Jenna Ortega will play a new take on Wednesday Addams in Wednesday, a new series coming to Netflix this fall. Developed in collaboration with Tim Burton, who makes his series directorial debut by helming four of the show’s eight episodes, Wednesday serves as a bit of a reimagining of The Addams Family with a specific focus on Wednesday Addams. On Tuesday, Netflix and Vanity Fair unveiled an official image of the family as seen in the series.
Series showrunners Miles Millar and Alfred Gough teased what Wednesday will be like. It was explained that they did not approach this project looking at it as a reboot or remake of The Addams Family. The idea was to simply tell a Tim Burton story that spans quite a bit longer than your average film, and this one just so happens to feature The Addams Family characters. As Millar puts it:
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The showrunners also say that Burton was the “Mount Everest of directors” on their wish list for the project after he famously passed on directing the original live-action feature film. It apparently took just three days for Burton to get back in touch after checking out the pilot script, and they were happy to hear that he was stoked about the idea. Gough said:
Wednesday is a Show About Family
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The new Addams Family as seen in Wednesday consists of Jenna Ortega as Wednesday, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzman, as Gomez, and Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley. Millar also spoke about the family dynamics of the series and the relationship between Pugsley and Wednesday. While Wednesday does tend to carry out her own methods of “torture” on her brother, she is also defensive, refusing to let school bullies or anyone else treat him that way.
Wednesday comes to Netflix this fall, just in time for Halloween. A specific release date has yet to be announced for the new series, but we also know that Rob Zombie’s The Munsters will be hitting the streaming platform around the same time.
