Bryan Fuller on Mockingbird Lane's Monstrous Scale
Though the show won't be hitting the airwaves until next year, it appears that NBC is very happy with what they're seeing from Bryan Fuller's upcoming reboot of "The Munsters," Mockingbird Lane, and have already ordered additional scripts with a series order still pending. Fuller, a lifelong fan of the original show, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about his role as showrunner and the tone he's aiming for with his ambitious approach.
"The Munsters actually do what monsters do," he says of the show's darker approach. "They eat people and they have to live with the ramifications of being monstrous. It's like grounding it in a reality because the half-hour was a sitcom, we saw the monsters: they were monsters on the outside and weren't monsters on the inside. For us, they're monsters outside and inside, and we get to double our story."
He also promises that each hourlong episode will explore some weighter issues than the original half-hour sitcom did.
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"Everything is a metaphor for something that you can identify with in a relationship," he continues, "The fact that Herman is in a constant state of decay and he's married to someone who doesn't age. We get to play with all those insecurities. The fact that he was made by his father-in-law and then has to live up to those standards; he's always trying to find his own identity." Related Topics: |
