Nearly five months have gone by since writer/director Rob Zombie confirmed that Sylvester McCoy is in the cast of his movie The Munsters by sharing an image of McCoy in character as Igor, “the loyal servant to the Munsters”. Now Zombie has taken to Instagram to share another image of McCoy’s Igor.
Zombie says McCoy’s work on The Munsters was just wrapped, but the movie has already been cut together and even received a PG rating for “macabre and suggestive material, scary images and language”, so this picture is probably from a while ago.
McCoy’s co-stars in The Munsters include Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman Munster, Sheri Moon Zombie as Herman’s wife Lily, Daniel Roebuck as Lily’s father The Count, Tomas Boykin as Lily’s werewolf brother Lester, Richard Brake as mad scientist Dr. Henry Augustus Wolfgang, Catherine Schell as a gypsy woman named Zoya Krupp, Jorge Garcia as Herman’s friend Floop, Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson as realtor Barbara Carr, Dee Wallace as the voice of Good Morning Transylvania, Jeremy Wheeler as Herman’s boss Mr. Gateman, and possibly Pat Priest.
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.
There have been two different Igors in past iterations of The Munsters. One was Grandpa’s pet bat, and the other was Cousin Igor, shown working as the caretaker of Castle Dracula in the 1981 TV movie The Munsters’ Revenge.
Zombie has been sharing pictures throughout the making of The Munsters. He has shown off 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, some set interiors, 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, Catherine Schell as Zoya Krupp, Jorge Garcia as Herman’s buddy Floop, Cassandra Peterson as Barbara Carr, a Munsters Christmas card, the three leads getting their makeup fixed, Lily on a monitor, a color image of Herman, Lily, and The Count, a shot of Lester, and more.
A release date for Rob Zombie’s The Munsters has not yet been announced.
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