Netflix is currently plotting an Addams Family-inspired series, with Tim Burton in the director’s chair, and its cast is shaping up to be amazing. The series is being developed under the working title Wednesday, and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán recently joined its cast.
Zeta-Jones and Guzmán are set to play the roles of Morticia and Gomez Addams, joining Jenna Ortega, as she takes on the titular character. Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar will serve as showrunners, with Tim Burton leaving his signature touch on the series by boarding the project as director.
Wednesday has been described as a “sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery” that follows Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. As she tries to master her emerging psychic ability, Wednesday also finds herself trying to solve a monstrous killing spree and a 25-year-old supernatural mystery involving her parents.
Netflix’s series isn’t the latest attempt to bring the Addams Family back. An animated movie, voiced by the likes of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Finn Wolfhard, came out in 2019 and its sequel is on the way despite mixed reviews of the original film.
