But we wanted more…
Every attempt to remake THE MUNSTERS failed miserably. Maybe it’s because they were remakes? When THE MUNSTERS came out, it was original. Unique. No one had ever seen anything like this before! And to try and remake something original is like reinventing the BALL. Note to Hollywood… Come up with something UNIQUE.
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Each character in THE Munsters was developed and flushed out, including THE CARS. The KOACH and the DRAGULA made sense because of the consistent DESIGN LANGUAGE. Like BARBIE. But so many choose the easy path in REMAKES because they think that it will MAKE MONEY. It rarely does… and SEQUELS do better.
But, it’s best to go old skool and just use your brain a bit more to come up with a new plan. Indiana Jones Meets I Love Lucy. Jurassic Park meets Superman. Or what about this… Come up with something that NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE. They did that in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Pretty sure it would work now…
**Get Fireball’s MUNSTERS KOACH or DRAGULA in the GARAGE on super cool stuff!!
DID YOU KNOW?? Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher’s credo while producing and writing for the classic family sitcom Leave it to Beaver was “write what you know.” Between them they had six children and they based a lot of their plots on their own home lives. They used this same philosophy when they created a sitcom about a suburban blue-collar family that just happened to be comprised of monsters. They didn’t want children to be frightened of the characters (as they might be when watching Frankenstein or Dracula during the Saturday afternoon “Creature Feature”), so they made Herman a typical working dad who carried a lunch box to work every day and who imparted homespun wisdom to his young son. The mother was caring and nurturing, even if she did serve rolled hyena foot roast for dinner, and an aging grandparent (who had a laboratory in the dungeon) lived with the family. All in all, a nice slice of down-home Americana.
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