‘Wednesday’: synopsis, cast, trailer and official release date on Netflix

It’s been a while since we first saw Jenna Ortega holding a script you could read on’wednesday‘. It was the first image of the series that I was preparing Netflix around wednesday addams, probably the most iconic member of the Addams Family. A series that also had a great name behind the cameras such as Tim Burtonwho after making headlines for opening his own exhibition in Madrid and becoming the capital’s favorite son, now premieres a series on Netflix.

wednesday It starts with Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) being expelled from the institute once again, this time for throwing piranhas into the pool, and with a history of conduct that is inappropriate for a girl her age. That is why their parents Morticia Y Gomez They decide to transfer the young woman to the Nevermore Academy, where they met and where they think they will be able to educate the rebellious and gloomy teenager. The series will follow Wednesday’s life trying to adjust to this new center and dealing with other classmates who have their own spooky magical problems.

In addition to producing the series, Tim Burton is in charge of directing the eight episodes that it will consist of. It will be the expected return of the director of Edward Scissorhands After a few years away from the cameras after the premiere of Dumbo. The last stage of the director’s career Batman It has been called into question with the latest films and here you will have a new opportunity to vindicate yourself in a genre that you dominate perfectly, such as horror with a touch of comedy.

Cast: Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones… and the return of Christina Ricci

To do this, the director will also have an exceptional cast, in which there are many familiar faces and others to discover. Everything will be headed by Jenna Ortegawho gives life to Wednesday and whom we have already been able to see in the latest installment of scream, in the series You or in the recent X of Ti Westso his worth in terror despite his youth (he just turned 19) is more than proven.

Completing the Addams Family, we will have nothing less than Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia already Luis Guzman like Gomez. But the interesting thing will be in the Academy, where we will find the director Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie), Tamara Novak (Thora Birch) or Wednesday’s new companions, Enid (Emma Myers) and Bianca (Joy Sunday). All of them must be added to Cristina Ricciwho once played Wednesday in the movies of The Addams Family and who will return here in a role yet to be known.

Trailer and release date

Fans of the Addams Family in general and of Wednesday in particular are in luck, because they won’t have to wait long to see the series. Netflix confirmed that the series will arrive on November 23 to the platform, as well as released the first official trailer for the series, in which we finally see what Nevermore Academy or Wednesday itself will look like in action.

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