Netflix is rebooting the Addams Family with Tim Burton in the director’s seat and Catherine Zeta-Jones to star as famous creepy matriarch, Morticia Addams.
The Welsh Oscar-winner will star opposite Luis Guzmán, who’s recently been spotted out and about in Cardiff as he’s in Wales to shoot Havoc with Tom Hardy. The Boogie Nights and Carlito’s Way actor will be Gomez.
The Netflix TV show, called Wednesday, will focus on Wednesday Addams and be a coming-of-age comedy starring Yes Day and You’s Jenna Ortega as the titular character.
Burton will make his television directorial debut in the show which will follow Wednesday as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy, her 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.
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Zeta-Jones’ role in the Netflix series follows hot on the heels of her appearance in Prodigal Son opposite Michael Sheen. She’s also been spotted on her social media holidaying with her Welsh family in Majorca.
The Addams Family has been a long-time TV classic, first airing in the 1960s as a live-action sitcom with John Astin and Carolyn Jones, then it hit the big screen in the 1990s with Raul Julia and Anjelica Houston, and has had many animated iterations.
The new eight-part show for Netflix is currently in pre-production.
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