Gwendoline Christie Joins Tim Burton’s Wednesday TV Series

I don’t know if Tim Burton’s Wednesday TV sequence shall be any good, nevertheless it has been already been immensely profitable in a single regard: the casting. Somehow, it solely will get extra spectacular—particularly now that Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie will be a part of Luis Guzman’s Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Morticia.

Christie will play an all-new character named Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore Academy, the college Wednesday Addams (Jenny Ortega) attends. Apparently, Weems “still has an axe to grind with her former classmate Morticia Addams.” She’s presumably going to take out a few of that lingering resentment on Morticia’s daughter—an issue Wednesday doesn’t want, as she’s already going to must “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,” based on the present’s official synopsis.

Tim Burton’s directorial TV debut additionally star Issac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, George Burcea as Lurch, and Victor Dorobantu because the disembodied hand Thing, in addition to Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Tommie Earl Jenkins, Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Iman Marson, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Sunday, William Houston, Percy Hynes White, Oliver Watson, Calum Ross, and Johnna Dias Watson. Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar will function showrunners and writers for the eight-episode sequence, which has been described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery” and “comedic coming-of-age” present.

If you’ve seen 2019’s nice movie The Personal History of David Copperfield, the place Christie performs the drolly sinister Jane Murdstone, you already know she’s going to be good for the present. Meanwhile, Wednesday isn’t Christie’s solely nerd-friendly, upcoming Netflix sequence; she’s enjoying Lucifer within the live-action adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s intensely awaited Sandman comics.

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