Tim Burton is shopping a new TV revival of The Addams Family

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https://deadline.com/2020/10/tim-bur...es-1234601840/

The acclaimed director is poised to work on his first major live-action TV series with a reboot of the satirical inversion of the ideal 20th-century family that American cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938 that inspired several TV series and movies, reports Deadline. Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar will write the series and serve as showrunners, while Burton will executive produce and potentially direct. MGM Television is shopping the potential series, with Netflix among the bidders. "While not confirmed, sources say the new live-action series would be set in present times and be from the perspective of Wednesday Addams and what the world would look like to her in 2020," reports Deadline's Justin Kroll, adding: "The pairing of Burton and The Addams Family would be a perfect fit as the dark themes of the spooky clan line up so perfectly with what you see in classic Burton films like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. Burton clearly has interest in series with dark comedic themes, having also adapted the ’70s series Dark Shadows into a feature film starring Johnny Depp." Burton's previous TV work includes an animated series based on his 1988 film Beetlejuice that ran from 1989 to 1991. The Addams Family was turned into a TV series four times, most famously as a 1964-66 ABC sitcom, plus two animated series in the 1970s and 1990s. The 1998 live-action revival The New Addams Family lasted one season.

[tcr1701]

I'm afraid it would be another dark and "modern" take like the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which I have no interest in seeing. I miss the light-hearted charm of the original TV show and an Addams house that isn't crumbling down.

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Netflix Wins Tim Burton’s ‘Addams Family’ TV Series ‘Wednesday’

The Addams Family, for those unaware, is about a fictional household that was first seen back in the 1930s in comic strip form. Over the decades, the IP has been adapted into films (both live-action and animated) as well as TV, video games, and musical productions.

Now fast forward a few months it looks as though Netflix has officially won the bidding war to the series and is scheduled to go into production this summer with no release window announced just yet. If we had to guess, it won’t be on Netflix until 2022 at the very earliest.

MGM TV is the production studio ultimately behind the series but Netflix will carry the global distribution rights.

Season 1 of Wednesday is set to be eight hour-long episodes.

We can also reveal what the series will be about. Here are some early details including the logline for the series which follows:

“Wednesday Addams misadventures as a student at Nevermore Academy: a very unique boarding school snuggled in deepest New England.” The first season (it’s currently unclear whether Netflix ordered multiple seasons upfront) will follow Wednesday Addams at boarding school where she’s learning to master her growing set of abilities all the while solving a murder mystery, going up against a new growing evil threat, and battling with her various new relationships around the school of Nevermore.

Wednesday Addams (the lead role expected to be Latino or Hispanic) will be aged between 18-20 and the show will also feature Gomez Addams and Morticia Addams who you’ll be familiar with if you’ve watched the movies or read the comics. No cast members have been revealed yet.

As the show is set in a boarding/high school setting, the vast majority of the rest of the cast will be teens. Among the supporting characters for the series include Enid Sinclair, Tyler Galpin, Yoko Tanaka, Xavier Thorpe, Eugene Ottley, Ajax Petropolis, Principal Larissa Weems, Tamara Novak, and Bianca Barclay.

Jon Glickman, Andrew Mittman, and Gail Berman are attached as executive producers.

[merlinjones]

Well, he's already ruined Dark Shadows, Willy Wonka, Planet of the Apes, Sweeney Todd, Batman, Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland and more so why stop now?

[stevea]

Hmmm, I never knew Morticia and/or Gomez were Latino/Hispanic.

Maybe they adopted Wednesday and we never knew it (they could have a flashback episode explaining what government official allowed them to adopt a kid).

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You's Jenny Ortega to play Wednesday Addams in Wednesday, Tim Burton's Addams Family-based Netflix series

The eight-episode comedic “coming-of-age tale” charts the iconic character’s years as a Wednesday Addams Netflix Series Posterstudent at Nevermore Academy.

[king of comedy]

She looks the part

[JamesG]

"Wednesday" Netflix Series Casts Luis Guzmán as Gomez
by Denise Petski
August 6, 2021


Luis Guzmán has joined the cast of Netflix’s "Wednesday", Tim Burton’s live-action Addams Family series for Netflix focused on the iconic character of Wednesday Addams, Deadline has confirmed.

He will play Gomez Addams, patriarch of the Addams family and father of Wednesday, played by Jenna Ortega.

https://deadline.com/2021/08/wednesd...ez-1234810548/

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Catherine Zeta-Jones cast as Morticia in Netflix's Wednesday Addams series

The Oscar-winning actress will appear as a guest-star opposite Jenna Ortega and Luis Guzmán in Netflix's The Addams Family offshoot Wednesday, created by Al Gough and Miles Millar with Tim Burton on board as director and executive producer. Zeta-Jones will play Morticia Addams while Guzmán plays her husband Gomez and Ortega plays the title role of Wednesday. Wednesday is "described as a supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore." Zeta-Jones is coming off of recurring on Prodigal Son. In recent years, she also starred on Queen America and Feud: Bette and Joan.

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Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane & Hunter Doohan among 10 Cast in Tim Burton’s "Wednesday"
by Denise Petski
August 27, 2021


Netflix is rounding out its cast for "Wednesday", Tim Burton’s live-action "Addams Family" series, adding 10 series regulars.


- Thora Birch (Ghost World, The Walking Dead) will portray Tamara Novak.
Wednesday’s dorm mother and the only “Normie” on staff at Nevermore Academy with a focus on all things botanical.


- Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, Another Period) will play Dr. Valerie Kinbott.
A local therapist in the sleepy town of Jericho who takes a particular interest in her newest patient Wednesday Addams.


- Jamie McShane (Mank, Bloodline) will portray Sheriff Donovan Galpin.
Born and bred in Jericho, this Sheriff has always had an issue with Nevermore Academy and a vendetta against former student Gomez Addams.


- Hunter Doohan (Your Honor, Truth Be Told) will play Tyler Galpin.
A townie who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Wednesday Addams. Tyler has a troubled relationship with his father, the local sheriff.


- Georgie Farmer (Treadstone, The Evermoor Chronicles) will portray Ajax Petropolus.
A student at Nevermore Academy who also happens to be a Gorgon. Awkward and shy, Ajax is anxious about looking anyone in the eye.


- Moosa Mostafa (Nativity Rocks!, The Last Bus) will play Eugene Otinger.
One of Nevermore Academy’s quirkiest students and president of the school’s bee-keeping club.


- Emma Myers (Girl in the Basement, Taste of Christmas) will portray Enid Sinclair.
She is Wednesday’s sunny and colorful Californian roommate at Nevermore Academy. Enid hails from a pack of San Francisco Werewolves.


- Naomi J. Ogawa (Skylin3s) will play Yoko Tanaka.
A vampire with Harajuku-inspired Goth flair and one of the cool kids at Nevermore Academy.


- Joy Sunday (Dear White People, The Beta Test) is Bianca Barclay.
One of Nevermore Academy’s most popular students, Bianca descends from a long line of Sirens with a mesmerizing power to persuade.


- Percy Hynes White (The Gifted, Pretty Hard Cases) will play Xavier Thorpe.
A charismatic and supernaturally artistic Nevermore Academy student, who comes from wealth thanks to his celebrity psychic father.

https://deadline.com/2021/08/wednesd...es-1234823032/

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Gwendoline Christie Joins Tim Burton’s "Wednesday" Series
by Denise Petski
September 15, 2021


"Game of Thrones" alumna Gwendoline Christie is set as a lead in "Wednesday", Tim Burton’s live-action Addams Family series for Netflix.

Christie will play Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore Academy who still has an axe to grind with her former classmate Morticia Addams (Zeta-Jones).

https://deadline.com/2021/09/wednesd...es-1234833915/

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Originally Posted by JamesG

Thora Birch among 10 Cast in Tim Burton’s "Wednesday"
by Denise Petski
August 27, 2021


Netflix is rounding out its cast for "Wednesday", Tim Burton’s live-action "Addams Family" series, adding 10 series regulars.



- Thora Birch (Ghost World, The Walking Dead) will portray Tamara Novak.
Wednesday’s dorm mother and the only “Normie” on staff at Nevermore Academy with a focus on all things botanical.

https://deadline.com/2021/08/wednesd...es-1234823032/

Thora Birch Departs Netflix’s "Wednesday" for Personal Reasons
by Nellie Andreeva
Dec. 9, 2021


Thora Birch has exited "Wednesday", Tim Burton’s live-action Addams Family series for Netflix.

“Thora has returned to the States to attend to a personal matter and will not be returning to the production,” a rep for series producer MGM said in a statement to Deadline.

According to sources, Birch is dealing with a family illness.




I hear Birch had finished filming the bulk of her series regular role as Tamara Novak, Wednesday’s dorm mother and the only “Normie” on staff at Nevermore Academy with a focus on all things botanical.

The role will not be recast, with producers looking to add a new character to the show’s first season, I hear. It is unclear whether that character will take over for Tamara and help close out her planned storyline with both of them co-existing on the show or whether the new character will replace Tamara and Birch’s scenes will be reshot.

https://deadline.com/2021/12/wednesd...es-1234888017/

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Tim Burton reunites with longtime collaborator Danny Elfman for Netflix's Wednesday Addams series

Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer Elfman will write the theme music and score episodes for Wednesday. Burton and Elfman previously collaborated on Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mars Attacks! and Big Fish.

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Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family movies, joins Netflix's Wednesday

Details about Ricci's role on Tim Burton's Addams Family series are being kept under wraps, but Deadline reports she'll be "a major part of the live-action show." Ricci was a child actress when she starred on the Barry Sonnenfeld-directed 1991 film The Addams Family and its 1993 follow-up Addams Family Values.

[Yong Fang]

There is a Youtube series of short videos (maybe under ten minutes long each) of an adult Wednesday Addams living in the World. There are about six of these and they are mostly humourous. Just type in "Wednesday Addams" and enjoy.