Bryan Singer to Helm NBC's 'The Munsters' Reboot

Oh, and that went real well...

I think it can be done well or done badly, but there are some projects that lend themselves better to the idea than others. A comedy Dark Shadows I can buy.

 

You've got it all wrong. It's more like X-men the Family.

 

Didn't they try this already?

 

lol I did not say it did well! I just mean they have done it already so hopefully they won't try it again!

 

I'll probably watch it as well...even against my better judgment!...

 

I tried to like this...

 

That was the show that taught me, just because you have it all DVR'd, doesn't mean you have to actually watch it!

Poor, poor Hollywood...doubling-down on a bad idea by throwing a name onto it, just to get press.




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And just to bring this up to date: it was announced today that the producers have hired actor Jerry O'Connell to play Herman Munster...



Goofy, and not in a good way.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li.../Consumer+(The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Consumer)

 

I like him in the roles I've seen him in...is is tall? when will this show be ready for airing?

 

GOOD LORD, I AM IN HELL

 

Yep....the "fertile" minds of Hollywood have dried up and blown away. Wonder what they'll screw up next?

 

maybe they'll dig up the Addams Family next...

 

we don't pull in the channel that will be airing this on our digital box...

 

Maybe the Munsters should square off against the Addams in a Texas Hold 'em poker tourney...?

 

.they may be listening.

 

In the real world, I don't expect a re-booted MUNSTERS to last very long. We're talking about NBC here, so that's one big strike against it.

But I have to caution the naysayers that a lot of what's being said here was probably said about a Sci-Fi reboot of BATTLESTAR: GALATCTICA. A female Starbuck? It'll never work...

Harry

 

Funny, the local morning radio guys were talking about this and gasped a BIG OMG on the thought of this happening.

They just can't leave anything alone anymore.........

 

Hehehe

 

The fertile minds haven't dried up, there are plenty of writers around doing good, original things. It just the studios won't touch anything that doesnt have a franchise attached to it. Pathetic. We need the seventies again when there were risk takers and directors called the shots.

 

Doesn't money still talk, though? If the original stuff that does make it to the theaters was as good as it should be, wouldn't the ticket sales be bearing that out?

 

I looks like TV, like film industry have decided to follow the Broadway model. Just go and remake everything, and once in a while, put out something new and original. How many times have Broadway gone and remade the same shows year after year. Hollywood figures if they do it enough, the public will just accept it.

 

...what makes them think this will work?

 

I think the problem with ticket sales is the price of admission...it's hard for many to crack the nut of a pair of tickets and refreshments...If the prices were lower we'd see a huge difference...

 

And it was just announced today that Universal has cancelled plans to reboot The Munsters, basically saying it didn't work.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/nbcs-munsters-reboot-mockingbird-lane-unlikely-to-go-forward/

Apparently the pilot was shot (with Ellen DeGeneres' wife Portia DeRossi as "Lili"), and was described as "visually striking":



I think this will be yet another bizarre, super-expensive pilot that nobody will ever see...

 

Too bad. I was looking forward to it. I loved Bryan Fuller's "Pushing Daisies", so I'll give anything he does a shot.