On Wednesday, Netflix's revival of the beloved The Addams Family franchise was given a fall 2022 release date.
An official trailer accompanied the release date announcement, giving us our best look at the gothic dark comedy before it arrives later this year. Just watch out for piranhas in your local pool the next time you go:
The Netflix horror-comedy series will hit the streaming giant at an undisclosed date later this year. However, if we had to guess, we expect Wednesday to be in time for Halloween. And, since it will focus on Wednesday Addams, the death-obsessed, psychic-drenched teen from The Addams Family, a mid-week release would be perfect for Netflix's TV adaptation.
Wednesday stars Jenna Ortega (Scream, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous) as the title character. The supernatural coming-of-age series will follow Wednesday Addams as she navigates teenage life amid many other obstacles. Namely, master his newfound psychic abilities, stop an unknown assassin from going on a rampage in his local town, and solve a 25-year family mystery. All of that in a day's work for a member of the youngest member of the Addams Family (that is, if he fires Pubert), huh?
Ortega is joined by Catherine Zeta-Jones (The Legend of Zorro, Ocean's Twelve) as Addams Family matriarch Morticia, Luis Guzmán (Narcos, Shameless) as husband and father Gomez Addams, and Isaac Ordonez (A Wrinkle in Time). as Wednesday's older brother. . pugsley Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday Addams in the iconic Addams Family films of the 1990s, will appear as someone named Marilyn Thornhill, while Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, The Sandman) is also among the supporting cast. of the program. Christie will play Principal Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore Academy.
Award-winning director Tim Burton, renowned for his classic gothic fantasy and comedy-horror productions including Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd, makes his television directorial debut with Netflix's Wednesday series. Burton's frequent collaborator Danny Elfman is also on board as the show's composer. Miles Millar and Alfred Gough (Into the Badlands, Spider-Man 2, Smallville) are co-showrunners.
All eight episodes on Wednesday will be released exclusively on Netflix when the show finally premieres. If our Halloween 2022 prediction turns out to be correct, there won't be a better TV show to stream during the spooky season than this one.
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