{"id":39383,"date":"2022-06-06T20:33:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T20:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wednesday-addams-gets-creepy-upgrade-in-netflix-tv-series\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T20:33:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T20:33:28","slug":"wednesday-addams-gets-creepy-upgrade-in-netflix-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wednesday-addams-gets-creepy-upgrade-in-netflix-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Addams gets creepy upgrade in Netflix TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Wednesday Addams is looking a little different these days.<\/p>\n<p>A teaser for Netflix and Tim Burton&#8217;s upcoming Addams family TV series, \u201cWednesday,\u201d featuring Jenna Ortega in the eponymous role, dropped Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetflix woefully presents a twisted new series from the mind of Tim Burton,\u201d text in the trailer reads, noting that the show would be \u201ccoming soon\u201d to the streamer.<\/p>\n<p>Ortega&#8217;s take on the only daughter of the iconic macabre fam appears as a stern, cold-faced teen.  However, her outfit di lei is more pop-punk than goth and her dark makeup and braids di lei both have a modern flair.<\/p>\n<p>Thing &#8211; the ominous severed hand in the Addams family mansion &#8211; also makes an appearance in the trailer alongside the 19-year-old \u201cScream 5\u201d star.<\/p>\n<p>The footage features Wednesday snapping her fingers and twirling her jet-black hair into braids as the hand rests on her shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>She also sports ink-colored lipstick and a black polka-dot dress.  A release date has yet to be set for the coming-of-age horror series.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wednesday Addams Revealed | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4QHrAcZalc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The new series will follow the teen during her years at Nevermore Academy as she tries to control her psychic powers. <\/p>\n<p>She also encounters a serial killer who is terrorizing the local town, and the show will chronicle her attempts to uncover a supernatural mystery that involved her parents Gomez and Morticia Addams 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzm\u00e1n will portray her parents, while Gwendoline Christie, Hunter Doohan, Thora Birch, Percy Hynes White, Joy Sunday, Emma Myers, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane and Georgie Farmer round out the main cast.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Ortega darkens the streaming screen as Wednesday Addams in the new Netflix series of the same name.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Christina Ricci will also make an appearance in the new show, having famously portrayed Wednesday in the 1991 Barry Sonnenfeld-directed comedy &#8220;The Addams Family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmallville\u201d creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar penned the script for the eight-episode series, with Burton directing. <\/p>\n<p>Ricci, 42, praised Ortega&#8217;s iteration of the character in April during a panel at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania&#8217;s Steel City Con.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPan Am\u201d star noted, \u201cI just finished it two weeks ago, and it was great.  It was great working with Tim [Burton], and Jenna is amazing.  I think people are going to absolutely love her as Wednesday. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>She then stated that Christie, 43, of &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; fame is &#8220;incredible,&#8221; also adding that &#8220;all the kids in it are really fantastic, so I think it&#8217;s gonna be great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday Addams is looking a little different these days. A teaser for Netflix and Tim Burton&#8217;s upcoming Addams family TV series, \u201cWednesday,\u201d featuring Jenna Ortega in the eponymous role, dropped Monday. \u201cNetflix woefully presents a twisted new series from the mind of Tim Burton,\u201d text in the trailer reads, noting that the show would be &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wednesday-addams-gets-creepy-upgrade-in-netflix-tv-series\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday Addams gets creepy upgrade in Netflix TV series<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[14732,14,967,7097,2138],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/adams-family-netflix-02.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}