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On Wednesday, Netflix unveiled the first teaser for two-time Oscar nominee Tim Burton’s live-action coming-of-age comedy series Wednesday centered on Addams Family teen Wednesday Addams.
Jenny Ortega stars as the titular character who, in the first moments of the trailer, releases piranhas into the Nancy Reagan High School swimming pool to maim a water polo player who bullied her brother Pugsley.
‘The only person who gets to torture my brother is me,’ Wednesday states before cracking a creepy smile.
On Wednesday, Netflix unveiled the first teaser for two-time Oscar nominee Tim Burton’s live-action coming-of-age comedy series Wednesday centered on Addams Family teen Wednesday Addams
‘I did the world a favor. People like Dalton shouldn’t be allowed to procreate. Getting expelled was just a bonus.’
The cartoonish sequence only further perpetuated myths about South America’s predatory fresh water fish, whose attacks are rarely fatal to humans – mostly causing bites to their feet and hands.
Considering Wednesday had been kicked out of ‘eight schools in five years’ her father Gomez Addams (Luis Guzmán) said: ‘You will love Nevermore [Academy]. It’s a magical place where I met your mother.’
Her mother Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones) added: ‘Finally, you will be among peers who understand you. Maybe you’ll even make some friends.’
Jenny Ortega stars as the titular character who, in the first moments of the trailer, releases piranhas into the Nancy Reagan High School swimming pool to maim a water polo player who bullied her brother Pugsley
Wednesday states: ‘The only person who gets to torture my brother is me’
She then cracked a creepy smile: ‘I did the world a favor. People like Dalton shouldn’t be allowed to procreate. Getting expelled was just a bonus’
Vicious! The cartoonish sequence only further perpetuated myths about South America’s predatory fresh water fish, whose attacks are rarely fatal to humans – mostly causing bites to their feet and hands
Nevermore Academy is basically Hogwarts where Wednesday ‘masters her psychic powers and solves a supernatural mystery which embroiled her parents 25 years ago’ – according to Deadline.
Perky Nevermore student Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers) asks Wednesday: ‘Want to take a stab at being social?’
And the angsty teen replies: ‘I do like stabbing.’
Wednesday is seen thriving in her fencing class and cello lessons.
Considering Wednesday had been kicked out of ‘eight schools in five years’ her father Gomez Addams (Luis Guzmán) said: ‘You will love Nevermore [Academy]. It’s a magical place where I met your mother’
Her mother Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones) added: ‘Finally, you will be among peers who understand you. Maybe you’ll even make some friends’
Really? Nevermore Academy is basically Hogwarts where Wednesday ‘masters her psychic powers and solves a supernatural mystery which embroiled her parents 25 years ago’
‘Little did I know I’d be stepping into a nightmare full of mystery, mayhem, and murder,’ she notes.
‘I think I’m going to love it here.’
Emmy nominee Gwendoline Christie portrays Nevermore Academy headmaster Larissa Weems.
The streaming giant drops all eight episodes of creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar’s Addams Family spin-off in ‘the fourth quarter of 2022.’
Perky Nevermore student Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers) asks Wednesday: ‘Want to take a stab at being social?’
And the angsty teen replies: ‘I do like stabbing’
Not bad: Wednesday is seen thriving in her fencing class and cello lessons
She notes: ‘Little did I know I’d be stepping into a nightmare full of mystery, mayhem, and murder. I think I’m going to love it here’
The Addams Family was originally created by American cartoonist Charles Addams back in 1938.
12 actresses have taken on the part of the deadpan, death-obsessed seven-year-old – most memorably Christina Ricci in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993).
Chloë Grace Moretz was the most recent to voice Wednesday in Universal Pictures’ 2019 animated movie The Addams Family and its sequel, which hits US theaters October 1.
‘You sadly had a very interesting educational journey’: Emmy nominee Gwendoline Christie portrays Nevermore Academy headmaster Larissa Weems
‘It’s getting dark in this little heart of mine’: 12 actresses have taken on the part of the deadpan, death-obsessed seven-year-old – most memorably Christina Ricci in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993)
Iconic character: Chloë Grace Moretz (R) was the most recent to voice Wednesday in Universal Pictures’ 2019 animated movie The Addams Family and its sequel, which hits US theaters October 1