Catherine Zeta-Jones Joins Netflix 'Addams Family' Series
by EG
Catherine Zeta-Jones will join the cast of an upcoming Netflix original series featuring characters from The Addams Family TV series. The new series will focus on daughter Wednesday Addams and will be produced and directed by The Nightmare Before Christmas director Tim Burton. Zeta-Jones will play the family's matriarch, Morticia. Read on for details.
Netflix’s upcoming Tim Burton Addams Family drama series Wednesday has found its Morticia.
Catherine Zeta-Jones has been tapped to serve as a guest star and play the matriarch in the eight-episode series from director Burton and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville, Into the Badlands).
Wednesday is described as a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.
Yes Day and You grad Jenna Ortega will star as Wednesday in the live-action series. Luis Guzman (Shameless) was recently cast as Gomez, the patriarch in the Addams family.
Zeta-Jones is fresh off an arc in Fox’s Prodigal Son and counts features Chicago, Traffic and Ocean’s Twelve among her credits. She’s repped by UTA.
Burton will direct and exec produce Wednesday.
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