Mel Brooks' iconic '70s horror spoof Young Frankenstein is being developed as a series for FX by the creatives behind What We Do in the Shadows.

It’s alive! It’s alive! A comedy series based on Mel Brooks’ classic 1974 film Young Frankenstein is nearing a pilot order at FX, Deadline has learned. Brooks is said to have given the project, Very Young Frankenstein,

If there was a flag for the Mel Brooks state of mind, it would carry the words that Blazing Saddles used to tease its sendup of westerns: “Never give a saga an even break.” As the writer/director himself rode the line between paying homage to/cleverly satirizing old Hollywood, his own work has never taken itself too seriously.