Another Munsters Reboot in Development at NBC With Seth Meyers Producing - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

HauntedThunderman94 · 08-10-2017, 05:42 PM

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A reboot of the classic sitcom “The Munsters” is in the works at NBC, Variety has confirmed.

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. Jill Kargman will executive produce and write the script, with Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker also executive producing. Universal Television (UTV) will produce along with Meyers’ and Shoemaker’s Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions, which is set up with a first-look deal at UTV.

The development “The Munsters” reboot keeps Meyers in business with NBC, where he currently hosts the late-night series “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” In addition, the network recently ordered the Meyers-produced comedy “A.P. Bio” to series.

Kargman is repped by ICM. Meyers and Shoemaker are repped by CAA. Meyers is also repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

The original series aired for two seasons and 70 episodes from 1964-1966. It starred Fred Gwynne as the Frankenstein’s monster father figure Herman Munster, Yvonne De Carlo as mom and bride of Frankenstein Lily Munster, Al Lewis as vampire Grandpa Munster, Beverly Owen (and later Pat Priest) as their normal teenage niece Marilyn, and Butch Patrick as the werewolf son Eddie Munster.

This is the latest attempt to reboot the series. In 2012, Bryan Fuller produced a pilot called “Mockingbird Lane,” with Jerry O’Connell as Herman, Portia de Rossi as Lily, and Eddie Izzard as Grandpa. It was aired as a Halloween special on NBC, with the network ultimately deciding not to order it to series.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/muns...rs-1202523040/

loaferman · 08-11-2017, 08:21 AM

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http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/muns...rs-1202523040/

Facepalm. Seth Meyers must be as void of creativity as he appears. Eddie will probably be gay and Marilyn will be transgendered. I suppose Herman and Lilly were always a mixed race couple since Herman was green. That just leaves something to "update" Grandpa as... maybe the neighborhood "perv".

MA · 08-11-2017, 10:24 AM

Why?

tlc38tlc38 · 08-11-2017, 10:59 AM

Gonna flop!

Chocolate Moose · 08-11-2017, 11:50 AM

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

PhoenixAcres · 08-11-2017, 12:33 PM

These sort of things simultaneously intrigue and disgust me. I would give this reboot a try, but admittedly my expectations aren't too high.

Marvo301 · 08-11-2017, 01:28 PM

What made the original series special wasn't the characters. It wasn't the costumes. It wasn't the make-up. It was the actors who played the characters. They can put other actors in the costumes and make-up but they will never recreate the magic of Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis, Yvonne DeCarlo, Beverley Owen, Pat Priest, and Butch Patrick.

tlc38tlc38 · 08-11-2017, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

What made the original series special wasn't the characters. It wasn't the costumes. It wasn't the make-up. It was the actors who played the characters. They can put other actors in the costumes and make-up but they will never recreate the magic of Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis, Yvonne DeCarlo, Beverley Owen, Pat Priest, and Butch Patrick.

BINGO!

ILuvCarolBurnett · 08-15-2017, 11:52 AM

They do not know when to leave well enough alone. They did a Munsters reboot in 2012 with Jerry O'Connell as Herman Munster (that was about the most ignorant piece of casting I've ever seen) and Ellen DeGeneres girlfriend as Lily. God awful...and this will be too. Seth Meyers is a cute guy, kinda charmingly quirky, but I don't see him as a great creator of television.

MrCleveland · 08-15-2017, 01:37 PM

Is it gonna be like the 1988 reboot?

treky · 08-19-2017, 03:07 AM

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Is it gonna be like the 1988 reboot?

O MY GOD I hope not-that 1988 revival was

treky · 08-19-2017, 03:12 AM

o god no!!!

Retro4Life · 08-19-2017, 09:12 AM

Yawn. Of all the creative directions Meyer could go in, why here?

I love the original Munsters, but honestly, it's time for everyone to agree that, as Marv said, doing the show without the original actors is doomed. How many times does a reboot have to fail before they get this?

kclj520 · 08-21-2017, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

What made the original series special wasn't the characters. It wasn't the costumes. It wasn't the make-up. It was the actors who played the characters. They can put other actors in the costumes and make-up but they will never recreate the magic of Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis, Yvonne DeCarlo, Beverley Owen, Pat Priest, and Butch Patrick.

Wholeheartedly agree! There was a question about a reboot of The Andy Griffith Show on another forum: the characters and original cast are what makes a show or movie special. Which is why there will never be another Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, etc.

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