This yr marks the sixtieth anniversary of The Munsters, a TV collection that had increased rankings than The Addams Household when each reveals shared the airwaves. Nonetheless, The Munsters have not fairly been in a position to recapture the attraction of the unique collection because it went off the air in 1966 regardless of quite a few makes an attempt to reboot the present. Now, James Wan goes to strive his hand at new model of The Munsters that embraces horror over comedy.
Through Deadline, Wan, Lindsey Anderson Beer, and Ingrid Bisu are creating The Munsters’ darkish reboot for Common Content material Productions, a division of NBCUniversal. The brand new collection is at present referred to as 1313, after the deal with of the Munsters’ house on 1313 Mockingbird Lane. Beer is about to be the showrunner of the collection if it goes ahead.
If the premise of 1313 sounds acquainted, it is as a result of Bryan Fuller and director Bryan Singer tried to do a darkish reboot of The Munsters in 2012 with a present referred to as Mockingbird Lane. The collection by no means acquired previous the pilot stage regardless of a forged that included Jerry O’Connell, Portia de Rossi, and Eddie Izzard. NBC aired the pilot episode as soon as as a Halloween particular.
