Overview

• FX is closing in on a pilot order for Very Young Frankenstein, a comedy series adapting Mel Brooks’s 1974 film Young Frankenstein.
• Mel Brooks has endorsed the project and joins Kevin Salter and Michael Gruskoff as executive producers.
• Stefani Robinson, known for her work on What We Do in the Shadows, is writing the pilot and will serve as showrunner.
• Taika Waititi will direct the pilot, with collaborator Garrett Basch also on board as an executive producer.
• 20th Television is producing the series in pre-production, with casting yet to begin and plot details kept under wraps.