We have now seen (most) of the main members of The Addams Family as they will be portrayed in the upcoming Netflix series, Wednesday. However, one beloved character is still conspicuously missing; Uncle Fester. Speaking with Vanity Fair, Wednesday creator Alfred Gough has revealed that the lack of Fester is intentional, stating that the casting and the character’s role will be kept a mystery until release.
This begs the question, why would the people behind Wednesday be so strict about keeping Uncle Fester under wraps? Could it be that beloved actor and star of The Addams Family, the now 83-year-old Christopher Lloyd, will reprise the role in the Netflix show? Or has something happened to Uncle Fester that plays into the plot? Unfortunately, we will just have to wait and see.
“We have no comment on Uncle Fester. Watch the show.”
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Wednesday will put the focus on Wednesday Addams, exploring her years as a high school student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday finds the character attempting to master her psychic powers amid a number of murders that plague the small town where Wednesday has been sent to attend Nevermore Academy, a prestigious boarding school for outcasts.
Wednesday will also aim to solve the supernatural mystery that affected her family 25 years ago—all while navigating her new relationships. Could this “supernatural mystery” where Uncle Fester comes into play?
Wednesday Will Find Wednesday Addams Struggling with Being a Teenager
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Played by Jenna Ortega, Wednesday will find the Addams Family daughter dealing with being a teenager. No longer a morose little girl, Wednesday is now a gloomy teenager attending high school, whose newfound sense of independence puts her at odds with her mother, Morticia. “The relationship that kind of hangs over the season is really Wednesday’s relationship with Morticia,” Gough explained. “How do you step out of the shadow of a mother as glamorous as Morticia?”
Wednesday comes from Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, with filmmaking icon Tim Burton on board as a director and executive producer. The plan for the series is to create an extended Tim Burton-version of The Addams Family. “The ambition of the show was to make it an eight-hour Tim Burton movie,” Millar recently revealed. A plan that will achieved by Burton directing four of the eight episodes in the first season.
Burton’s influence and ideals for the perfect live action depiction of The Addams Family will be all over Wednesday. “He wanted the silhouette to look more like the Charles Addams cartoons, which is Gomez shorter than Morticia, versus the kind of suave Raul Julia version in the movies," Gough said of the changes that Burton will make when compared to previous live action iterations.
Starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, George Burcea as Lurch, and Victor Dorobantu as Thing, alongside Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Gwendoline Christie, and Christina Ricci, among others, Wednesday is set to premiere on Netflix later this year.
