The Munsters are back once again. Just a year and change later Rob Zombie's The Munsters movie, Universal is taking another crack at its iconic property. In accordance with Limit date, horror master James Wan is producing a new series through his Atomic Monster production company. They describe it as “a darker take” on the classic show, which featured lovable sitcom versions of the Universal Monsters. The title of this latest reboot is 1313, as in the Munsters' home address, 1313 Mockingbird Lane. While Rob Zombie's version The Munsters was a movie, this wants to follow the path of the TV series.
Actually, this isn't the first time Universal has produced a darker, edgier take The Munsters for television. And the last one also had basically the same naming convention, centered around their home address. More than a decade ago, Bryan Fuller developed a series called Mockingbird Lane. It starred Jerry O'Connell as Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as Lily and Eddie Izzard as Grandpa. Controversial X Men director Bryan Singer shot a rather expensive pilot. this The Munsters The concept never made it into a full series, but the episode aired as a Halloween special in 2012. A new, more traditional The Munsters The sitcom was announced in 2017, but never materialized.
The original black-and-white sitcom ran for two seasons, from 1964 to 1966, on CBS. This was for the same amount of seasons and during the same years as MunsterABC's rival show, The Addams Family. Both shows lived on for decades in reruns. Despite this, The Addams Family brought back to life for several successful theatrical films and animated projects. Now, he currently has one very successful spin-off on Netflix with Wednesday. Undoubtedly, the success of that show made Universal reconsider The Munsters as something they could modernize. Maybe this time it will finally click.
