TV’s original American horror story is taking another step toward returning to primetime: NBC has ordered a pilot of Bryan Fuller’s remake of the classic TV show
The Munsters.
The new version of the half-hour sitcom is bring re-imagined by the
Pushing Daises creator as an hour-long series exploring how the monster house came about, and will have a darker and less campy feel than the black-and-white original.
The Munsters was launched the same year as the rather similar
Addams Family, which goes to show in this season of dueling fairy tale dramas (
Grimm, Once Upon a Time) that networks haven’t changed all that much. While Addams was based off Charles Addams’
New Yorker cartoons, the
Munsters patriarch Herman was basically a play on Frankenstein.
There’s a couple other projects that could impact
The Munsters‘ fate. NBC is also developing a remake of
Frankenstein from
House producers Garrett Lerner and Russel Friend, while Fuller is working on another monstrous project for NBC