Netflix has been able to attract all sorts of talent to the streaming service for both film and television projects. One of their more recent acquisitions was getting filmmaker Tim Burton to pause his string of Disney live-action remakes to focus on a new comedy series incarnation of “The Addams Family” with “Wednesday,” which focuses on the angsty teenage daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams. Burton directs all eight episodes and the source material certainly feels on-brand for him.
Lead actress Jenna Ortega, who plays this new version of Wednesday Addams, was on hand at Netflix’s big event Tudum this weekend to introduce a clip from the quirky family comedy (See below).
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Ortega leads the cast assembled by Burton in the titular role that also features actors such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline Christie, Isaac Ordonez, Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Joy Sunday, Emma Myers, Jamie McShane, and others. We’ll also see Christina Ricci among the supporting cast, who previously played Wednesday Addams in the Barry Sonnenfeld-directed films from the 1990s.
Netflix has previously released a brief logline for the new show:
An upcoming Netflix series from the imagination of Tim Burton. “Wednesday” — starring Jenna Ortega in the title role, alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline Christie, Christina Ricci, and more — is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Snap snap.
“Wednesday” will make its big debut on November 23. We’ll be keen to see how many of Burton’s cinematic hallmarks end up in the series reboot.
“The Addams Family” originally started out as a comic strip created by Charles Addams and was published by The New Yorker in the late 1930s. It was eventually turned into a live-action series in the 1960s and those two aforementioned feature films.
This isn’t Burton’s first entry into television, as he once produced animated series like “Beetlejuice” and “Family Dog.”
You can watch that clip between Thing and Wednesday below.