Tim Burton Is Working On A Live-Action Wednesday Addams Series For Netflix
Believe it or not, Tim Burton never worked on the 1991 hit film The Addams Family or the 1993 sequel Addams Family Values, despite the fact that both films look like they were developed straight from his Pinterest board. But thankfully his commitment to a moody, dark-haired weirdo aesthetic comes in handy every once in a while because it was just announced that he’ll be working with Netflix on a live-action series about everyone’s favorite death-obsessed starched collar enthusiast, Wednesday Addams.
Variety says that a live-action project about Wednesday Addams was tossed around back in October, but no one was attached and it didn’t have a network. Clearly, that got sorted out. Netflix announced yesterday that the series, titled Wednesday, will be directed by Tim Burton and will be a “sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery” slash coming-of-age story. And judging from the poster, Wednesday is also not a very good musician. A knife?! On a cello?! Oh my goodness, someone’s getting benched from orchestra this year.
Tim Burton is bringing Wednesday Addams to Netflix in a live-action coming-of-age series!
Burton will also make his TV directorial debut on the sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery that follows Wednesday as a student at Nevermore Academy pic.twitter.com/8ei3wIUrxq
— Netflix (@netflix) February 17, 2021
It seems like Wednesday will be set at some kind of boarding school. Here’s a synopsis:
Based on the character originally created by Charles Addams, Wednesday is a young adult TV series described as a a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. 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 – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.
It’s like Murder She Wrote meets Riverdale. She’s a psychic now? And a murder-solver? That’s playing pretty fast and loose with the source material. Not to get all Back In My Day™ here, but back in my day, Wednesday Addams was a preteen whose only supernatural power was creeping out the normies. Here’s what I’d rather see: Wednesday Addams just living a boring goth teen existence. Show me Wednesday getting into fights with E-girls at Hot Topic over Bauhaus t-shirts, or trying desperately to scrub Manic Panic Raven out of the bathtub before her parents get home from the cemetery.
Pic: Paramount Pictures