LUCCA, Italy, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Filmmaker Tim Burton steps into the macabre and supernatural world of the Addams Household with new sequence “Wednesday”.
The Netflix present, launched on Nov. 23, is predicated on Wednesday Addams, often seen as a baby in earlier Addams Household exhibits or films, however now at a highschool for outcasts, making an attempt to harness her psychic powers and being an adolescent.
Burton, identified for mixing the bizarre and charming in movies which embody “Edward Scissorhands” and “Large Fish”, directs the primary 4 of eight episodes of the brand new sequence.
“I really feel prefer it was written for me as a result of…I felt like I used to be her as a boy at school,” Burton informed Reuters on the Lucca Comics and Video games popular culture pageant in Italy.
“That feeling about household, faculty, know-how, remedy, it simply spoke to me…so it was very straightforward to establish with all of that. The Addams Household has been finished very effectively in numerous methods. I similar to the thought of specializing in Wednesday and seeing her as an adolescent.”
The sequence addresses trauma and psychological well being with Wednesday, performed by Jenna Ortega, visiting a therapist – scenes Burton mentioned had been essential to him personally.
[1/4] Movie director Tim Burton attends a information convention in the course of the Lucca Comics and Video games for the premiere of Netflix’s new sequence ‘Wednesday’ in Lucca, Italy, October 31, 2022. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
“I nonetheless have points…I really feel very fortunate…I had an outlet, whether or not it is drawing or making movies, to type of train a few of these demons and take care of a few of these points,” Burton mentioned.
“And so seeing her…and the way she offers with it was essential to me.”
“Wednesday” stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman as Wednesday’s mother and father, Morticia and Gomez Addams, whereas Christina Ricci, who portrayed Wednesday in two Nineteen Nineties movies, performs trainer Miss Thornhill.
Ricci beforehand labored with Burton on “Sleepy Hole”, alongside Johnny Depp, a frequent Burton collaborator.
Requested if he would work once more with Depp, who’s making an attempt to rebuild his profession after an unsightly defamation struggle along with his ex-wife Amber Heard, Burton mentioned: “If the fitting factor was round then certain.”
“I don’t actually have any I’m going to work with my ex-wife or my associates or this or that as a result of…I simply do issues as a result of I wish to do them.”
Reporting by Alex Fraser; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian, Enhancing by Angus MacSwan
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