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The legacy of Michael J. Fox and Jason Bateman are about to be tarnished a bit by the Twilight movement. Or at least, that’s how the history books will remember it — if in fact, it makes it into the history books.

MTV has assembled a cast for its upcoming television remake of Teen Wolf, the reinvention of the classic 1985 guilty pleasure that his been called the “most average movie of all-time” by members of this site. We hold it so dear that it has become the basis for the rating system employed by Reject Radio. And like any average movie from the 1980s, or popular teen novel series, this movie needs more teen abs.

Providing the abs and angst will be Tyler Posey (pictured above), Tyler Hoechlin, Crystal Reed and Dylan O’Brien. Posey will play Scott McCall, a dorky high-school student who gets a rush of new powers, including the ability to attract girls, after a wolf attack. O’Brien will play Scott’s best friend who is initially dismissive of Scott’s theory that he was bitten by a wolf but then begins research on human-werewolf transformation. And Reed will play a sweet new girl at school who is immediately smitten with Scott.

It all seems ripe for the picking for MTV, a network that has cornered the market on teen angst. Once focusing on music and the videos that were created from it, the network has since turned into the 24-hour Twilight network, as evidence by its MTV Movies Blog, which has soiled the good name of the term “movie blog” with its unwavering whoring for the teen series. Now this show (thank your lucky stars that its on TV, and easily ignored) will fit in perfectly with their direction. A direction that will find it far away from mainstream audiences, and just about anyone who loved the original Teen Wolf. Go MTV, indeed.