Director Tim Burton is doing a new live action Addams Family spinoff series for Netflix: a series about maturing with a focus on Wednesday Addams that will be appropriately named Wednesday.
The show – which has yet to announce details about the cast or release date – will mark Burton’s directorial debut on television. Burton is known for his work on gothic horror and comedy, and his filmography includes films like Beetle juice, The nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: the barber demon of Fleet Street, Dark shadows, as well as exaggerated superhero movies bat Man and Batman Returns. A live-action Addams family spinoff seems to fit his work perfectly.
Are you ready for the best Wednesday ever? A series of live action from Addams Wednesday after the scary icon’s maturity is coming to Netflix. And with that, Tim Burton will make his TV director debut! pic.twitter.com/rKQ7oZU645
– NX (@NXOnNetflix) February 17, 2021
In addition to Burton, Wednesday will also present SmallvilleAlfred Gough and Miles Millar as showrunners and executive producers.
According to a blog post announcing the series, the first season of Wednesday will have eight episodes and follow Wednesday Addams as she heads to the “quirky” Nevermore Academy. The program will see Wednesday dealing with relationships around the school, his psychic abilities and mysteries surrounding a murder in the local city and his parents’ supernatural past.
The new series apparently has nothing to do with previous adaptations of the comic horror franchise, which was most recently adapted into an animated film in 2019, featuring the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, and Bette Midler as the various members of the titular family. A sequel to that animated one Addams Family film is scheduled to hit theaters on October 1, 2021.