Netflix's Creepy, Kooky and Spooky Full 'Wednesday' Trailer Is Here — Complete with Christina Ricci
This Tim Burton-directed series heads to high school with Wednesday Addams — and features Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester.
Addams Family fans, it's time to get a witch's shawl on and a broomstick you can crawl on, because Netflix — and Tim Burton — are gonna pay a call on popular culture's most famous supernatural brood. Come November, the streaming platform will release Wednesday, the high school-set series about the eerie family's teenage daughter. And, in a way, there's more than one Wednesday on offer.
To answer the obvious question, yes, the show will drop on a Wednesday: Wednesday, November 23, in fact. To answer your next two queries, yes, Christina Ricci is among the cast — but no, she isn't playing the titular role, because that honour goes to Jenna Ortega.
Ortega is having quite the year, especially when it comes to horror. This new take on The Addams Family follows her roles in Scream, Studio 666 and X already in 2022. When she shares the screen with Ricci, as seen in the just-dropped new Wednesday trailer, the latter plays Nevermore Academy teacher Marilyn Thornill.
As also shown in the initial teaser trailer from back in August, Wednesday obviously focuses on its namesake — aka the Addams' eldest child, who plenty of teenage girls with long black hair have been compared to for decades. Wednesday is indeed a teen in the new series, and she has been terrorising her way through schools, hopping through eight of them in five years. Now she's ended up at Nevermore Academy, where her mother introduces her with an apology: "please excuse Wednesday, she's allergic to colour".
Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Prodigal Son) actually met Gomez (Luis Guzmán, Hightown) at the school, and they think that she'll love it — but clearly Wednesday's storyline isn't going to be that straightforward. While she's there, she'll have a monstrous killing spree to stop, and a supernatural mystery linked to her parents a quarter-century ago to solve.
Sleuthing, high-school antics and all things Addams Family: that's the spell that Wednesday plans to cast. Also part of the series, as seen in the sneak peeks so far: a creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky vibe, as befitting a family that has been around for 84 years now, and just keeps scampering around screens big and small like a mischievous severed limb.
Wednesday treads in huge footsteps, given that this isn't the first time that The Addams Family has made the leap from a beloved cartoon in The New Yorker to the screen. The 1960s TV series is a gem of the era, and 1991's live-action film The Addams Family and its 1993 sequel Addams Family Values — starring Ricci as Wednesday — are two of the best movies of that decade. (The less said about the recent animated flick and its own follow-up, however, the better.)
In Burton, the show boasts a director who could easily be one of the altogether-ooky crew's long-lost relatives, and has spent his entire career channelling their gothic aesthetic.
In fact, the trailers look like Burton is filtering his Frankenweenie, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands vibes through Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children — so, it looks exactly like a Tim Burton-directed version of The Addams Family was always going to.
Netflix's eight-part series also stars Isaac Ordonez (A Wrinkle in Time) as Pugsley and George Burcea (Comrade Detective) as Lurch, while Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie is also set to pop up.
And, in the latest trailer, the new Uncle Fester is revealed — as played by Fred Armisen (Los Espookys).
Check out the full trailer for Wednesday below:
Wednesday will stream via Netflix from Wednesday, November 23.
Images: Courtesy of Netflix © 2022.
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