Herman, Lily, and Grandpa Munster return in big screen version of beloved sitcom.
“Yeah, it’s 100 percent in the spirit of the show,” the writer-director tells EW.
“I didn’t want it to be different.
The Munsters (2022).Universal 1440 Entertainment
I wanted to totally retain the vibe that it had in the ’60s.”
So that’s why I chose the cast I chose.
“Elvira”), who plays real estate agent Barbara Carr.
“We’ve been friends with Cassandra for I don’t even know how long,” says Zombie.
“She was at our wedding, she was at Sheri’s shower.
We’ve been friends with her for at least 25 years.
So that was another good person that could come in and fit right in, totally familiar.”
Zombie’s filmisdifferent from the original show in one important way: hisMunstersis in color!
we would not be talking about theMunstersright now, because it would have never happened.
I guaran-f—ing-tee it," says the director.
“But what I did do is I made the colors sort of hyper-real.
They were just so insanely colorful.
I was like, I have to light the movie in the same fashion.
It really seemed at all times like a live action cartoon, which was really exciting.”
The Munsterswill be released this fall by Universal 1440 Entertainment, a production arm of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.
Exclusively watch the teaser trailer for the newMunstersabove.
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