They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky and coming to Netflix. Tim Burton is directing a new Addams Family spinoff series about Wednesday Addams, appropriately titled Wednesday.
The streaming service announced the series in February 2021 and revealed the first look at the show’s artwork, which showed a silhouetted Wednesday playing the cello with a large knife instead of a bow.
Few other details about the eight-episode series have been released, but given Burton’s affection for horror-inspired, goth-tinged aesthetics, he and the Addamses should be a great fit.
The director, who will make his first foray into television with Wednesday, rose to prominence in the 1980s with Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Batman. His next project, 1990’s Edward Scissorhands, arguably made stars of Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder (and was memorably parodied by Timothée Chalamet in a 2021 Super Bowl commercial).
Throughout his career, he’s repeatedly collaborated with many of the same actors, including Depp, Michael Keaton, Christina Ricci, Michelle Pfeiffer and his ex-girlfriend, Helena Bonham Carter. So far, none of those people have been announced as having any involvement in Wednesday, but it doesn’t hurt to dream about a bewigged Pfeiffer as family matriarch Morticia.
