Moriticia or Lily?
Posted on 10/22/2020 11:20:09 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Get ready to get reacquainted with an altogether ooky family: A live-action sequel series to The Addams Family is in the works, with Tim Burton onboard as an executive producer, our sister site Deadline is reporting.
The new series, which is produced by MGM Television and is currently being shopped to networks and streamers, would be set in present day and focus on a grown-up Wednesday Addams and “what the world would look like to her in 2020,” per the official description.
In addition to serving as an EP, Burton is also working on a deal to direct all episodes of the series. (Burton is well known for directing films with a Gothic and horror bent, from Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow to a big-screen take on the TV vampire soap Dark Shadows.) Smallville veterans Alfred Gough and Miles Millar will be head writers of the new series and serve as showrunners as well as EPs.
The Addams Family, based on Charles Addams’ cartoons, debuted as a TV series in 1964 on ABC, running for two seasons and starring John Astin and Carolyn Jones as parents Gomez and Morticia Addams. The sitcom centered on an eccentric family of macabre outcasts, including Uncle Fester, disembodied hand Thing and hairy relative Cousin It. It inspired a 1991 film adaptation and a 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values, along with multiple animated series and a Broadway musical.
Meant “Gender studies”
Astin came into the gas station i worked at about once a week he was funny humble and generous
An orange-man will do bad things.
Meh. Unless Christopher Lloyd deigns to do Fester on TV, I’m not interested, though I’d probably watch John Astin, too.
Raul Julia was a great Gomez, RIP.
John Astin is still kicking at 90 years old!................
Cousin IT will now require using the pronouns of “they or them” and will be a pansexual.
Uncle Fester will be black and his name will change to Uncle Lester
Lurch will be played by a little person
Gomez and Morticia will be a mixed raced marriage
Pugsly will be transitioning from a fat boy to a fat girl undergoing hormone treatments
I remember the last time I lived in Ohio I would have occasion to drive through Plain City, right past a medical clinic that was owned by a Dr. Addams.
The sign out at the road said (I kid you not...)
The Addams Family Medical Center {snap, snap} ;)
Yep. It’ll be an anti Trump theme.
Didn’t some director just do an Addams Family update a year ago? Guess Hollywood can’t find any NEW ideas anymore.
That, or they’re too cheap to spend with experimental ideas.
I’m just waiting for a new Green Acres to be filmed and marketed. This time, there will be a big emphasis on the
GREEN part of farm livin’.
But nobody can do “crazy person” like John Astin !
That’s nice to hear. I always got a kick out of the character he played on Night Court as well.
I had a friend who managed a store in Maryland where Fred Gwynne (Herman Munster) would come in all the time.
eb will be a homo that plays with his self behind the agapanthus
Morticia will be latina, Gomez will be black. Uncle Fester will be a Muslim, granny will be a tranny and Wednesday and Pugley will both be non-binary.
There. Saved y’all the trouble of watching. I’ll catch the “Critical Drinker” review. It’ll be fine...
“Wednesday will be a vegan, lesbian, leftist activist and her “wife” will be a general studies professor.”
Wow! Really scary. Creepier and kookier, and ookier than ever!
Moriticia or Lily?
Supposedly some other actress had been cast as Lily before Yvonne DeCarlo, but they had to drop her because in the pilot she looked too much like Morticia.
I don’t know, can Hollywood pull off having a gay black man leaving his lucrative Blue City gig?
Bland Backward People
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