Wayans Brothers Redo The Munsters
Over at MoviePictureFilm, Shawn Wayans has spilled the beans about redoing the classic 60s TV comedy series, The Munsters, as a theatrical release he and his brothers will produce. Says Shawn, "Next we're taking the old TV show The Munsters and making that
into a feature film. We're contemporizing it...something I want to
clear up is that we're not going to be in it. We're just writing and
producing it. We're going to get some white people and paint them
green." Wayans adds that it'll be a PG-13 movie.
Although I'm generally against remakes, I think it's high time for a new Munsters movie. But here's a question for you. Who would play Herman Munster? How about The Rock or maybe even Javier Bardem (from No Country For Old Men)? What do you think? And who would play Lily? Cameron Diaz, Salma Hayek, Marcia Gay Harden?
I WOULD say Shuler Hensley, but I think he might be tired of being typecast after doing "Young Frankenstein"... (He DID show up in that Geico Commercial about Jed Clampett...)
Hell, just call Brad Garrett.
You know, Brad Garrett actually sounds like a slam dunk of a choice. He's definitely got the laugh down and the build, no?
I don't know about an updating of this classic TV family though, because I didn't really care for the colorized version of the Munsters. Black and white filming really added something special to the greatest family from Mockingbird Lane.
That's a good point, Malice...this would be way better if they keep it in black-and-white. It worked for Young Frankenstein...
I actually like Brad Garrett as Herman too. I think Marcia Gay Harden would be an interesting choice for Lily. I wouldn't have thought of her.
Actually, Brad had said that he's the love child of Herman Munster and Greg Brady. XD
i like that brad garrett idea. y'know, he'd probably make a good Lurch from the Addams Family, too.
What about Drew Barrymore as Lily? She can be really funny.