Jerry O'Connell, who played Vern Tessio in Stephen King's Stand By Me, has been signed to play Herman Munster in the NBC reboot, "Mockingbird Lane." The role of Herman Munster was made famous by Fred Gwynne, who co-starred in Pet Sematary. He was great in both!
Deadline describes the pilot’s premise as follows:
O’Connell will play the family patriarch, the handsome and gangly Herman Munster, a great dad and a devoted husband. He is married to Lily, a vampire, with whom he has fathered a 10-year-old boy, Eddie (Mason Cook). Strong but sentimental, Herman works at a funeral home and worries that Eddie’s transformation into a werewolf and burgeoning awareness of his family’s origins will crush the boy’s spirit.
