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The director makes “The Munsters” reboot
Rob Zombie at a 2019 Hollywood event
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The rumors have come true: Filmmaker and musician Rob Zombie is working on a reboot of the 60s series “The Munsters”.
“The rumors are true”, Rob Zombie (56) wrote his two million Instagram followers in a post on Monday. “My next film project will be one that I’ve dreamed of for 20 years. ‘The Munsters’!” In addition, the rocker posts a picture with the inscription “A Rob Zombie Film: The Munsters”. It has been rumored again and again that the musician and director is planning a new edition – now the rumors have come true.
“The Munsters” was a very successful comedy series with horror elements in the 1960s and was even nominated for a Golden Globe in 1965. It ran at the same time as the cult series “The Addams Family”, to which it has many parallels. Both series started at the same time and were canceled two years later in the same week.
The success of “The Munsters”
“The Munsters” is about the “Munster” family around host Herman, his wife Lily, their father Dracula, niece Marilyn and their son Eddie. The family left Trannsylvania and found it difficult to find their way in their new home USA. Now rocker and director Rob Zombie wants to breathe new life into the family. After the series was discontinued in 1966, there were films and spin-offs with the Munster family:
In 1966 the film “Gespensterparty” followed in 1981 by the film “The Return of the Frankenstein Family”, in which the main characters of the original series slipped into their Munster roles for the last time. In the 1990s, two more films came with new casts. In 2012, NBC announced a series called “Mockingbird Lane” – that was the name of the street where the Munsters lived. But there was nothing more to admire than the pilot episode.