This is kind of old news apparently, but it’s new news to me. It seems that a couple of years back, The Wayans Brothers had been tapped to turn the popular 60’s TV series The Munsters into a feature length movie. Seems like a bad joke right? Since then they went on to do the comedy masterpiece Little Man, but in a recent interview with MoviePictureFilm.com, Shawn Wayans has confirmed that The Munsters will indeed be their next project.

“Next we’re taking the old TV show The Munsters and making that into a feature film. We’re contemporizing it…something I want to clear up is that we’re not going to be in it. We’re just writing and producing it. We’re going to get some white people and paint them green.”

He also mentions that the movie will be PG-13, and that the days of their raunchier comedies may be over. Not only are all of the Wayans Brothers now fathers, but the R-rated movies didn’t generate the box office success they wanted.

“They started clamping down on kids going into the theater. So kids would still be sneaking into our movie but would be paying to see something else. So none of the box office went to our movie, yet everyone still saw it. Business wise, it made it tough for us to continue doing them.”

Riiiiight. So the reason the movies weren’t making any money isn’t because no one was seeing them, it’s because kids were paying for a different movie and sneaking into them! Of course. Anyway, I don’t have any interest in a Wayans Brothers version of The Munsters, although I haven’t seen much of the original show either. Barry Sonnenfeld’s Addams Family movies were decent (not great), and I can’t see this even coming close.