Jerry O'Connell to star in 'Munsters' revival

O'Connell, who recently starred in CBS' "The Defenders," joins the previously cast Eddie Izzard as Dracula-like patriarch Grandpa, said The Hollywood Reporter.

Series executive producer Bryan Singer, whose credits include the first two X-Men movies and the pilot of "House," will direct the pilot episode.

"We want this show to be an American 'Harry Potter,' " series writer-producer Bryan Fuller ("Pushing Daisies") told Entertainment Weekly. "To have that sense of a magical world that you get to go to with your family and find stories told in a fantastical way that are instantly relatable."

"The Munsters" -- about a typical suburban family in which dad Herman was a Frankenstein's Monster, mom Lily (Yvonne De Carlo) a vampire, and son Eddie (Butch Patrick) a werewolf -- ran from 1964 to 1966 on CBS.