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Sarah Michelle Gellar Is On The Hunt For Werewolves In Wolf Pack Trailer
Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in the trailer for the upcoming Paramount+ series Wolf Pack. Based on the book series by Edo Van Belkom, Wolf Pack centers around two teenagers — Everett (Armani Jackson) and Blake (Bella Shepard) — and chronicles what happens as their lives are forever changed in the wake of a California wildfire that awakens a terrifying creature. The teens are wounded in the chaos of the attack, finding that they're inexplicably drawn to one another, and also drawn to two fraternal twins that experienced similar circumstances. With a new moon rising, the group works together to find out about the secret that connects them.
Although it's created by Teen Wolf executive producer Jeff Davis, and deals with some of the same supernatural elements, Wolf Pack is not a Teen Wolf spinoff. It takes place in a different universe, allowing the show to create its own mythology and rules. Gellar, who helped define the genre television with her title role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will play arson expert Kristin Ramsey. She'll be joined in the cast by Rodrigo Santoro, Chloe Rose Robertson, and Tyler Lawrence Gray.
Along with its panel at the 2022 New York Comic-Con, Paramount Plus released a teaser trailer for Wolf Pack. The preview for the show, which debuts January 26, 2023, highlights Gellar as Ramsey. It also introduces Everett and Blake, leaning heavily into the premise's potential for horror. Gnarly wounds are lingered on, wolf marks seem to be everywhere, and there might even be a monster with two heads. Check it out below.
Can Wolf Pack Please Both Teen Wolf & Buffy Fans?
Gellar, who is also an executive producer on Wolf Pack, has said that she had no plans to return to the supernatural horror genre. She explained that she receives way too many pitches in that direction. She was eventually won over by Wolf Pack's similarities to Buffy and how it tackles problems facing high schoolers today. This is an approach that Buffy popularized, using monsters and demons as metaphors for high school and then adulthood. To an extent, Teen Wolf followed in that vein and garnered comparisons to Buffy during its run.
It's too early to say if Wolf Pack will work on that level. But given the names involved both in front of and behind the camera, there's cause for intrigue. That's doubly the case because the project marks Gellar's return to television and her first major live-action role in almost a decade. That's enough to give the series a headstart when it arrives in a few months. The rest will depend on whether the story can grip audiences, especially in a busy streaming space when new shows are always debuting and returning.
