MTV’s reincarnation of the 1985 cult comedy Teen Wolf as a weekly television series is inching closer to reality.

In January, Music Television announced the project as part of its development slate. After seeing the script, MTV bosses have picked it up as a pilot presentation, The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Tuesday.

The original film — which prompted a 1987 sequel starring Jason Bateman and John Astin — starred Michael J. Fox as social outcast Scott Howard, a high school senior who discovers he is a werewolf. The MTV series will be set in high school as well, but expects to draw many elements from the horror genre by exploring werewolf mythology.

“It has a fresh take and is very different from the original,” Liz Gateley, Senior Vice-President of MTV series development explains. “It has more of an ‘American Werewolf in Paris’ feel to it. It’s a dramatic thriller with two best friends in the center who provide a great comedy element: They are two very relatable characters on the outer circles of popular cliques.”

This won’t be Teen Wolf’s first time on the small screen; the movie was briefly adapted into an animated series for CBS’s Saturday Morning Cartoon format in 1986 and 1987.