! replied to Baltimoron:
*snicker*
I was always hoping FOX would follow up their V:tM show with a Mage: The Awakening series, but I was soon glad that it never happened.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 02:04:09 PM
Arcane replied to Baltimoron:
Yech, make it W:tF instead of some Captain Planet Furries
Posted 12/08/2009 at 07:31:31 PM
John said:
Why do you list only two directions this show could go (Twilight rip-off or good and creepy)? Have you not been watching TV for the past five years? :)
The execs will turn this into:
3 parts Lost + 1 part X-Files + 2 parts FLashForward + 1 part Northern Exposure + 5 parts Twilight = hit show! :)
... for 3 episodes when the show gets cancelled and replaced with yet another night of "Who Wants to be an American Idol and Dance with Stars?" talent show. :(
Why do the people at FOX even bother teasing us with shows like this when we know they're just biding their time until the next "big thing", no-cost reality show comes along?
Posted 12/08/2009 at 02:59:04 PM
Geoff said:
I'm not the only one who thinks the only reason this is set in Alaska is so that they can film it outside Vancouver on the cheap, right? I mean, seriously, ALASKA?
Posted 12/08/2009 at 04:08:47 PM
mrfood said:
Fox had show called Werewolf 1n 1989 and Chuck Conners was in it.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 04:37:23 PM
Nicnac said:
Excuse me... did you say twilight has shirtless MEN in it? Last I checked, 40 something year old women were rushing to New Moon to check out shirtless 14 year old BOYS...
Posted 12/08/2009 at 04:50:16 PM
Arcane replied to Nicnac:
Sure, and James Van Der Beek was in high school when Creek was filming
Posted 12/08/2009 at 07:44:20 PM
Nicnac replied to Arcane:
Taylor Lautner was born in 1992 which means when New Moon wrapped he was 15 or 16 at the time. There are younger actors in New Moon then him...
Your point?
Posted 12/09/2009 at 12:56:01 PM
Arcane replied to Nicnac:
And there are older actors in New Moon as well, and Lautner isn't getting any younger. Robert Pattinson, also shirtless in film, is playing a character the same age(physically) as the one he played in Goblet of Fire.
Taylor's got a squeaky weasel voice, but he's got a body that's nothing to be ashamed of. If anything, it's a symbol of hard work. Nobody's having sex with him, even if 16 is the age of majority in many states.
Did you have a point? I'm losing track of what I'm defending my statement against.
Posted 12/10/2009 at 04:25:46 AM
demoncat said:
no doubt its a rip off of twilight focusing since the were wolf is becoming the next big thing. and knowing fox it will be canceled as fast as possible
Posted 12/08/2009 at 05:59:42 PM
CChaos said:
Heh, I remember Wolf Lake. They cancelled that after, what, half a season? If that?
They're trying so desperately to find a show that's going to get some high ratings that I'm betting some pretty good money that all the stars will be young male and female werewolves who basically end up as eye candy while spewing off dialogue about who they are and that nobody can stop them from being together, etc.
Hell though, read through their description and tell me this: does this not sound like a little Romeo and Juliet was added into the mix? Warring families, probably some forbidden socializing, etc?
Posted 12/08/2009 at 06:02:50 PM
Sarah said:
Lol. Shirtless boys running around in ALASKA.
I hope all the actors get hypothermia.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 07:02:53 PM
The Shadow said:
"Alaska is a place where people disappear, and now you know why."
Insert your Sarah Palin joke here. Better do it now, because on the week the show premieres, the nation's TV critics will be elbowing each other in the face to get THEIR Sarah Palin jokes published first.
Posted 12/08/2009 at 08:28:47 PM
Baltimoron replied to The Shadow:
That's because Sarah Palin is fucking hilarious.
Posted 12/09/2009 at 09:06:36 AM
Nikademus said:
For some reason that picture is making me think of the Jonas brothers, and that makes me sad :(
Posted 12/08/2009 at 10:51:47 PM
cocacolaoso said:
*sign* It seems no classic monster will be spared from the Twilighfornication of its images and myths: it's all about the emo melodrama, the corny romance & shirtless teenagers + *insert your classic monster here*.
Epic sad face!
Posted 12/09/2009 at 12:10:17 AM
BS said:
I'd watch it if Michael J. Fox played lead and there was basketball involved.
Posted 12/09/2009 at 02:31:11 AM
Sparrowspaz said:
I don't care if you used my picture to make fun of some werewolf thing because its old and given I agree that its badly drawn and retarded. Twilight was a thing I was into in 6th grade. I've grown up since then. So try getting permission before using my (crappy) pictures.
Posted 12/09/2009 at 04:52:25 PM
Arcane replied to Sparrowspaz:
So you don't care or you want permission?
Posted 12/10/2009 at 04:27:06 AM
Anonymous replied to Sparrowspaz:
"Twilight was a thing I was into in 6th grade" what was that 18 months ago kid? haha.
Posted 12/11/2009 at 10:11:33 PM





