32 Years Later, a ‘Stranger Things’ Star Reunites With Mel Brooks for New Comedy Reboot Series

Mel Brooks is reuniting with an old friend for his new TV series Very Young Frankenstein. Cary Elwes, who starred in Brooks’ 1993 spoof Robin Hood: Men in Tights, will appear in the TV spin-off of Brooks’ horror comedy classic Young Frankenstein. No plot details about the new FX TV series have yet been revealed.

According to reports, Elwes will play the President of the United States. It’s an ironic role for Elwes, as the London-born actor noted in Brooks’ Men in Tights that “unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with a British accent,” an allusion to Kevin Costner‘s California-inflected performance in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The series will also serve as a reunion for the behind-the-scenes creatives of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, as Stefani Robinson will write and showrun the series, Taika Waititi will direct the pilot, and they’ll both executive produce with Garrett Basch. Brooks will also executive produce with producing partner Kevin Salter as well as Michael Gruskoff; the latter produced Young Frankenstein with Brooks back in 1974.