We haven’t heard much from The Wayans Brothers after their awful smash hit Little Man in 2006, and I have to say, I’ve enjoyed the breather. Unfortunately, our brake from their utter unfunny is almost over, since they’re planning to make one of their next projects a movie version of the classic television show The Munsters.
In an interview with MoviePictureFilm.com, Sean Wayans talked about their plans for translating the Munster family into a feature film. The good news is that none of the Wayans will actually be in it. They’re just writing and producing it. Instead, they’re “going to get some white people and paint them green.” I wonder if they know The Munsters only has one green character? His name is Herman guys. Try watching an episode before you adapt it.
The film will be a little edgier than the extremely innocent television show, but not too edgy. Sean says they’re planning for a PG-13 rating and readily admits that they’re making it PG-13 just to pander to kids who can’t get in to rated R movies. Speaking of the R-rated films they’ve done in the past, Sean says “You know what happened with the rated R thing is that we were doing our rated R comedies and then they started clamping down on kids going into the theater. So kids would still be sneaking into our movie but would be paying to see something else. So none of the box office went to our movie, yet everyone still saw it. Business wise, it made it tough for us to continue doing them.” At least he’s honest about selling out. But then it’s not like he had much to sell. They’re the Wayans brothers after all, not Terrence Malick.
I’ve always liked The Munsters, but I can’t see it working as a movie, even if it weren’t being soiled by the incredibly awful Wayans. There’s just no replacing the great Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and besides, the show mostly consisted of double entendres and silly monster jokes. Hilarious in a half-hour format when you’re twelve, but probably not so great stretched out into a 90 minute movie. Their monster family competitors The Adams Family always had more of a freaky, cinematic quality to them that the Munsters lack. Maybe that’s why the Adams got their movie in the 90s and it’s taken till now for everyone to run out of better ideas and get around to adapting The Munsters. I just hope the Wayans don’t tarnish my pleasant memories of the series with their handywork.
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Theres only one perason alive that I can think of filling Freds huge shoes, and thats Brad Garrett. I know he did Gleason in his biopic, but imagine Brad in the Herman makeup and with that voice and Hermans crazy laugh (as seen in the pic above)... Brad could pull this off, hands down.
I wish this was a very bad joke, but I have a feeling it isn't. Pleeeeease let this movie not work out. People need to stop remaking movies all the time. Let us have SOME originals to hold onto.
The guy from Raymond and 2 Stupid Dogs nailed Herman times ten in a stand-up like he was auditioning for an early pitch. Steched to 90 minutes? Of course the people in charge usually screw TV show films but if they did 4 24 minute ideas that are great and losely join them together you could in the ideal have something.
Yes! Bring on Brad as Hermie!!! He's perfect. But who as Grampa? Jerry Stiller? I hope they don't cast too young a Lily. She needs to be 35-40 and have that... shall we call it "married wisdom". Eddie needs to be updated as a punk rock / rap fusion skater type. Marylin should be smokin' hot and have dating problems for obvious reasons and should be plagued by this for the run of the sequels. If they make spot visible other than his tail I will be enraged. The real star of this show for me will be the new cars. A flame barkin' super-rod spooktacular! The family Koach and Grandpa's Dragula! Woohoo! In fact, hows this for a synopsis: Herman gets a custom chopper. Lily doesn't want him to get the bike but he goes all biker ridiculous and joins a bike gang that has committed a crime that Herman unwittingly gets wrapped up in. Grandpa builds a super bike with a side car, whips up some kinda concoction and he and Lily in hilarious disguises attempt to infiltrate the gang and save Herman from himself. One of the bikers becomes enamored with Lily and harasses her. Herman's pure chivalrous nature kicks in and he comes to her rescue. While Herman is pulverizing the entire bike gang, Grandpa and Lily find the evidence they need to incriminate the bikers and call the cops. Herman, as usual, ends up the unlikely hero. Toss in some subplot with an exterminator discovering spot and being scared out of the house, Eddie having a night howling problem (werewolf puberty gag), and Marilyn's numerous bad dates and you've got a Munsters feature.
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November 29th, 2007 at 13:02
Theres only one perason alive that I can think of filling Freds huge shoes, and thats Brad Garrett. I know he did Gleason in his biopic, but imagine Brad in the Herman makeup and with that voice and Hermans crazy laugh (as seen in the pic above)... Brad could pull this off, hands down.