The First Trailer for 'Wednesday' Promises 'Mystery, Mayhem and Murder'
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Jenna Ortega is perfectly creepy as Wednesday Addams in the new Tim Burton series teaser.
Netflix has released the official trailer for Wednesday, the highly-anticipated Tim Burton series that will bring The Addams Family back to the small screen.
With Jenna Ortega starring as the title role, the chilling new show follows the story of Wednesday Addams as she navigates Nevermore Academy, a prestigious boarding school for outcasts.
"Little did I know that I'd be stepping into a nightmare full of mystery, mayhem and murder," Ortega, 19, says in the trailer, which is full of blood, gore and creep creatures. "I think I'm going to love it here."
The rest of her iconic family members will also be making a return for Burton's reimagined Addams Family project, which features Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán as her ghoulish parents, Morticia and Gomez, along with Isaac Ordonez playing her brother, Pugsley.
In the upcoming "sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery," Ortega embodies the Addams family's only daughter as she "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," according to a description from Netflix.
Burton—the filmmaker behind Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and many more creepy flicks—is the executive producer of the show, and also directed four out of the eight episodes.
The upcoming Netflix series is one of many revamps of the spooky Addams Family characters—which also include Uncle Fester, Grandmama, butler Lurch and Cousin Itt—who were all originally created by cartoonist Charles Addams.
Ortega definitely isn't the first actress to play Wednesday, as there have already been multiple onscreen adaptations of the frightening family, including the 1991 film The Addams Family, which famously starred Christina Ricci as the young daughter when she was 10-years-old.
Ricci, now 42, also appeared in the 1993-sequel, Addams Family Values, and is even expected to make an appearance in Wednesday in a top secret role that has yet to be announced.
Wednesday is expected to debut on Netflix this fall.
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