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After difficulties with casting, NBC has pushed production on its Munsters pilot to June. The project, a reboot of The Munsters titled Mocking Bird Lane, was written by Bryan Fuller, with Bryan Singer attached to direct. It joins another pilot with an early order, CBS’ Jon Favreau comedy Tweaked, which also was recently rolled to after the upfronts because of casting difficulties.
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Deservedly so, those casting peeps don’t return calls to most agents and don’t know how to discover talent on their own. So many of us out here have well established talent that they refuse to see.
Would be nice if this dies without ever seeing the light of day. Terrible idea all the way around.
Like I said before, this reboot only has a prayer if they cast:
Rainn Wilson a Herman
Kirstie Alley as Lilly
Elle Fanning as Marilyn
Dustin Hoffman as Grampa AND
Martin Scorsese as Eddie Munster
It sounds gawdawful, kill it already Greenblatt.. though Fuller is a GREAT writer and Singer obviously can work his magic but going forward as a series? (sigh).. really? ORIGINAL IDEAS cmon!
Christian Bale as everybody.
This will be terrible. And cast Bob Hoskins as Grandpa
Cheaper and easier and more profitable to just colorize the old episodes we made 47 years ago and air them as if they were new. I’m serious they would look great in color and the humor would be that they don’t have any modern technology. Munsters was one of the best comedies ever made the show was consistenly hilarious.
They should push it back to never.
Hi:
I am a “creative” executive in the business.
My day starts with me sticking my thumb up my bum, twirling a little, then plucking it out and smelling it.
If it smells like roses, I will push for an original idea when I get to the office.
Otherwise, I will revert to addle-minded coward-driven mindless cookie cutter fare, so that I may once again tomorrow repeat my morning ritual. I love my expensive lunches, by the way.
Wait, was your question asking if I had any active brain cells remaining up in my head … ?
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The real problem here is the script — it doesn’t work. This is not “The Munsters” as we’ve seen them in the past. The idea is what if the Munsters were “real” – Herman looks like a normal person who just happens to be stitched together. Grandpa and Lily are vampires. Eddie a werewolf. Marilyn doing the legwork to secure them housing. It’s more drama than comedy, and it all falls flat.
Jesus they must have a lot of cash sunk into this already.
Fuller has proven time and time again what a bad investment he is and NBC finally realized that even a GOOD version of Munsters: The Dramedy could make them the laughingstock of the business.
Trouble casting? Guess all the people they wanted to cast passed on it. Now they actually have to work at it. This one still stinks.
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