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Mel Brooks Producing Live “Young Frankenstein” Musical for ABC
This fall ABC will debut “Young Frankenstein Live!” as its next live musical event, produced by the show’s creator Mel Brooks, reports Deadline from the TCA Winter Press Tour in Pasadena today.
Based on the 2007 Broadway stage version of the Brooks-Gene Wilder classic 1974 film comedy Young Frankenstein, the live TV musical will feature music from the stage adaptation composed by Brooks. Cast and airdate forthcoming.
Broadway’s Young Frankenstein musical, with a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and music and lyrics by Brooks, opened on Broadway Nov. 8, 2007, closing Jan. 4, 2009.
Young Frankenstein (1974) starred Gene Wilder as an American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe. He is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
Based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, creator Ryan Murphy’s “The Shards” is headed to FX and Hulu this Summer.
Look for “The Shards” to premiere on FX and Hulu on August 5 at 6 p.m. PT.
In the meantime, check out the brand new official poster below.
Igby Rigney (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Homer Gere (“The Agency”), Graham Campbell, Kaia Gerber (Shell), Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), Igby Rigney, Wes Bentley, and Hayes Warner star in the upcoming series “The Shards.”
Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical, dark coming-of-age tale follows a 17-year-old Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.
In the series, Igby Rigney will portray Ellis, and Graham Campbell will play Thom. Homer Gere, son of actor Richard Gere, has been cast as Robert Mallory. Frequent Murphy collaborator Max Winkler (“American Horror Story,“ “Grotesquerie”) is attached to direct.
The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.
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