Last October it was reported that director Tim Burton, along with Smallville producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar were developing a new TV series take on The Addams Family. Now Teddy Biaselli, director of Original Series at Netflix, has announced details of the show, which the streamer will be developing with MGM.
The series is called Wednesday, putting the focus on the young adult version of everyone's favorite nightmare schoolgirl.
Biaselli says, "The upcoming eight-episode series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s 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."
Gough and Millar are showrunning with Burton directing. Also producing are Andrew Mittman, Kevin Miserocchi, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman and Gail Berman.
