In multiple interviews, former Doctor Who star Sylvester McCoy mentioned that he was going to be working with Rob Zombie on a movie that would be filming in Hungary. In one interview, McCoy said their collaboration was “a comedic Dracula film, and I’m playing Dracula’s butler.” Since those interviews, Zombie started filming his new movie The Munsters in Budapest, Hungary – and now he has taken to his Instagram account to confirm that McCoy is indeed in The Munsters, sharing a picture of him in character as Igor, “the loyal servant to the Munsters”.
McCoy’s officially confirmed co-stars include Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman Munster, Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily Munster, Daniel Roebuck as Grandpa (a.k.a. The Count), and Richard Brake as mad scientist Dr. Henry Augustus Wolfgang.
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 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, 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, teased that Herman will be wearing the leather jacket he wears when racing in the Dragula roadster, given us a glimpse of Richard Brake as Dr. Wolfgang, and more.