The Munsters Is Getting A Reboot: Here's A First Look

Inspired by the original series, the half-hour single-camera The Munsters, now in development, follows members of an offbeat family who are determined to stay true to themselves but struggle to fit in in hipster Brooklyn. (In the original, the Munsters resided at the famous 1313 Mockingbird Lane address in the city of Mockingbird Heights, a fictional suburb in California.) Kargman will write the script and will executive produce with Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions’ Meyers and Mike Shoemaker. Universal TV is the studio. Where did the idea for a reboot originate? Click "Next" to find out. The project originated with Kargman, who came up with a new take on the classic sitcom, which ran on CBS for two seasons from 1964-66. Her team tracked down the rights to Universal TV, where she teamed up with Late Night host Meyers, who has a producing deal at the studio. NBC and Universal previously took a stab at rebooting The Munsters several years ago as an hourlong series written by Bryan Fuller. It resulted in the big-budget pilotMockingbird Lane, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Jerry O’Connell as family patriarch Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as his wife Lily, Eddie Izzard as Grandpa and Charity Wakefield as cousin Marilyn, which aired as a Halloween special in 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?vE4Cn1tQaUkM The planned reboot is inspired by the original series and will follow an offbeat family determined to stay true to themselves struggles to fit in in hipster Brooklyn. Click "Next" to take a nostalgic look back on the original series. The original Munsters lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in the fictional California city of Mockingbird Heights. The series featured a family of benign monsters (this was during the era of "weird family" shows like The Addams Family)—Fred Gwynne as dad Herman Munster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vKSvObcWg3hM Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily Munster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vnFToYWg2C6w Al Lewis as Grandpa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v0UL_BnLnY90 Beverly Owen (later Pat Priest) as their teenage niece Marilyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vre2qevIHaEI and Butch Patrick as son Eddie Munster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?viH8oXjGNA80 So it goes without saying that we are extremely excited to hear more about this reboot. How about you? Tell us in the comments section below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?vHM0riizU8Ls Source: (Variety, Gothamist)

The Munsters Is Getting A Reboot: Here’s A First Look

By Brad Rosenberg
8 years ago

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