The Munsters aired first in 1964 and ran for two seasons. The show was created by Allan Burns and became a genre defining moment for horror, incorporating both goth and comedy. The show revolves around Herman, who is the monstrous creation of Frankenstein, his wife and her father, who are vampires. The show was later adapted into an animated special for ABC Network called The Mini Munsters, several films, a sequel TV show called The Munsters Today and a reboot called Mockingbird Lane. Universal is developing a brand-new film on the same and director Rob Zombie has been brought onboard to work on it.
The details we have so far
The film’s shooting is set to start in May of this year by Murphy’s Multiverse, but no official sources have commented on it. However, that has not stopped the speculation about casting and reports say that Sheri Moon Zombie, Rob’s wife will be playing the female lead, Jeff Daniel Phillips will play the male lead, Daniel Roebuck, Richard Brake, Jorge Garcia and Cassandra Peterson will also be cast in unknown roles as of yet. All these are actors that Rob Zombie frequently works with and though it seems odd that someone like him will be taking the Director’s chair, given his usual style that involves gore and violence, it does make sense in a way Zombie is a Munster’s superfan.
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The cast of the original show
The original Munsters show that ran for over seventy epiodes starred Fred Gwynne (Pet Sematary, 1989), Yvonne De Carlo (The Ten Commandments, 1956), Al Lewis (Married to the Mob, 1988), Butch Patrick (The Phantom Tollbooth, 1970), Pat Priest (Easy Come Easy Go, 1967), Beverly Owen (Bullet for a Badman, 1964), Roger C Carmel (Hardly Working, 1980), Mike Mazurki (Murder, My Sweet, 1944) and John Blyth Barrymore (Baby Blue Marine, 1976).
