Meet the New Addams Family From Tim Burton's 'Wednesday' Vanity Fair

by - October 29, 2023

The Addams Family has taken many forms over the years, from the 1960s-era TV show and the big-budget 1990s movies to a 2010 Broadway musical and, most recently, two offbeat CG-animated features, with each shape-shifting to conform to—or, really, deviate from—the norms of the times.


 In the new Netflix series Wednesday, centered on the family’s ominous only daughter, the household of macabre bons vivants hews closer to the original design of cartoonist Charles Addams that first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker.


Behold, Catherine Zeta-Jones as matriarch Morticia, Luis Guzmán as paterfamilias Gomez, Jenna Ortega as the eponymous Wednesday, and Isaac Ordonez as hapless brother Pugsley. Tim Burton is an executive producer and directed four of the eight episodes, helping to shape the overall look of the series.


 Perhaps the weirdest thing about the show, which will debut this fall, is that he hasn’t made an Addams Family project sooner. UPDATE: A new trailer for the series can be viewed below.


For his first real foray into television, Burton has brought along his longtime collaborator (and four-time Oscar winner) Colleen Atwood as costume designer to give Morticia her signature vampire-chic look and Gomez his fancy-prisoner pinstripes.


Wednesday, who views the world in stark black and white, only wears those same colors—preferably with a razor-sharp collar. Disheveled Pugsley is the only casual one in the clan, perpetually in short pants and horizontal stripes that look like an old-school TV dialed to dead air.

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