James R | On 22, Mar 2022

Christina Ricci has joined the cast of Netflix’s Wednesday Addams series.

Simply titled Wednesday, the coming-of-age comedy will see everyone’s favourite maiden of the macabre graduate into a fully fledged leading lady. The eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy.

Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body and preparing for the dreaded underworld known as adulthood.

Jane the Virgin’s Jenny Ortega will play Wednesday, with Luis Guzmán (Narcos, The Last Stand, Traffic) playing her father, Gomez Addams, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams. They’re joined by Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin, who has both an issue with Nevermore and a grudge against former student Gomez Addams. Gwendoline Christie will play Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore Academy who still has an axe to grind with her former classmate Morticia Addams.

And now, in an inspired piece of meta-casting, Ricci – fresh from Yellowjackets – has joined the star-studded ensemble. She is, for many film fans, the definitive Wednesday Addams, having played her in the live-action Barry Sonnenfeld films from the 1990s. She will be a series regular in the Netflix project, with Deadline reporting that she will be playing a new character, who will fill a similar role to Thora Birch as Tamara Novak, Wednesday’s dorm mother, who exited the project at the end of last year.

Filming is currently underway in Romania and is expected to finish at the end of this month.

 

Gwendoline Christie joins Netflix’s Wednesday Addams series

17th September 2021

Gwendoline Christie has joined the cast of Netflix’s Wednesday Addams series.

Simply titled Wednesday, the coming-of-age comedy will see everyone’s favourite maiden of the macabre graduate into a fully fledged leading lady. The eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body and preparing for the dreaded underworld known as adulthood.

Jane the Virgin’s Jenny Ortega will play Wednesday, with Luis Guzmán (Narcos, The Last Stand, Traffic) playing her father, Gomez Addams, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams. They’re joined by Thora Birch as Tamara Novak, Wednesday’s dorm mother, Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin, who has both an issue with Nevermore and a grudge against former student Gomez Addams, Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, Another Period) as therapist Dr Valerie Kinbott, Hunter Doohan (Your Honor, Truth Be Told) as Tyler Galpin, the son of Sheriff Donovan who becomes friends with Wednesday, Georgie Farmer (Treadstone, The Evermoor Chronicles) as Ajax Petropolus, a student at Nevermore who happens to be a Gorgon, Moosa Mostafa (Nativity Rocks!, The Last Bus) as Eugene Otinger, president of the school’s bee-keeping club, Emma Myers (Girl in the Basement, Taste of Christmas) as Enid Sinclair, Wednesday’s werewolf roommate at Nevermore, Naomi J Ogawa (Skylin3s) as Yoko Tanaka, a cool kid at Nevermore who happens to be vampire, Joy Sunday (Dear White People, The Beta Test) as Bianca Barclay, a popular student of Nevermore, who happens to be a Siren, Percy Hynes White (The Gifted, Pretty Hard Cases) as Xavier Thorpe, an artistic student at Nevermore who is the son of a wealthy celebrity psychic.

And now, adding extra star power to the ensemble is Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore Academy who still has an axe to grind with her former classmate Morticia Addams.

The series is written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, who will serve as showrunners, while Tim Burton will make his TV directorial debut with the project. All three will exec-produce the show.

 

Thora Birch, Jamie McShane join cast of Netflix’s Wednesday Addams series

3rd September 2021

Thora Birch and Jamie McShane are among the wave of new additions to the cast of Wednesday, Netflix’s live-action Addams Family series.

Created by Tim Burton, the coming-of-age comedy will see everyone’s favourite maiden of the macabre graduate into a fully fledged leading lady. The eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body and preparing for the dreaded underworld known as adulthood.

Jane the Virgin’s Jenny Ortega will play Wednesday, with Luis Guzmán (Narcos, The Last Stand, Traffic) playing her father, Gomez Addams, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams.

Now, they’ve got some company, with 10 series regulars joining the ensemble.

Thora Birch (Ghost World, The Walking Dead) will play Tamara Novak, Wednesday’s dorm mother and the only normal Nevermore staff member.

Jamie McShane (Mank, Bloodline) will play Sheriff Donovan Galpin, who has both an issue with Nevermore and a grudge against former student Gomez Addams.

Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, Another Period) will play therapist Dr Valerie Kinbott, who takes great interest in latest patient, Wednesday Addams.

Hunter Doohan (Your Honor, Truth Be Told) will play Tyler Galpin, the son of Sheriff Donovan who becomes friends with Wednesday.

Georgie Farmer (Treadstone, The Evermoor Chronicles) will play Ajax Petropolus, a student at Nevermore who happens to be a Gorgon and a difficulty with making eye contact.

Moosa Mostafa (Nativity Rocks!, The Last Bus) will play Eugene Otinger, president of the school’s bee-keeping club.

Emma Myers (Girl in the Basement, Taste of Christmas) will play Enid Sinclair, Wednesday’s sunny Californian roommate at Nevermore, who happens to be a werewolf.

Naomi J Ogawa (Skylin3s) will play Yoko Tanaka, a cool kid at Nevermore who happens to be vampire.

Joy Sunday (Dear White People, The Beta Test) will play Bianca Barclay, a popular student of Nevermore, who happens to be a Siren.

Percy Hynes White (The Gifted, Pretty Hard Cases) will play Xavier Thorpe, an artistic student at Nevermore who is the son of a wealthy celebrity psychic.

The series is written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, who will serve as showrunners, while Burton will make his TV directorial debut with the project. All three will exec-produce the show.

 

Catherine Zeta-Jones to play Morticia in Netflix’s Wednesday Addams series

11th August 2021

Netflix’s new incarnation of the Addams Family just keeps adding new members, with the matriarch of the household now in place – played by Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Tim Burton’s coming-of-age comedy, called Wednesday, will see everyone’s favourite maiden of the macabre graduate into a fully fledged leading lady. The eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body and preparing for the dreaded underworld known as adulthood.

Jane the Virgin’s Jenny Ortega will play Wednesday, with Luis Guzmán (Narcos, The Last Stand, Traffic) playing her father, Gomez Addams. Now, the family’s found its latest member, with Zeta-Jones stepping into Morticia Addams’ shoes. She’s previously been played by Angelica Juston, Daryl Hannah and, more recently, Charlize Theron in the 2019 animated film.

Burton will make his TV directorial debut with Netflix’s series. The creative team also includes Andrew Mittman for 1.21 (The Addams Family, Alphas), Kevin Miserocchi (Tee and Charles Addams Foundation), Kayla Alpert (Code Black, Up All Night), Jonathan Glickman for Glickmania (RESPECT, Addams Family 2), and Gail Berman (The Addams Family, Alphas).

 

Luis Guzmán joins Netflix’s Wednesday Addams series

9th August 2021

Luis Guzmán has joined the cast of Wednesday, Netflix’s live-action Addams Family series.

Tim Burton’s coming-of-age comedy will see everyone’s favorite maiden of the macabre graduate into a fully fledged leading lady. The eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body and preparing for the dreaded underworld known as adulthood. 

Burton will make his TV directorial debut with the series. The creative team also includes Andrew Mittman for 1.21 (The Addams Family, Alphas), Kevin Miserocchi (Tee and Charles Addams Foundation), Kayla Alpert (Code Black, Up All Night), Jonathan Glickman for Glickmania (RESPECT, Addams Family 2), and Gail Berman (The Addams Family, Alphas).

Jane the Virgin’s Jenny Ortega will play Wednesday. Now, she’s got company with Luis Guzmán (Narcos, The Last Stand, Traffic) playing her father, Gomez Addams.

Guzmán follows in the footsteps of John Astin, Raul Julia and Tim Curry as the patriarch of the Addams Family, as well as Oscar Isaac in the 2019 animated film.

 

Jenna Ortega to play Wednesday Addams in Netflix series

20th May 2021

Jenna Ortega will take the lead role in Wednesday, Tim Burton’s new Addams Family series for Netflix.

Netflix and MGM/UA are producing the coming-of-age comedy, which will will see everyone’s favorite maiden of the macabre graduate into a fully fledged leading lady. The eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body and preparing for the dreaded underworld known as adulthood.

With Tim Burton making his TV directorial debut, and Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar writing, the talent involved in the project is already enough to intrigue. Now, the show’s beginning to assemble its cast, with the Jane the Virgin star stepping into the iconic Addams daughter’s shoes.

Ortega is no stranger to Netflix, having starred in Season 2 of Netflix’s You and the recent family comedy Yes Day. She takes on the role after Christine Ricci played Wednesday in the Addams Family’s last live-action outings, the feature films The Addams Family and Addams Family Values.

“New chapter. Hope I can do Wednesday Addams justice *snaps twice*” she wrote on Instagram, announcing the news.
 

Wednesday: Tim Burton to direct Netflix Addams Family series

17th February 2021

Tim Burton is heading to Netflix for Wednesday, a new live-action Addams Family series.

Netflix and MGM/UA are producing the coming-of-age comedy, which will will see everyone’s favorite maiden of the macabre graduate into a fully fledged leading lady.

The eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body and preparing for the dreaded underworld known as adulthood. 

Burton will make his television directorial debut with the series. The creative team also includes Andrew Mittman for 1.21 (The Addams Family, Alphas), Kevin Miserocchi (Tee and Charles Addams Foundation), Kayla Alpert (Code Black, Up All Night), Jonathan Glickman for Glickmania (RESPECT, Addams Family 2), and Gail Berman (The Addams Family, Alphas).

”When we first heard Al Gough and Miles Millar’s pitch for Wednesday we were struck, like an arrow from a crossbow, right in our hearts,” said Teddy Biaselli, Netflix’s Director of Original Series, in a post announcing the project. “Adolescence is an awful time for everyone. We’re growing hair in weird places, getting taller, breaking out, and all we want is for people to like us. She is the ultimate lone wolf. She marches to her own beat… and it’s likely a funeral dirge.“

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