"You Never Leave a Man Behind!"
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.
Brian Stelter will be Uncle Fester. (Happy tip Chris Plante)
"You Never Leave a Man Behind!"
I likeep Tim Button but his Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp was brain dead.
Moriticia
He had a long, rough experience being married to a chronic manic-depressive wife, Patty Duke. (I do not use Bipolar term). Good man.
Thing’s hand will have the addadicktome operation!
‘Tish! Hands down!
They will not bring back Thing as he was shown to be a white supremacist
Good one!!!!
Pretty much anything with Johnny Depp is brain dead. I'm not a huge Burton fan either. "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is one of my very favorite American short stories, and the Burton/Depp/Walken monstrosity was a grotesque distortion.
“I’m just waiting for a new Green Acres to be filmed and marketed”
As long as Arnold the Pig is recast, I’m in. That lil’ feller stole the show!
Yeah, grotesque distortion sounds just about right.
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