Though he’s usually to be found directing movies, Bryan Singer does occasionally flirt with TV: he crafted the pilot for House and his name is still on the show as an executive producer, and he’s also been involved with a few other, less successful shows. Now he’s been tempted back by Bryan Fuller’s planned reboot of The Munsters.
Fuller, who last produced Pushing Daisies, has been attached to the project for a while, cooking up what’s being described as “a visually spectacular one-hour drama” as opposed to the original’s sitcom format. The plot is likely to still revolve around Frankenstein’s monster-alike Herman, vampiric wife Lily and their family as they make their way in the world.
We’re fans of both Bryans, but was the world really, truly crying out for a new take on the blue-collar answer to the Addams Family? The 1960s show certainly had its following, managing a solid run of 70 episodes, and has been reworked several times in the years since, but it’ll take a hefty amount of re-tooling to make it work for today’s TV audiences. Still, you could have said that about Battlestar Galactica and that worked out.
Side note: the new Munsters is a quirky project and will be on the NBC network across the pond. Fuller already took one shot at the project and has had to redevelop it for the new executive team. Given the channel’s recent history of launching and dropping new shows, we give it one season at most, even with Singer aboard.
The director's next film, Jack The Giant Killer, will be out on June 15, 2012.