Teen Wolf was originally a movie, and was released in 1985. It starred Michael J. Fox as a high school student. He discovers that he is a from a family line of werewolves. There was a sequel and an animated series that also were introduced in the 1980s. In 2011, Jeff Davis picked up this storyline, and turned it into a live action TV series which airs on MTV. Although some key points of the storyline were changed, the TV series still pays tribute to movie in many ways.