Rocker and horror filmmaker Rob Zombie is going away from his normal gruesome style to deliver The Munsters. The classic characters being brought to the modern world will get a lift in color, which Zombie spoke about in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
While color is new to the family of monsters, being family-friendly is not. For Rob Zombie, making The Munsters, was new territory for him. For a guy who has shocking theatrics to his live sets and brutal films like Halloween and The Devil’s Rejects, he will be making his most approachable film that will welcome the whole family. For him, it was about authenticity and paying respect to the original series.
Rob Zombie gathering the cast of The Munsters
The film will star Cassandra Peterson (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), Dee Wallace (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Sylvester McCoy (Doctor Who), Jeff Daniel Phillips (Westworld), Sheri Moon Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses), Daniel Roebuck (Final Destination), and Jorge Garcia (Lost). For the casting, the director aimed to get as many people together who had worked together before for chemistry that worked.
You can see what a Rob Zombie The Munsters movie looks like this fall when it releases.
