Exclusive: The Munsters In Development at NBC

The Munsters Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Larger takes another stab at creating a remake from the Munsters at NBC.Larger has met with NBC professionals in recent days about returning to his adaptation from the sixties black-and-whitened classic. Larger first created a The Munsters revival this past year, but NBC ultimately handed down the script. Nevertheless, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt loved the overall idea and requested Larger to mind to the laptop keyboard.This is not your mummy's The Munsters. As the original would be a half-hour sitcom about blue collar Monster-People in america, Fuller's undertake The Munsters is going to be an edgier and more personal, slightly more dark hour-lengthy show. Larger is anticipated to deeper explore the roots of the way the citizens of 1313 Mockingbird Lane found be.There it's still lots of humor, and all sorts of the initial figures remain: Family patriarch Herman Munster his vampy wife Lily Munster eccentric Grand daddy eager boy Eddie Munster and oddly normal niece Marilyn Munster. Even Place - Eddie's pet dragon - is envisioned having a job.NBC's sister Universal Media Galleries is behind the show. Universal Galleries created the initial The Munsters, which went for 70 episodes on CBS from 1964 to 1966. The show was created in black and whitened Fuller's version, obviously, could be colored - although likely moderate.Herman Munster was created with Frankenstein's monster in your mind - made famous by Universal's 1931 movie Frankenstein. (Since Universal possessed the copyright, it could produce The Munsters without problem.) NBC clearly has monsters about the mind: It is also creating a new Frankenstein series from House executive producers Garrett Lerner and Russel Friend.Fred Gwynne, Yvonne P Carlo and Al Lewis notoriously starred within the original. The Munsters has maintained its recognition through the years, breeding the 1966 feature film Munster, Go Back Home! along with a 1981 NBC TV movie, The Munsters' Revenge, which reunited the initial cast.A brand new cast then required over and done with the late eighties distribution revival The Munsters Today, but two more casts were introduced directly into star within the 1995 Fox TV movie Here Come the Munsters, and 1996 TV movie follow up, Munsters' Frightening Little Christmas.The Munsters is just one of several revivals the systems are searching at as development season will get going ahead. CBS is thinking about a brand new undertake Bewitched, while several book and movie game titles will also be making the models.Fuller's credits likewise incorporate Heroes, Wonderfalls and Dead Much Like Me.Sign up to TV Guide Magazine now!