Tim Burton to make TV directorial debut helming Netflix’s live-action, spin-off series Wednesday
Two-time Oscar nominee Tim Burton will make his TV directorial debut helming Netflix’s live-action, eight-episode coming-of-age comedy series Wednesday.
The Addams Family spin-off centers on Nevermore Academy student Wednesday Addams – who masters her psychic powers and ‘solves a supernatural mystery which embroiled her parents 25 years ago’ – according to Deadline.
‘When we first heard Al Gough and Miles Millar’s pitch for Wednesday we were struck, like an arrow from a crossbow, right in our hearts. They nailed the tone, the spirit and the characters, but gave us a fresh way into this story,’ Netflix honcho Teddy Biaselli said in a statement.
New gig! Two-time Oscar nominee Tim Burton will make his TV directorial debut helming Netflix’s live-action, eight-episode coming-of-age comedy series Wednesday (pictured in 2019)
Who should they cast? The Addams Family spin-off centers on Nevermore Academy student Wednesday Addams – who masters her psychic powers and ‘solves a supernatural mystery which embroiled her parents 25 years ago’
‘Tim has had a history of telling empowering stories about social outsiders like Edward Scissorhands, Lydia Deitz and Batman. And now he brings his unique vision to Wednesday and her spooky classmates at Nevermore Academy.’
The Addams Family was originally created by American cartoonist Charles Addams back in 1938.
12 actresses have taken on the part of the deadpan, death-obsessed seven-year-old – most memorably Christina Ricci in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993).
‘It’s getting dark in this little heart of mine’: 12 actresses have taken on the part of the deadpan, death-obsessed seven-year-old – most memorably Christina Ricci in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993)
Hitting US theaters this Halloween! Chloë Grace Moretz is the most recent to voice Wednesday in Universal Pictures’ 2019 animated movie The Addams Family and its upcoming sequel
Chloë Grace Moretz is the most recent to voice Wednesday in Universal Pictures’ 2019 animated movie The Addams Family and its upcoming sequel, which hits US theaters this Halloween.
Burton famously scored a Daytime Emmy Award for creating the animated spin-off Beetlejuice, loosely based on his 1988 comedy, which aired four seasons spanning 1989-1991 on ABC and later Fox.
The 62-year-old goth fairytale filmmaker has previously directed five remakes of other movies, most recently a live-action/CG version of Disney’s Dumbo in 2019.
Say it three times: Burton famously scored a Daytime Emmy Award for creating the animated spin-off Beetlejuice, loosely based on his 1988 comedy, which aired four seasons spanning 1989-1991 on ABC and later Fox
Déjà vu: The 62-year-old goth fairytale filmmaker has previously directed five remakes of other movies, most recently a live-action/CG version of Disney’s Dumbo in 2019