Bryan Fuller to remake The Munsters for NBC

[Sawyer]

I wonder if they might introduce a Van Helsing type character to the series...

 

[Mogwai]

i'm wondering if they'll poke fun at the vampire/zombie craze.

 

[Sawyer]

They should. Especially since the mother and father of the family are a vampire and what is essentially a zombie.

 

[bullets]

I wonder if they might introduce a Van Helsing type character to the series...

They could have the local sheriff be a direct descendant.

 

[DrDoom]

One of the main jokes/criticisms about the original is how does a Vampire and a Finklestein have a Werewolf kid.

Well maybe in this version Grandpa explains that he got Herman's reproductive pieces from a dead werewolf lol

 

[Sawyer]

Eddie Izzard interview:

That doesn’t mean Izzard isn’t about to get deeper into genre fare, as he’s taken a starring role in the reimagined Munsters from Bryan Fuller, jumping into the Grandpa character’s shoes... With some large differences. “It’s going to be probably as different from the original Batman, to Tim Burton’s Batman,” said Izzard. “We don’t have the action and the budget of that, but we do have quite an elegant, weird, twisted, dramatic, but dark and comedic pilot that we’ve just shot. We will see where that goes in the wide wide world of everything, but that’s where it is. And the Grandpa role is not quite the same as the original Grandpa role. He is just the patriarch.”

 

[TheDreamMaster]

One of the main jokes/criticisms about the original is how does a Vampire and a Finklestein have a Werewolf kid.

Well maybe in this version Grandpa explains that he got Herman's reproductive pieces from a dead werewolf lol

You know, I'm aware the film "Bram Stoker's Dracula" took it quite literally, but the original novel of Dracula had the Count relating to both bats and wolves. So, I'd say having a werewolf son was just getting the human parts from Herman (since techinically, he is human, just a resurrected one), and he got more wolf side than Bat side of the vampire half.

Yep, totally over-thinking this, but it makes sense to me at least.

 

[The Question]

I really think going into a detailed explanation about Herman having a werewolf's reproductive organs in order to have a werewolf son by a vampire wife is wicked nit picky and fanfic-y.

Honestly, if it needs an explanation (which it really doesn't), then you'd say Eddie isn't a vampire because he's not dead, which is a primary prerequisite if being a vampire, but he's still supernatural.

 

[rayc1971]

so herman is not the monster but a zombie this series?

 

[Sawyer]

No, he's still Frankenstein's monster. But when you think about it, that's essentially a zombie, just without the flesh-eating aspect.

 

[rayc1971]

He's still Frankenstein's monster. He just doesn't look like Boris Karloff/Fred Gwynne. That's not this series' style.

read somewhere he is a zombie this series.i had high hopes when i heard about this but i see a bomb.i dont see this lasting the season first it should not be a hour show.they should have kept it to 30mins really they gonna fill a hour show everyweek with this concept.second everyone that grew up with this show is gonna not go for the look of the characters.third jerry o connell really!

 

[Sawyer]

How are they going to fill an hour show every week? I think you can ask that of every hour long series on television.... and the answer is: ongoing storylines. The original series didn't have them. This will.

And if anyone is turned off by the way the characters look in comparison to the original series, well, I hope they enjoy themselves back in the 1960s.

 

[Siby]

I always thought of Eddie being an adopted son. Back in those days of television and cinema they had the puritanical outlook about sex.

It's like Tarzan and Jane having their son "boy" but they find him instead of making him themselves.

 

[Mogwai]

I just read in EW that NBC made them edit a werewolf scene that was deemed too scary for network television. This show can't come soon enough

 

[Sawyer]

**** you, NBC

I was really looking forward to this.

 

[O'Haire]

 

[Tanin]

I completely agree

 

[Sawyer]

I really hope another network takes interest, like Lifetime did with that Desperate Maids pilot.

Syfy, I'm looking at you.

 

[Mogwai]

Awe that sucks

 

[Majik1387]

Makes me kind of happy personally.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Bryan Fuller tweeted that NBC said Deadline was wrong.

https://***********/BryanFuller/status/252969247960084480

 

[Sawyer]

There's still hope?! THERE'S STILL HOPE!!!

 

[Motown Marvel]

maybe NBC was like "oh crap! jerry o'connel is in this?! screw that!"

 

[Man in the Suit]

NBC Struggles to Salvage $10 Million Munsters Reboot

NBC has a big decision to make regarding its high-profile reboot of The Munsters. After two years in development and a pilot that sources say cost a whopping $10 million, the network is said to be unhappy with Mockingbird Lane (named for the famed family's 1313 address) and is on the verge of scrapping the whole project.


What went wrong? Based on the goofy 1964-66 CBS comedy series about a Frankenstein-ish patriarch and his monstrous relatives, NBC's new version teamed writer-producer Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) with director Bryan Singer (the X-Men movies, House) and lured a top cast including Portia de Rossi as Lily Munster, Jerry O'Connell as Herman Munster and Eddie Izzard as the Dracula-esque Grandpa.
The series was originally launched before current chariman Bob Greenblatt came on board in early 2011, but Greenblatt ordered the re-development of the project when he took the reins. Yet Fuller and Singer are said to have had differing opinions about the visual style of the pilot. And sources say NBC execs were adamant that the Munsters family should exist in a contemporary real-world setting, creating a fish-out-of-water feel for the characters and storylines, while Fuller preferred a more visually stylistic world akin to his critically acclaimed Daisies. Reshoots were ordered, but the final pilot is said to have come in below NBC's expectations. And with the in-demand Fuller now busy shooting NBC's 13-episode Hannibal series, based on serial killer Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs, he's not able to focus on saving the Munsters project. So NBC has been left to consider all options to salvage its investment in the property.


Sources say the network could choose to air the completed pilot as a Halloween special (either this year or next), or it might decide to shoot extra footage and package it as a made-for-TV movie for international buyers. Or Greenblatt and NBC entertainment president Jennifer Salke could decide to go all-in and redevelop the project again. "It's a fluid situation, but none of the options is ideal, especially considering the promise that this thing had," says one source close to the project. NBC and reps for Fuller and Singer declined comment.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nbc-munsters-reboot-377724

 

[Majik1387]

They should air it as a Halloween special.