Tim Burton’s ‘Addams Household’ Spinoff: Every little thing We Know

They’re creepy they usually’re kooky, mysterious and spooky — and coming to Netflix. Tim Burton is directing a brand new Addams Household spinoff sequence about Wednesday Addams, appropriately titled Wednesday.

The streaming service introduced the sequence in February 2021 and revealed the primary have a look at the present’s art work, which confirmed a silhouetted Wednesday enjoying the cello with a big knife as an alternative of a bow.

Few different particulars concerning the eight-episode sequence have been launched, however given Burton’s affection for horror-inspired, goth-tinged aesthetics, he and the Addamses needs to be a fantastic match.

The director, who will make his first foray into tv with Wednesday, rose to prominence within the Eighties with Pee-wee’s Massive Journey, Beetlejuice and Batman. His subsequent challenge, 1990’s Edward Scissorhands, arguably made stars of Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder (and was memorably parodied by Timothée Chalamet in a 2021 Tremendous Bowl business).

All through his profession, he’s repeatedly collaborated with most of the similar actors, together with Depp, Michael Keaton, Christina Ricci, Michelle Pfeiffer and his ex-girlfriend, Helena Bonham Carter. To this point, none of these folks have been introduced as having any involvement in Wednesday, however it doesn’t damage to dream a few bewigged Pfeiffer as household matriarch Morticia.

The Addams Household started as a sequence of single-panel New Yorker cartoons drawn by illustrator Charles Addams, operating from 1938 till his demise in 1988. The primary Hollywood adaptation was a half-hour sitcom that ran from 1964 to 1966. Two animated sequence adopted in 1973 and 1992, and a live-action sequence titled The New Addams Household ran from 1998 to 2001.

The primary big-screen adaptation hit theaters in 1991, with a solid that included Ricci as Wednesday, in addition to Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd. The sequel, Addams Household Values, premiered in 1993 and was adopted by a direct-to-video reboot in 1998.

Lastly, the spooky crew got here again but once more in 2019’s animated The Addams Household, that includes voice work by Charlize Theron, Oscar Isaac and Snoop Dogg as Cousin Itt. A sequel to that model is due out in November 2021. Oh, and there was additionally a Broadway musical that premiered in 2010.

All of which is to say that that is hardly the primary time somebody’s tried to carry again the Addamses. It’s not even the primary time Burton has tried to take action — he was connected to a stop-motion movie model that was canceled in 2013.

It’s, nonetheless, the primary time anybody’s targeted on Wednesday Addams alone, which is nice information for followers of pigtail braids and the colour black. Preserve scrolling to seek out out every part we all know to this point about Wednesday: