Danny Elfman to Compose Theme for Wednesday Addams Series
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We learned last year that Tim Burton was coming to live-action TV with a Netflix series based on The Addams Family. But that wasn’t the whole story. Announced officially by Netflix is Wednesday, a new series focusing on a slightly older Wednesday Addams. Directed and produced by Burton himself, Smallville’s Al Gough and Miles Millar are returning to TV as the series showrunners. The first season will consist of eight episodes.
According to the official synopsis for Wednesday:
“The series is a sleuthing, 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.”
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So this sounds very much like Riverdale, but with a Gothy Burton bent. In the Addams Family movies from the ’90s, Cristina Ricci as Wednesday was absolutely the biggest scene-stealer. Especially in the superior sequel, Addams Family Values. So it makes sense to focus a series on her. This way, it’s not just another take on the Addams clan living in their creepy and kooky mansion.
And now we know who will play the lead: Jenna Ortega! Luis Guzman will play Gomez, and Catherine Zeta-Jones will play Morticia. Ortega’s appeared in You, Jane the Virgin, and Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous among other things.
Happy Wednesday! @JennaOrtega will play the iconic Wednesday Addams in our upcoming live-action Wednesday series, directed by Tim Burton. pic.twitter.com/Z9LDKwT3MA
— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) May 19, 2021
Meet Morticia and Gomez
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán will be playing Morticia and Gomez Addams in the upcoming Wednesday TV series. They'll be alongside Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, with Tim Burton directing. pic.twitter.com/qEq5pxxNMk— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) August 9, 2021
Ortega, Gomez, and Zeta-Jones are also joined by ten new cast members. The new cast includes Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Sunday, Percy Hynes White, Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, and Jamie McShane. Additionally Game of Thrones alum Gwendoline Christie has joined the cast. Per Deadline, she’s playing Larissa Weems, Morticia Addams’ nemesis and principal of Nevermore Academy.
Netflix also shared a little more about these ten new characters in a release and on Twitter:
We learned in December that Danny Elfman would team with Burton once again. The musician will compose the theme for Wednesday. He will also create themes and score episodes throughout the entire season of Wednesday, working alongside composer Chris Bacon.
The show looks like it’s going to be an incredible adventure, though there’s no word yet on when it is supposed to debut. Hopefully, Netflix bucks tradition and drops this series on a Wednesday. It would only be fitting.
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Originally published February 17, 2021.
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