The Wolfpack [Supernatural Drama]

[Jay Paterson]

Werewolf: A curse of a human with the ability to shape-shift into a predatory beast that lives off the blood and flesh of a human

BACK STORY

In the early 1500's was the birth of the werewolf. When betrayed by the man she loved Isabella Rosa, a powerful witch put the most horrid curse on him. She turned him into, a beast of the night. Elis Wolfe was the worlds first werewolf. The Wolfe bloodline continued throughout the years creating the most powerful werewolves. These werewolves are known as Alpha's, they were born to be Leaders. A descendant of the Wolfe bloodline can recruit werewolves to from what we know as, Wolf Packs.


SERIES DESCRIPTION

“I was once part of a pack. A group of savages, controlled by their hunger for human flesh. Lycans is what we are, known today as werewolves, and there were six of us...” – Caleb Forbes

While out on a full moon hunt, the wolf pack were captured by hunters, led by a man named Ezra. After fighting a hard losing battle, all the pack had left to do is run, even if that meant leaving behind their alpha, Isaac, who was soon left for dead. With their leader gone and the hunters still tracking them down, the pack decided it would be safer for them to split up and never see or speak to each other again. Each pack member went on living their life alone, trying to stay under the radar, and on the run from hunters. That was until now;

ONE YEAR LATER, Caleb begins to have reoccurring visions/dreams of a burning woman. It comes to his realisation that the ancestral werewolf spirits, known as Munin are trying to tell him something, but what exactly? Knowing the risk's Caleb decides to rekindle his relationship with his younger brother and fellow pack member, Ryan (portrayed by Drew Van Acker), in hopes that he will help him find answers. But soon after Ryan is been tracked down by the hunters, leading to his demise and leaving Caleb with only one clue, Black Creek, a town where a werewolf is at its strongest, the birth place of the original werewolf.

As the other pack member's, Evan, Nathan & Spencer sense Ryan’s death, they stick to the plan that was; if another pack member were to die at the hands of a hunter, they will reunite in order to finally seek revenge, and stop living their life on the run. But with this new information from the Munin, Caleb and the gang head to Black Creek to seek answers and find out exactly what they are trying to tell them, in hope that it helps in defeating the hunters once and for all.


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CHARACTERS
Each member of a wolf pack has their own individual power.

Caleb Bennett portrayed by Steven Strait

(Pack Member) Caleb is the wise one of the pack, almost a father figure to the boy’s in some cases. He is very smart and knows a lot about their ancestors and what they must do as werewolves due to his power. He holds a lot of answers for the pack and may be their key to defeating the hunters. But Caleb also knows a lot of things that he doesn’t want to tell the pack in order to keep them safe, but does his intensions turn out to be good for the pack in the end? Call Munin, the ability to communicate with and call forth the ancestral werewolf spirits of the pack. Shawn generally can’t choose which Munin (werewolf spirit) comes to their call without very strict training.


Evan Channing portrayed by Cam Gigandet

(Pack Member) Evan is the wild/bad boy of the pack; he has gone off the rails since the death of Isaac (Alpha). Living alone and with none of his ‘brothers’ around Evan is starting to lose a part of his humanity, letting the blood control him more than it should a werewolf. He wouldn’t think twice about ripping someone open and having them for dinner. Evan has been so used to living by his own rules that when the pack reunites he doesn’t feel like playing nicely and starts to cause mayhem in Black Creek.Evan has the ability of a venom bite, this poison is not fatal, but does send extreme pain to the victim and even paralyzes if the dose is strong enough


Nathan Wells portrayed by Aaron Johnson

(Pack Member) Nathan is a very ‘cool’ character of the pack, unlike the rest of them he lives off of socializing and having fun. All the girls love him, and all the guys want to be his friend. He is the character that keeps all the pack youthful and fun, he gets them to do things that they would never dream of doing and in some cases gets them all into a lot of bother. Nate doesn’t like nasty/mean people and if he has his sights set on someone who does bad things he will hunt them and eat them. The ability to shield/protect himself from presence, psychic, and aura powers except the power of an Alpha's command.


Spencer Atwood portrayed by Steven R. McQueen

(Pack Member) Spencer is the quiet one of the pack, who never really has much to say for himself and lacks a lot of confidence. He usually just tends to follow what the rest of the pack are doing even though a lot of the time he feels it’s wrong. Spencer feels being a werewolf is a horrid curse and suffers from slight depression because of it. He would give anything just to be a normal guy. But he keeps this a secret from the pack because he fears they will turn on him. The ability to heal other people by licking their wounds (this power is mostly only common with werecats but Spencer is a crossbreed between werewolf and werecat.


Cassie Young portrayed by Amber Heard

It’s been almost 2 years since the death of Cassie's father and boyfriend after they had both been killed in an animal attack known as the Black Creek Massacre, which took the lives of many. She was once a very happy and popular girl in Black Creek, but  since has shut herself off from the world letting no one in except from her family and best friend Makayla. Cassie has became a protective figure in her families life as she let go of her plans to go to Stanford University to look after her mother and sister after their fathers death. But now attending her local college BCU (Black Creek University) she is about to embark on a journey she never dreamed of, as Caleb and the rest of the pack enrol at BCU. Cassie soon finds herself intrigued by Caleb mysterious personality and can't help but want to find out more, even if that means finally letting someone in.


Makayla Myers portrayed by Lyndsy Forseca

Makayla is an outgoing, sassy, confident person, which is why she Cassie's best friend. Noticing that Cassie has drastically changed since her fathers death Makayla makes her mission to try and get Cassie to enjoy herself again, like they used to in high school. Makayla has also suffered a loss from the Black Creek Massacre, her twin brother Jack, although she seems to be dealing with it and trying to move on with her life. Unlike Cassie its was always Makayla's plan to stay in Black Creek and attend BCU while her long term boyfriend, Dominic works at his fathers garage. But her fun college life isn't turning out as expected when she finds out dark secrets involving her family and werewolves.


Ezra (The Hunter) portrayed by Callum Blue

After his son was murdered by a werewolf Ezra went on a path of revenge. He trained with a group of werewolf hunters and now is tracking the Wolf Pack. But after he killed the Alpha he has lost track of the rest of the pack and heads home to his town of Black Creek. But his journey of revenge is far from over. He is still working with the other Hunters to track down the werewolves one by one.


Freya Young portrayed by Phoebe Tonkin

Freya is Cassie’s younger sister, who is going into her junior year at black Creek High school. Since the death of her Father Freya has adopted a rebellious persona, partying and drinking alcohol, even to the point where her mother sent her to live with her grandparents in hope that she would get better. Back home and ready to become a junior, Freya puts up a front that she’s okay and back on track, but that’s far from the truth. And when alcohol is mixed with the dark secrets that lie in Black Creek, Freya soon feels out of control, to the verge of insanity.

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Reoccurring Characters

Professor. Lucien Grey portrayed by Rhys Ifan
Lucien is a professor at Black Creek College. When teaching human evolution Spencer starts to work closely with him to try and figure out if there is a cure for his 'curse'. It comes to his realisation that Lucien knows all about werewolves and supernatural creatures as he agree's to help Spencer with his quest.

Riley Langston portrayed by Jessica Szohr
Alice is a freshman at BCU, and current reporter for BCU newspaper. When a fellow freshman goes missing, Alice investigates into her disappearance which soon reveals a much darker side to the town of Black Creek.

Dominic Parker portrayed by Nico Tortorella
Dominic is Lexie’s long term on and off again, ass hole of a boyfriend. Who instead of going to college decided to work with his father at the garage. When the pack arrive at Black Creek Dominic takes a sudden disliking to them and makes it his mission to run them back out of Black Creek.

Jacob Foster portrayed by Jared Padaleki
Jacob is searching for his missing sister, but when he has a bump in with Caleb, he begins to suspect that something isn't right there so he begins digging for answers.

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SHIFTING
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EPISODES


1.01: Pilot
After the sudden death of pack member Ryan, the pack decide to reunite again after 1 year of being on the run. They arrive at Black Creek after finding out some important news which may help them defeat the hunter's once and for all. But the boys aren't the only people harbouring secrets in Black Creek as the begin to discover that this town is far from ordinary. And after 1 year apart the Wolfpack seem to clash making their time together a bumpy ride.

1.02: Wolf Hunt
The pack find themselves in a spot of trouble when Evans actions lead them to the threat of exposure. The boys must now work together to stop this threat before they become exposed and have to leave Black Creek without finding the answers they came for. Meanwhile, Spencer struggles to deal with his curse, Nathan does a little digging on the towns history & Makayla doesn't wake up in her own bed?

1.03: The Girl Who Cried Wolf
It has become clear to the pack that Evan has come off the rails since the death of their alpha and he is starting to cause trouble in Black Creek. His next victim, Amanda, an outcast who he manipulates and tortures, who will believe her? Meanwhile Caleb is having visions and dreams, the Munin are trying to tell him something, but what? & Nathan has a feeling this isn't the first time he's been in Black Creek.

1.04: Trespassing
Makayla invites the gang to her parents lake house for the weekend of their lives, but when the Wolfpack arrive they soon find themselves to be trespassing on another pack's territory. Now with the threat of an attack they must protect themselves without exposing who they really are to their new friends. Meanwhile Freya makes an unexpected friend and finds out something life changing.

1.05: Catacombs
1.05: Massacre  
1.06: Unleash the Beast (Mid Season Finale)
1.07:  Homecoming
1.08: coming soon
1.09: coming soon
1.10: coming soon
1.11: coming soon
1.12: coming soon
1.13: ?? optional thirteenth episode

(due to revamping the plot the episode summary's have been taken away to change)

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• As the show progresses i would like to introduce other mythical/supernatural creatures such as witches, demons, shapshifters, maybe vampires etc.
• As well as sticking to some of the routes of werewolf mythology the series will establish some of its own along the way.


- Just wanted to say how excited i am to be finally pitching a show to vpn, i've been a member for about a year and have been looking forward to doing something like this so i'm excited to see what you guys have got to say. i know the story needs a little work and i have to complete the episode summary's but i love feedback and constructive criticism so i would love to know what people think of it so far

[The Doctor]

I have to say.....I LOVE this pitch. It has a great cast. And it also shows the different sides to each memeber of the pack

I also love the actors/actressess that you picked for each character. Good luck

[Jay Paterson]

thanks Khurdjr17 (i'm sorry i dont really know peoples names around here)
i really like the cast i chose, the story line is still a little vague for a pitch but i'm still working on it i'm excited to see what you guys think. :)

[The Doctor]

The names Karl.hahaha.
And yeah. It looks VERY promising. I cant wait to see the completed Pitch

[Jamison]

I want this -- like, right now. Werewolves have ALWAYS interested me, and when done right -- they are amazing. I'm so glad you've pitched this show, and I really like the premise. While the central storyline is a bit narrow, I can definitely see you widening the universe as the show progressed. I think this is promising.

Nice characters, and cast. I'll definitely be following this pitch

[Jay Paterson]

@karl thanks, i'll be working on this pitch a lot in the next couple of weeks so look out for updates :)

@chris thanks for the feed back. it wasn't until recently i got into werewolves but i have done LOADS of research since then to try and make my version of werewolves seem more realistic. As you have said the central story is very narrow and it does need a lot of work, so i am working very hard to try and build a solid story. Also i have already started thinking of ways to widen the universe and think there are so many possibilities. :)

As expected i think this series will be highly compared to shows like teen wolf and the vampire diaries, but unlike the werewolves in those stories i feel like my werewolves are a lot darker. Staying true to the original werewolf mythology these werewolves will hunt and feed on human's as just like vampires blood is like a drug to werewolves, they do get addicted so i will show the struggles 'that i think' a werewolf would go through if they were real creatures.

[Amin]

I like this pitch a lot. I'm all for the darker type of main characters (The main dude eats people, so yeah... xD) and the cast you've got is quite nice. Only two things that bug me:

-School. Why do all these shows have to feature the main "Insert Supernatural creature" attending public school? I've grown so tired of that concept, no offense.

- The title. I think "The Pack" might work better. It describes the show well enough without being blatant about it (which the current one kinda is, with the word "Wolf" in it).

That's all for me. Carry on!

[Jay Paterson]

@amin thanks for the feedback apreciate it a lot :) i was getting sick of shows in which the main supernatural character is nice like in teen wolf, the vampire diaries (stefan) etc.. so i just wanted to do something a little different and maybe make people think werewolves are scary again.

i completely agree with your first point, the original idea was to make the wolf pack on the run which means they would be travelling a lot to different city's/towns but that made it harder to create other lead characters other than the pack so that's why i chose the idea of them attending university. I will try and think of other ideas in which i can have other leads without making it too cliché because i do want this series to become as original as it can be.

as for the title, i am starting to warm to the name 'the wolfpack' even though as you said it is pretty blatant but i do think it works because it give the reader/watcher a sense of what the shows about without having heard anything about it.

[Deleted]

New member around here, so I just read this, but I wanted to say that I am definitely excited to see it continue. Werewolves and basically all supernatural creatures have always been interesting to me so I enjoy the initial premise of the show. I am excited to see the darker side of werewolves not seen in Teen Wolf and The Vampire Diaries, and I am glad that you are making your werewolves original to your story. Keep up the great work, I look forward to seeing more.

[Jay Paterson]

I had planned to get this pitch finished over the Christmas holidays but there is one part of this story that is bugging me and that is that they attend university. As i and Amin have said above this whole supernatural creature attending school is so cliche and boring now i want to bring something new to my show. I feel that what i have planned for the characters and some of the stuff that's going to go down is pretty original and thats the main reason i want to continue this its just where do i place my characters?

So instead of them in a town going to school, what else can i have them do? ideas are welcome guys? or even id you could help me on some of my original idea's here are some other ideas that i had..

1) To have the pack on the run, they would be in different town/citys every week etc. i found this to be a problem as i don't know how to involve any other main characters apart form the pack? (really don't think this idea would work out)

2) To have the different characters live separate lives in different places after the murder of the alpha, this way we would be cutting to five different lives in the show. This would be interesting but it would have to many characters and as a TV show i don't think it would work. as a book maybe but TV show? i just don't think so

They were the only other ideas i had other than going to school but recently i have been thinking of some better ideas its just trying to build the story around it.

I was thinking that after the reunite in the town of black creek Sam takes the pack to his house out in the wood. Sam has shut himself out from the world but when the pack come in to town they start to mess things up for him by heading out into the village and cause mayhem? getting the know the locals and making names for themselves..

please tell me what you think guys. i really want to put my all into this show and make it the best it can be without it being too cliche

[Jamison]

I personally believe that number 2, having the character living separate lives, may actually work. It worked with shows like "Heroes." It will take more planning, developing and it would be more difficult, but it could have a huge pay off if done right, I think, especially if you tie in all those storylines so that they connect with one another at some point in time. "Heroes" did however have many different places they could take the show, and this show would have to be able to expand in order for it work. But that would be very interesting.

I'll try thinking of some additional ideas I really liked this pitch, and I'm glad you're still pursuing this idea.

[Amin]

^This definitely. I love split-up ensemble shows. ;D

[Aimee Nicole]

I definitely second Chris and Amin on your idea. Also, I apologize for not having spoken in here sooner. I love supernatural stuff, especially when it's done right. So many people do it wrong these days, but this show you have here definitely looks promising. Nice premise, nice characters, and while it doesn't matter much at all I love the graphics you have. Really eye-catching XD Just thought I'd throw that in there.

[Deleted]

Just flipping through the series pitches and noticed this one. I love the pitch really interesting story, and characters. I love the idea of having them living these seperate lives. I think that's a real unique idea. I really hope you pursue this series cause I would definitly be interested in reading it!! I also noticed your casting of Danielle Harris. I too casted her in a werewolf series I pitched here. I guess great minds think alike LOL. Anyhow best of luck, and I look forward to the pilot!!

[Jay Paterson]

Thanks Darren. I am making drastic changes to this series and its taking forever to put together. I am trying my hardest to make the separate lives idea work i just keep getting faced with another hurdle every time i think I've got it figured out, so i am still unsure as to what direction i am taking it. Really? Danielle Harris is awesome!

& thanks Aimee, Amin and Chris for trying to help steer my show in the right direction. As i said before there's been a few problems trying to come up with the separate lives idea but i like the idea that much that i i'm still trying to figure it out, if it does fail though then i have been planning a back up idea.

[Kat Q]

This idea is probably one of the most creative I've seen on the VPN. I like the characters, they're well mapped out, and I think Violet will be somebody I would like to read the most of! The pitch itself caught my attention, as did the title, "the Wolfpack", it's bold, loud and definitely straight to the point. The characters really scream at me, which is always a good thing! I can clearly see this becoming its own universe, similar to Buffy or Charmed, and I like the idea of separate lives, however I'd have them come together at one point!

I'd also like to see some conflict with vampires, witches etc. I think that would be really good, and it would also give us an idea on how you can imagine these creature. Very well done, and the best of luck coming your way, I hope!

[Brady Brown]

I'm sorry I haven't posted on this pitch before! xD Because I really enjoy it!

I think you've got a very interesting, creative story. One of the most creative on the VPN I've seen by far. And I really think a LOT of people could get into it. Because I know we have a bunch of supernatural fans here.

I also like you're characters. Their personalities seem individual, and I think they can bounce off each other well, and could make for some great dialogue.

Basically, this is great. This is something I think you could go far with, and would love to see a pilot for it! ;D

[Jay Paterson]

@katq wow thank you for you kind words. A lot of people prefer the idea of having them live separate lives but i feel my mind just cant handle it. I've try it so many ways and it doesn't seem to be working out. So the best thing is to settle them down in the town of Black Creek which i now have more of a reason for putting them there. I have plans to introduce other supernatural creatures such as vampires and witches but i'm not completely sure if they will make an appearance in season 1 (maybe witches but definitely not vampires). In season one my main focus is the battle between the hunters and the werewolves so when i do introduce these other supernatural characters it would more likely be in season 2. Thank you for your support .

@brady Haha its ok, it pretty far from done anyway. Thank you i'm really happy that people think that this pitch is that creative and interesting i didn't expect to get this sort of feedback since its my first pitch and I've never done anything like this before. I'm glad you like the characters, i have made all of them have very different personalities so they could bounce off of each other, and put them into all sorts of situations. They didn't choose to be together, the Alpha chose them so of course their not going to be alike. Thanks for taking a look at my pitch & leaving feedback it really means a lot. I hope to get the pilot started ASAP. I have most of the story lines for season 1 its just a case of putting them together and what episodes they should happen in. ;D