Wednesday is the 2022 live-action Netflix television series produced by MGM based on characters from Charles Addams' comic strip The Addams Family.
Jenna Ortega (You, The Babysitter: Killer Queen) is cast in the lead role. Luis Guzman (Shameless) is set to recur as Gomez Addams while Catherine Zeta-Jones is set to play Morticia. Additional members of the core family are played by Victor Dorobantu as Thing, Issac Ordonez as Pugsley, George Burcea as Lurch.
Netflix initially provided these details of the show: "The upcoming eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting [Wednesday Addams’] years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Wednesday's 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."
Hunter Doohan (Your Honor) is set to play Tyler Galpin, a student at Nevermore Academy that takes a liking to Wednesday but is at odds with his own father. Emma Myers will play Wednesday's roommate Enid Sinclair, whose sunny, upbeat persona is the opposite of Wednesday's. Also cast as students, some of whom have supernatural abilities, are Georgie Farmer (Evermoor) as Ajax Petropolus (a Gorgon), Moosa Mostafa as quirky Eugene Otinger, Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka (a vampire), Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay (a siren) and Percy Hynes White (The Gifted) as Xavier Thorpe, a supernaturally-gifted artist.
Also cast are Gwendoline Christie as Nevermore principal (and Morticia's nemesis) Larissa Weemes, Riki Lindhome (Knives Out) as Dr. Valerie Kinbott, Wednesday's therapist and Jamie McShane (SEAL Team) as Sheriff Donovan Galpin, father to Tyler and arch-rival of Gomez Addams himself, Tommie Earl Jenkins as Mayor Walker, Iman Marson as Lucas Walker, William Houston as Joseph Crackstone, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Deputy Santiago, Oliver Watson as Kent, Calum Ross as Rowan and Johnna Dias Watson as Divina. Thora Birch (The Walking Dead) had been cast as Tamar Novak, the dorm mother who has no connection to the supernatural, but reportedly left the production early on to deal with a personal matter.
Director Tim Burton, along with Smallville producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are developing the show. Gough and Millar are showrunning with Burton directing. Also producing are Andrew Mittman, Kevin Miserocchi, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman and Gail Berman.
