They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky — and coming to Netflix. Tim BurtonIs directing a new Addams FamilyA spinoff series about Wednesdays Addams, appropriately titled Wednesday.
The streaming service announced the series in February 2021 and revealed the first look at the show’s artwork, which showed a silhouetted Wednesday playing the cello with a large knife instead of a bow.
Few other details about the eight-episode series have been released, but given Burton’s affection for horror-inspired, goth-tinged aesthetics, he and the Addamses should be a great fit.
Director, who will make his debut in television. WednesdayIn the 1980s, he rose to prominence with Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, BeetlejuiceAnd Batman. His next project, 1990’s Edward Scissorhands, who are arguably the greatest stars of Johnny DeppAnd Winona Ryder(and was memorably parodied). Timothée ChalametIn a Super Bowl 2021 commercial
Throughout his career, he’s repeatedly collaborated with many of the same actors, including Depp, Michael Keaton, Christina Ricci, Michelle PfeifferHis ex-girlfriend. Helena Bonham Carter. None of these people have been publicly announced as having any involvement in the investigation. Wednesday, but it doesn’t hurt to dream about a bewigged Pfeiffer as family matriarch Morticia.
The Addams FamilyIt began as a series single-panel panels New YorkerCartoons by Charles Addams. They ran from 1938 until his death, in 1988. The first Hollywood adaptation of the cartoon was a half-hour sitcom which ran from 1964 through 1966. In 1973 and 1992 followed two animated series, and in 1992 a live action series. The New Addams FamilyFrom 1998 to 2001.
The first big-screen adaptation was released in 1991. It featured Ricci as Wednesday as well as Anjelica HustonRaul Julia Christopher Lloyd. The sequel, Addams Family ValuesThe original premiered in 1993, and was followed by a direct to-video reboot in 1998.
Finally, the spooky crew came back yet again in 2019’s animated The Addams Family, featuring voice work by Charlize Theron, Oscar IsaacAnd Snoop DoggCousin Itt. The sequel is expected to appear in November 2021. Oh, and a Broadway musical premiered in 2010.
All of which is to say that this is hardly the first time someone’s tried to bring back the Addamses. It’s not even the first time Burton has tried to do so — he was attached to a stop-motion film version that was canceled in 2013.
It is, however, the first time anyone’s focused on Wednesday Addams alone, which is great news for fans of pigtail braids and the color black. Keep scrolling for all the information we have so far Wednesday:
