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'Teen Wolf' remake 'inspired by Buffy, Spider-Man'
Published Friday, Jun 3 2011, 12:09 BST | By Morgan Jeffery | 2 comments
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Jeff Davis told Blastr that he admires how both franchises "constantly ground things in reality".
"I take my cue from the Spider-Man comics I loved as a kid," he confirmed. "He was a teenager, first and foremost, falling asleep in class because he was out busy getting pictures of his alter ego Spider-Man to sell to the newspaper in order to live and afford his life."
He continued: "It's great when normal life always kind of interferes with the supernatural one, with the life of the hero."
The showrunner added that Buffy also "did such a good job with the fact that she was a high school student".
"I always loved Buffy for that reason as well," he explained. "Every now and then they were able to remind us, when Willow (Alyson Hannigan) said, 'Hey, I have a final. I can't go out and kill vampires'."
Tyler Posey, who plays werewolf Scott in the new Teen Wolf series, recently insisted that the show bears little resemblance to the 1985 Michael J. Fox film.
Teen Wolf will premiere on June 5 on MTV in the US and will air in July on Sky Living in the UK.
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