First Look at the Munsters House in MOCKINGBIRD LANE
Here's our first look at the house of 1313 Mockingbird Lane in the upcoming new “imaginative reinvention” of The Munsters which will be called Mockingbirg Lane, and have a small resemblance to the classic ’60s show.
The series is being developed by Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller and filmmaker Bryan Singer. The look of the new series is going to be a bit edgier with a slightly darker take exploring origins of Herman and Lily Munster, and how they arrived at the famed 1313 Mockingbird Lane address.
Here's a few things Fuller had to say about the series in a recent interview with EW that you might be interested in reading,
We want this show to be an American Harry Potter. To have that sense of a magical world that you get to go to with your family and find stories told in a fantastical way that are instantly relatable. It’s an American Horror Story that the whole family can watch.
He went one to discuss the title change saying,
The script is such a dramatic departure from the tone and style of the original show. If we continued to call the show The Munsters, people are just going to to think we’re doing The Munsters. We’re doing a reinvention and re-imagination of this property. I love the Universal monsters. I love the Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, The Wolfman,Phantom of the Opera, The Mummy. There’s so many great characters we can run through this metaphor of family storytelling that it just felt it was ripe to do as a one-hour dramedy. Having all those elements to play with, the toy box is really really full.
He talks about other monsters being added to the show,
Absolutely. There’s some great stories going forward in the series. Any story you can tell onParenthood we can run through a Universal monster prism and tell it in a very twisted off-kilter way. What I love about the pilot story is it’s about a family who loves each other and they have a child [Eddie, the werewolf] with a disability and they’re trying to craft a path for that child so he can have a happy life — they just happen to be monsters. And, unlike in the original, we’re going to see our monsters do monstrous things.
Fuller is asked about the costumes of the series, and here's what he says about them,
We’re not doing bolts in the neck and Bela Lugosi. It’s almost the Real Housewives of Transylvania. These are a blinged-out representation of what monsters would be doing if they lived in our society today. How they would look, how they would interact. Our wardrobe is heavily influenced by Alexander McQueen and his use of animal textures. For instance, with [the vampire] Lily, all of her wardrobe comes from nature. The first time we see her this nest of spiders weaves her dress on her body as she’s standing there. We’ll see ravens come in and assemble her blouse out of their feathers. We won’t see animal skins because the animals are donating as opposed to dying for it. She has domain over nature and nature has a fantastic esthetic.
This sounds like it will be an entertaining series to watch. I've enjoyed most of Fuller's TV series like Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me. I like what he's saying about his vision for this series, and it will be fun to see it come to life. What do you think about what Fuller had to say about what he's doing with the series?
