Filming continues on writer/director Rob Zombie’s new film The Munsters, and today he took to his social media accounts to share a new image from the production – as he does regularly. Today was a special update, as it revealed a bit of casting news: Catherine Schell is in the cast, playing a character named Zoya Krupp! You can get your first look at the character in the Instagram embed below:
As Zombie said, Schell has credits stretching back to the 1960s and she has appeared in some classics, but she has mostly been out of the acting game since 1996. She did appear in a short in 2004, and in the 2020 Dracula mini-series starring Claes Bang.
Rob Zombie’s The Munsters is based on the classic sitcom of the same title, which ran for two seasons, from September 1964 to May 1966, and consisted of 70 episodes. (You can buy the complete series at THIS LINK.) The show
starred Fred Gwynne as Frankenstein’s monster and head-of-the-household Herman Munster; Yvonne De Carlo as his wife Lily Munster; Al Lewis as Lily’s father, Grandpa, the somewhat over-the-hill vampire Count Dracula who longs for the “good old days” in Transylvania; Beverley Owen (later replaced by Pat Priest) as their teenage niece Marilyn Munster, who was attractive by conventional standards but the “ugly duckling” of the family; and Butch Patrick as their werewolfish son Eddie Munster.
The new film stars Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman Munster, Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily Munster, Daniel Roebuck as Grandpa (a.k.a. The Count), Sylvester McCoy as the Munsters’ loyal servant Igor, and Richard Brake as mad scientist Dr. Henry Augustus Wolfgang. Jorge Garcia and Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson may also be in the cast, but their involvement hasn’t been confirmed.
Zombie has previously shared a picture of his director’s chair, the blueprint for an exact replica of the Munsters’ house, given us a look at costume designs for Herman and Lily Munster’s sleepwear, confirmed that horror host character Zombo will be in the movie, showed off a piece of furniture, posted a picture of the wig Roebuck will be wearing and of Roebuck being measured for Grandpa’s coffin, given an early look at the crafting of Herman’s head, shown off some of the wardrobe, shared pictures of some creature effects, showed the houses being built on Mockingbird Lane, updated on the construction of the Munsters Mansion, showed the completed house, teased that Herman will be wearing the leather jacket he wears when racing in the Dragula roadster, revealed Sylvester McCoy‘s Igor look, given us a glimpse of Richard Brake as Dr. Wolfgang, a Munsters Christmas card, and more.
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