Filmmaker Tim Burton steps into the macabre and supernatural world of the Addams Family with new collection Wednesday.
The Netflix present, releasing on November 23, is predicated on Wednesday Addams, often seen as a toddler in earlier Addams Family reveals or films, however now at a highschool for outcasts, attempting to harness her psychic powers and being a youngster.
Tim Burton, identified for mixing the bizarre and charming in movies which embrace Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish, directs the primary 4 of eight episodes of the brand new collection. “I feel like it was written for me because…I felt like I was her as a boy in school,” Burton instructed Reuters on the Lucca Comics and Games popular culture pageant in Italy.
“That feeling about family, school, technology, therapy, it just spoke to me…so it was very easy to identify with all of that. The Addams Family has been done very well in different ways. I just like the idea of focusing on Wednesday and seeing her as a teenager.”
The collection addresses trauma and psychological well being with Wednesday, performed by Jenna Ortega, visiting a therapist – scenes Tim Burton mentioned had been vital to him personally. “I still have issues…I feel very lucky…I had an outlet, whether it’s drawing or making films, to sort of exercise some of those demons and deal with some of those issues,” Burton mentioned.
“And so seeing her…and how she deals with it was important to me.”
Wednesday stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman as Wednesday’s mother and father, Morticia and Gomez Addams, whereas Christina Ricci, who portrayed Wednesday in two Nineteen Nineties movies, performs instructor Miss Thornhill.
Ricci beforehand labored with Burton on Sleepy Hollow, alongside Johnny Depp, a frequent Burton collaborator. Asked if he would work once more with Depp, who’s attempting to rebuild his profession after an unsightly defamation combat together with his ex-wife Amber Heard, Burton mentioned: “If the right thing was around then sure.”
“I don’t really have any I’m going to work with my ex-wife or my friends or this or that because…I just do things because I want to do them.”
