As a reminder, it’s pronounced “Fronk-en-steen.”
FX is growing a comedy titled Very Younger Frankenstein, impressed by Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy basic Younger Frankenstein. Brooks is among the many mission’s government producers together with producing accomplice Kevin Salter and three alumni of FX’s What We Do within the Shadows — Stefani Robinson (who will function showrunner ought to the mission transfer ahead), Taika Waititi and Garrett Basch. Disney’s twentieth Tv is the studio (forerunner twentieth Century Fox launched the movie). Michael Gruskoff, who produced the movie, can also be an EP.
FX and twentieth TV declined remark.
Younger Frankenstein was a parody of/homage to basic monster motion pictures, the Nineteen Thirties Frankenstein movies particularly. The solid consists of Gene Wilder, Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Kenneth Mars, Teri Garr and Peter Boyle, who performed the monster.
Particulars of the FX mission are being stored quiet for now; Very Younger Frankenstein is near scoring a pilot order on the Disney-owned outlet.
Ought to it transfer ahead, the present can be the second new mission based mostly on certainly one of Brooks’ movies. Earlier in June, Amazon MGM Studios introduced a 2027 launch date for a Spaceballs sequel, with Brooks — who turns 99 on June 28 — reprising his position as Yogurt and authentic castmembers Invoice Pullman, Daphne Zuniga and Rick Moranis additionally set to return. Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman (Invoice Pullman’s son) and Josh Gad, who’s additionally a producer, will star.
Very Younger Frankenstein continues Robinson’s lengthy working relationship with FX. Along with What We Do within the Shadows, which ended after six seasons in late 2024, Robinson has labored as a author and producer on Atlanta, Fargo, Man Searching for Lady and Adults, which debuted final month. Waititi, who co-wrote and co-directed the 2014 movie on which What We Do within the Shadows relies, additionally government produced FX’s Reservation Canine. He and Basch collaborated on these two sequence in addition to Max’s Our Flag Means Demise, Apple TV+’s Time Bandits and Hulu’s Inside Chinatown.
Deadline first reported the information.