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Wednesday is an American horror comedy streaming television series, based around the character Wednesday Addams of The Addams Family. Produced by MGM Television, the series premiere on Netflix.

Synopsis[]

Wednesday is expelled from her high school after dumping live piranhas into the school's pool while the boys' water poloteam is practicing in retaliation for the team bullying her brother Pugsley. This leads her parents, Gomez and Morticia Addams, to enroll her in Nevermore Academy in Jericho, Vermont, a school for monstrous outcasts once attended by her parents. Wednesday's cold, emotionless personality and her defiant nature make it difficult for her to connect with her schoolmates and cause her to run afoul of the school's principal. However, she discovers she has psychic abilities that help her solve a local murder mystery with the help of Jericho's sheriff.

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Development[]

During pre-production on The Addams Family (1991), Tim Burton was approached to direct, but ended up passing on it due to scheduling conflicts with Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), resulting in Barry Sonnenfeld taking the job.[1] In March 2010, it was announced that Illumination Entertainment had acquired the underlying rights to the Addams Family drawings.[2] The film was planned to be a stop-motion animated film based on Charles Addams's original drawings. Burton was set to co-write, co-produce, and possibly direct the film.[3] In July 2013, it was reported that the film was cancelled,[4] which, according to Burton, was due to the studio favoring a computer-animated approach over the stop-motion technique.

Casting[]

The creative team sought a Latina to play the role of Wednesday Addams to align with character Gomez Addams's heritage, an aspect of the character that was already worked into the series' script. In May 2021, Jenna Ortega, who is of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, was cast in the role. Millar stated that, upon their first Zoom call together, the creative team knew that "nobody else on this planet" was better suited to portray the character.[5]

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Trivia[]

  • This was Tim Burton’s first tv show ever produced.
  • Wednesday's dance from Woe What a Night went viral one month after premiering.
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez, and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo are being upped to series regulars for Season 2.
  • Percy Hynes White and Naomi J Ogawa will not be returning for Season 2, but Jamie McShane has reduced into recurring for Season 2.[6]

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