By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Catherine Zeta-Jones has been tapped to play the position of Morticia Addams, the matriarch of the Addams Family, within the Netflix collection “Wednesday”.
The present marks the small display directorial debut for Tim Burton, identified for “Beetlejuice”, “Edward Scissorhands”, and “Alice in Wonderland”.
Zeta-Jones joins Luis Guzman who will seem as Gomez Addams and Jenna Ortega, who takes on the titular character.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Wednesday” is described as a coming-of-age comedy, written by “Smallville” creators Al Gough and Miles Millar.
The collection is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused thriller charting Wednesday Addams’ (Ortega) years as a pupil at Nevermore Academy.
That’s the place she makes an attempt to grasp her rising psychic capacity, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the native city, and resolve the supernatural thriller that embroiled her mother and father 25 years in the past — all whereas navigating her new and really tangled relationships.
Actors who’ve beforehand performed Morticia Addams embody the likes of Anjelica Huston, Charlize Theron, Daryl Hannah and Carolyn Jones.
Besides course, Burton additionally govt produces with Gough and Millar, who will function showrunners on the collection.
TV writer-producer Kayla Alpert, former MGM TV President Steve Stark, in addition to a number of producers related to “The Addams Family” IP: Andrew Mittman for 1.21, Kevin Miserocchi, Jonathan Glickman for Glickmania and Gail Berman.
“Wednesday” is produced by MGM Television, which controls the underlying rights to the IP.
