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Sarah Michelle Gellar's Teen Wolf Show Is Better Than A Buffy Return
Alongside a Teen Wolf: The Movie release, Sarah Michelle Gellar's role in the upcoming Paramount+ production Wolf Pack has been confirmed, and it will be far better than a Buffy The Vampire Slayer return. As Gellar returns to the supernatural realm it gives the new Wolf Pack show an even greater boost. Not only will audiences of Teen Wolf flock to the new production, but so will those who look for some Buffy nostalgia. It is a genius move - but not just for this reason.
The show was announced at Comic-Con 2022 and is confirmed to star the iCarly reboot star Bella Shephard and Chad actor Armani Jackson. Sarah Michelle Gellar's involvement with the new project was only recently established, much to the pleasant surprise of Buffy audiences. Wolf Pack will follow two teenagers who are caught in a wildfire and injured by a supernatural creature. As they discover they were, in fact, bitten by werewolves, their journey turning into the mythical supernatural creatures promises similar themes to Scott McCall's adjustment to werewolf life in MTV's Teen Wolf.
Where Gellar's role comes in is as an arson investigator of the aforementioned wildfire, and it seems a much better option for her than a Buffy return, both professionally and in relation to the Wolf Pack plot. As the two bitten teenagers team up, they encounter another pair of werewolves. These two are the adopted children of a park ranger who experienced a similar aberration 16 years prior, perhaps related to events of Teen Wolf. Gellar's role in this interconnected series of events surely confirms a greater range for the actress. The type of tension this could cause between Gellar's arson investigator character and the park ranger could be interesting.
Sarah Michelle-Gellar Is Perfect For Wolf Pack
Sarah Michelle Gellar is not only perfect for Wolf Pack because it offers the actress a little more professional range. It is also the perfect role for an actress who has been so involved in supernatural canon before. Gellar's experiences with Buffy will only serve to heighten her dramatic performance as she encounters the supernatural. Whether Gellar's Wolf Pack character will exhibit the same stubborn, yet upbeat personal characteristics as Buffy Summers is yet to be confirmed. Her previous experiences with the supernatural - albeit on screen- will stand her in great stead.
The Buffy series would be better served with a whole reboot, given how it ended. While Teen Wolf has a few loose ends to tie up, the Buffy series ended as the entire vampire army turned to dust when Spike sacrificed himself to save Buffy and the Potentials. Hence, a reboot with Gellar as a character would not fit well in a series that came to such a conclusive finale, even if it was set years later. However, at the ending of the Teen Wolf series finale, Scott and the other werewolves engaged in a battle to coalesce the supernatural and human worlds. With Gellar starring in Wolf Pack, such a conflict between humans and the supernatural is sure to continue.
