Sarah Michelle Gellar tracks down werewolves in ‘Wolf Pack’ trailer

The official trailer for pack of wolves — the upcoming Paramount+ series starring buffy the vampire slayer Sarah Michelle Gellar, starring, launched on Thursday and gives a glimpse of what’s to come in the supernatural teen drama. Hint: Lots of growling, howling at the moon, suspicious bite marks, yellow eyes, a loaded silver bullet in a gun, and blood-smeared tree bark.

The trailer opens with some teenagers stuck in traffic on their school bus. Emergency service vehicles drive by and a massive forest fire is seen, with deer fleeing the forest in terror, and one, um, even appears to attack a person trapped in the traffic jam. Fire breaks out and at least one of the teens is shown with a massive bite to the back. “What is happening to us?” says one of the teenagers. A mysterious call comes to one of the girls in another scene, with a voice saying, “He has to find you…kill you…before the next full moon.”

We also get a clearer idea of ​​what Gellar’s character is. “We’re part of a joint task force investigating the wildfires,” she says in the trailer. “We are looking for any of the children that were on that school bus.” As for the kids, well, they seem to have bigger problems. “This is how it starts,” says one of them. “Get fangs, get claws, and then we start killing people?”

See for yourself in the trailer below:

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Gellar is also one of the executive producers of the show, which is based on the book series of the same name by Edo Van Belkom. The series is written and produced by Jeff Davis, the creator behind MTV’s teen wolf series that aired from 2011 to 2017. Davis is also on board to write and produce the upcoming Paramount+ Original Movie Teen Wolf: The Movie.

According to the synopsis of pack of wolves from Paramount+, the series will focus on a teenage boy and girl “whose lives are forever changed when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying otherworldly creature and leads it to attack a highway traffic jam beneath burning hills.” “. That pair of teens, who get injured in the chaos, find themselves attracted to each other and to two other teens who were adopted 16 years earlier by a park ranger after another wildfire. The four teenagers meet as the full moon rises, “to unravel the secret that connects them: the bite and blood of a werewolf.”

Besides Gellar, the other main cast members are Armani Jackson, Bella Shepard, Chloe Rose Robertson, Tyler Lawrence Gray, and Rodrigo Santoro. Others rounding out the cast include Bailey Stender, Chase Liefeld, Hollie Bahar, Lanny Joon, Rio Mangini, Stella Smith, Zack Nelson, James Martinez, Amy Pietz, Bria Brimmer, John L. Adams, and Sean Philip Glasgow.

pack of wolves debuts 26 of January on Paramount+.

Can’t wait for the Wolf Pack premiere? Get ready for the next series by streaming Wolf Like Me and Wolfblood on Peacock.