Tim Burton is set to direct a live-action TV series focusing on Wednesday Addams from The Addams Family for Netflix.
The eight-part series called Wednesday will mark the revered director's TV debut and is described as "a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday's years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy."
Based on the character originally created by cartoonist Charles Addams, Wednesday is a "coming-of-age comedy" set during the death-obsessed youngster's school years.
Teddy Biaselli, Netflix’s director of original series, said viewers will see Wednesday attempting "to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the local town and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago."
Wednesday was first introduced – though without a name – in Addams’ original 1938 cartoons for the New Yorker.
She and the rest of her family – including father Gomez and mother Morticia – were given names for the classic 1964 TV series.
Christina Ricci played Wednesday in 1991 film The Addams Family and its 1993 sequel.
A 2019 animated film version featured Chloe Grace Moretz as the voice of Wednesday.
