Stars Jenna Ortega and Catherine Zeta-Jones, along with showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, costume designer Colleen Atwood and composer Danny Elfman discuss the perfect marriage of Tim Burton's style and Wednesday Addams' sensibilities in this behind the scenes look at Wednesday. Watch the series November 23 on Netflix.
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, Hunter Doohan (Your Honor) as Tyler Galpin, Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, whose sunny, 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, 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.
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."
Director Tim Burton, along with Smallville producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar developed the show. Gough and Millar are showrunning with Burton directing. Also producing are Andrew Mittman, Kevin Miserocchi, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman and Gail Berman.
