The Munsters’ Runtime Hints At A Rob Zombie Reboot Problem
Director Rob Zombie’s reboot of The Munsters is rumored to have an incredibly lengthy runtime, which might be a problem for the sitcom revival. Rob Zombie is set to revive The Munsters, and the horror legend could not be a better fit for the long-formant sitcom franchise. After all, The Munsters fused horror tropes with goofy comedy and warped family dynamics, all of which abound in Zombie’s earlier movies.
Announcements surrounding Zombie's plan to remake The Munsters into a new feature film surfaced in March 2021. Since then, behind-the-scenes looks into the project, which will be released simultaneously in theaters and on Peacock, have been shared by the filmmaker. Casting info and accuracy to the source material have been major topics among those looking forward to the Munsters reboot. However, the Munsters reboot risks repeating Zombie's Halloween remake mistakes.
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Like Halloween, The Munsters is a much-loved cult favorite Zombie has wanted to reboot for years. Still, like Halloween, the new movie could be derailed by the director over-indulging his idiosyncrasies. In this regard, rumors of The Munsters reboot boasting a runtime of over two and half hours may not bode well for the movie. According to those rumors, Zombie’s Munsters reboot has a runtime just shy of 2 hours and 40 minutes. While there is no way to say how long a given movie should or not be, particularly when little is known about the story of The Munsters, this is still a surprisingly ambitious runtime for a family comedy. For comparison, the similarly macabre family comedies of the Addams Family franchise were all limited to under two-hour runtimes, with most of the movies clocking in at
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