“1313” – James Wan Producing Dark Reboot of ‘The Munsters’

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In the wake of Rob Zombie’s direct-to-video movie The Munsters back in 2022, Universal has now announced “1313,” a brand new small screen reboot of the iconic television series.

Developed and produced by James Wan’s company Atomic Monster, the new Universal horror series is said to be “a darker reimagining of the 1964 classic sitcom The Munsters.”

Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) will serve as the showrunner for “1313.” The title is of course a reference to the Munster family’s address, 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

Deadline notes in their report, “The project is being developed by James Wan, Beer, and Ingrid Bisu for UCP. Atomic Monster and LAB BREW are the production companies.”

Executive producers are Lindsey Anderson Beer and James Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett for Atomic Monster. Ingrid Bisu is a co-exec producer on the upcoming series.

If you want to revisit the original series, “The Munsters” is streaming on Peacock. That series ran for just two seasons between 1964 and 1966, spawning several feature films and a sequel television series titled “The Munsters Today” (1988 – 1991). More recently, Bryan Fuller’s “Mockingbird Lane” reimagined the series for NBC, but never made it past a pilot episode.

While various actors have played the roles across the decades, the core of “The Munsters” has largely remained the same, with the various shows and movies documenting the wacky lives of the lovable family of monsters. What does a “dark reimagining” entail, you ask?
 
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