Gwendoline Christie to play Morticia Addams’ nemesis in Tim Burton’s Wednesday
Netflix also announced who will play some of the classic Addams Family characters
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Gwendoline Christie hasn’t been on our TVs since the Game Of Thrones finale in 2019. Now, in addition to being set to star as Lucifer in Netflix’s upcoming Sandman, the actor will also be a series regular on the streaming giant’s Wednesday. Christie will play Larissa Weems, the principal of Wednesday’s magical school Nevermore Academy, who is described in the press release as having “an axe to grind with her former classmate Morticia Adams.” With Morticia as her nemesis, it’s expected that Larissa will brew up some trouble for Wednesday.
Netflix also shared who will play some other classic Addams Family characters: Isaac Ordonez will play Wednesday’s brother, Pugsley; Victor Dorobantu will be the disembodied hand, Thing; and George Burcea will be the Addams’ towering butler, Lurch (for those wondering how tall this guy is, he’s apparently 6'3). Netflix also shared some of the casting for new characters, including Tommie Earl Jenkins as Mayor Walker, Iman Marson as Lucas Walker, William Houston as Joseph Crackstone, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Deputy Santiago, Oliver Watson as Kent, Calum Ross as Rowan, and Johnna Dias Watson as Divina. Netflix previously announced that You’s Jenna Ortega will play Wednesday, with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán playing her parents, Morticia and Gomez. Thora Birch has also signed on for the series.
This upcoming series won’t be your typical Addams Family retelling. This time, the story follows Wednesday as she goes to a school for children with supernatural abilities, so our favorite spooky parents Gomez and Morticia won’t be onscreen as much. Oh, and yeah, Wednesday has superpowers in this version. The logline reads: “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.”
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So basically a rip-off of Harry Potter, Sabrina and The Addams Family all wrapped up in a tidy whole.
Well, I dunno about the ‘tidy’.
Suddenly realizes that Tim Burton is involved
“It’s exactly like Harry Potter but different! Wackyness ensues!”- Pitch to studios
The one liner for this show sounds awful, but the cast sounds decidedly not awful.
Morticia has a nemesis? I imagine any nemesis of Morticia’s turning up real dead.
I think of Morticia as too cool to have a nemesis. As in, someone could waste her entire life hating Morticia and Morticia would just be doing cool Morticia stuff.I may have had a crush on Morticia.
Ignoring their existence would likely be Morticia’s method of handling them.
Where’s the sexy Munsters reboot with a super hot Eddie in college solving paranormal crimes?
“Challenge accepted!”- Spokesperson for Berlanti Productions.
This is rapidly turning into a Victorian melodrama.
That still sounds like a good thing.
Well there go my plans for having Boban Marjonovic play Lurch. He was good in “John Wick 3″ and definitely has the towering physicality for the role. Plus, his only lines would likely be “You Rang?” so it’d be nigh impossible to screw up. And I want to see him in a tuxedo.
Where da Fester!?