A new poster for Tim Burton's upcoming Wednesday, an Addams Family spinoff starring Jenna Ortega as the titular character, gives the show a fall release window.
Collider posted a photo taken at Las Vegas' Licensing Expo of a new promo poster for Wednesday. The poster shows a silhouette of Wednesday Adams playing a stringed instrument with a large knife, while the words "Fall 2022" hang underneath.
Wednesday was originally announced as an unnamed Addams Family project being helmed by Burton in October 2020. The Netflix show is described as a coming-of-age adventure focused on the death-obsessed Addams child. Wednesday will reportedly introduce a handful of new elements into the Addams family's lore, including a new supernatural school called Nevermore Academy the character will have to attend.
"The upcoming eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday's years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy," Netflix's director of original series Teddy Biaselli said when the show was announced. "Wednesday's 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 of the strange and diverse student body."
He continued, "We then got the call that visionary director and lifelong Addams Family fan Tim Burton wanted to make his television directorial debut with this series. Tim has had a history of telling empowering stories about social outsiders like Edward Scissorhands, Lydia Deitz, and Batman. And now he brings his unique vision to Wednesday and her spooky classmates at Nevermore Academy."
Burton will direct the series, while Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Miller will serve as showrunners. Along with Scream's Ortega, the show will star Luis Guzmán as Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia. Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday Addams in 1991's The Addams Family and 1993's The Addams Family Values, will also appear in the series in an undisclosed role. Additional cast members include Gwendoline Christie (Larissa Weems), Issac Ordonez (Pugsley Addams), Victor Dorobantu (Thing), George Burcea (Lurch), Tommie Earl Jenkins (Mayor Walker), Iman Marson (Lucas Walker), William Houston (Joseph Crackstone), Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Deputy Santiago), Oliver Watson (Kent), Calum Ross (Rowan) and Johnna Dias Watson (Divina).
Created by Charles Addams in 1938, the Addams Family franchise has delivered vast amounts of creepy and kooky content to fans in a number of formats. First appearing as a cartoon in The New Yorker, the live-action Addams Family television series premiered on ABC in 1964 and aired a total of 64 episodes. In addition to director Barry Sonnenfeld's two 1990s films, the Addams Family also appeared in a number of animated series, specials and films, video games, comics and more.
Wednesday will premiere on Netflix in fall 2022.
Source: Collider