Thanksgiving is the new Halloween. Tim Burton and Netflix's upcoming "Wednesday" series, the "Addams Family" spin-off starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, has a release date.
“Wednesday” will premiere all of its episodes on November 23, which happens to be the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
Creators: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Stars: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome
Wednesday brings the darkness everyone loves to Netflix. And everyone loves The Addams Family! Her joyous gothic presence gave every alternative teen (and adult) a reason to be happy to be different. They drove a hearse through town. They could be seen on the beach in an all black outfit. They would walk into a restaurant and order a plate of spaghetti and eyeballs. All while maintaining the nonchalant expression that told the world that this was all perfectly normal. It was everyone else who was weird.
There was a vampiric mother, a swordsman father, a cousin who was nothing but a bundle of hair, and, without a doubt, everyone's favorite daughter: the expressionless and sadistic Wednesday. While The Addams Family was born in a 1938 New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams, most will know them from their live-action movies in the '90s or the more recent animated movies in 2019 and 2021. And now they're back on screen. with Wednesday at center stage.
The new Netflix series has just released a first look at the fearsome main character and the Thing, the clever hand that has always been a member of the family. Although it's just a sneak peek, it's enough to get fans excited to hear that the director is none other than the master of the macabre: Tim Burton.
There were some big announcements at New York Comic Con recently on Wednesday. The show released its official trailer, giving fans their first look at Nevermore Academy, the bizarre boarding school for supernatural boys where the series will take place. The trailer also showed us the new Uncle Fester, along with his special powers. We also saw who Christina Ricci will play. The trailer answered many of the big questions fans had leading up to the premiere. We also finally got a specific release date.
In the series, Wednesday attends Nevermore Academy, where she tries to master her new psychic abilities and solve a murder mystery related to her family's past.
“Miércoles is currently a teenager, and we have never seen her as a teenager before,” Ortega said in a statement. “Her sarcastic, sarcastic comments about her may not necessarily sound so charming when coming from someone who should probably know more than a 10-year-old girl. That was a balancing act. We didn't want her to sound like any other teenager, but we also didn't want her to be too ignorant. And we've never seen her so much on screen. Every other time you've seen Wednesday, she's been the one-liner, the end of a joke, she always hits the mark, and I think that's what people really love about her. But in this show, every scene is Wednesday. There's an opportunity to give her a little bit more dimension, and she becomes a little bit more of a real person, which I don't think we've seen before.”
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán co-star as Morticia and Gomez Addams, Wednesday's parents. Isaac Ordonez plays her brother Pugsley, Victor Dorobantu voices the disembodied hand servant Thing, and George Burcea voices the servant Lurch. The cast also includes Gwendoline Christie, Jamie McShane, Percy Hynes White, Hunter Doohan, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Naomi J Ogawa, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, and Riki Lindhome. Christina Ricci, who played the iconic role of Wednesday in the 1990s "Addams Family" film series, will make a special appearance as Marilyn Thornhill.
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar serve as co-showrunners, writers and executive producers on "Wednesday." Burton produces and directs four of the eight episodes, with Gandja Monteiro and James Marshall serving as additional directors. Steve Stark, Andrew Mittman, Kevin Miserocchi, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman, and Gail Berman are also executive producers. “Wednesday” is an MGM Television production for Netflix.
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