Although Tim Burton is finest recognized for his horror-comedy characteristic movies like Beetlejuice , Corpse Bride, and Edward Scissorhands, in addition to his writing and manufacturing contributions to The Nightmare Before Christmas (which was really directed by Henry Selick!), his latest undertaking focuses on the small display. During his journey to the Lucca Comics and Games convention in Italy final week, Variety shared the dialogue the place Burton defined why he needed to do Wednesday.

Burton stated that he “grew up watching the [Addams Family] TV series,” in addition to the cartoon collection by Charles Addams. But it was the Wednesday character herself that drew him to the present, and now this collection. “I feel like Wednesday. I’ve felt like Wednesday since I was a teenager, even though I was a boy,” Burton stated, explaining that “the snarky, snide teenager has the same kind of viewpoint as I do, the same kind of black and white viewpoint.”

The spinoff stars Jenna Ortega (You) because the titular character, and the solid is already fairly stacked, with Gwendoline Christie and Christina Ricci showing in all eight episodes. The collection may also embody visitor appearances from Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams and Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams.

At the conference, Burton agreed that the collection might be learn as an outline of mentally sick characters studying to deal with their sickness. “I’ve had mental health issues myself my whole life, so I understand it,” Burton stated when requested. But for him, the actual pathos of the present is extra common. “Wednesday goes to a school of outcasts, but she’s an outcast among outcasts… So, even though she’s at a place for people like her, she doesn’t like to join the party.”

Wednesday premiers on Netflix on November 23.

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