Nearly four years after being announced, it looks like the Wayans brothers are still planning to bring their version of The Munsters to the big screen. When it was originally announced, it was revealed that Universal Pictures would release the film that would be directed Keenen Ivory Wayans by from a screenplay by Keenen Ivory, Marlon and Shawn Wayans. You can read the latest beyond the break.
The long-gestating Wayans Brothers’ “Munsters” flick is closer than ever to happening, Shawn Wayans told MTV News, with the team behind “Scary Movie” and “Little Man” finalizing work on their third draft of the script.

“I’m almost ready. It’s almost ready to be shot,” Wayans insisted during a late night shoot on his newest film, the musical spoof “Dance Flick.” “We had to finish this movie and now we’re going through our third polish on `The Munsters.’”

The original idea thrown around was that the movie will take the 1960s television show, which was about a family of friendly monsters who never quite get why people react in terror to them, and give it a 21st century makeover.

“If we do anything, maybe we’ll do a cameo, but we’re not gonna make The Munsters black all of a sudden,” Wayans laughed. “They’re gonna be green, white people just like they were in the TV show. Their characters are still who they were in the `50s. It’s just in modern day.”

But one question that hasn’t yet been answered? Why the freaking Munsters in the first place?

“We were big fans of `The Munsters.’ We grew up watching them. We loved the characters. We thought that they would be a very, very funny movie,” Wayans insisted. “You know, they did `The Addams Family,’ which I thought wasn’t that funny or well-thought out of a show, but they did it `cuz they had a catchy theme song and turned it into a movie. I thought `The Munsters’ had the real meat and potatoes rich characters.”