This will probably be appearing in tomorrow’s “Best of the Web” (especially since I e-mailed it to Taranto):
From “The Onion”, dated December 16, 1998:
Gus Van Sant Prepares Shot-For-Shot Teen Wolf Remake
And now:
Smallville’s Tom Welling to Star in Teen Wolf Remake
Oh, by the way: This is a horrible idea.
Honestly – your source is the Onion. I doubt it is a shot for shot remake.