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They\u2019re creepy and they\u2019re kooky, mysterious and spooky \u2014 and coming to Netflix<\/a>. Tim Burton<\/strong><\/a> is directing a new Addams Family<\/em> spinoff series about Wednesday Addams, appropriately titled Wednesday<\/em>.<\/p>\n The streaming service announced the series<\/a> in February 2021 and revealed the first look at the show\u2019s artwork, which showed a silhouetted Wednesday playing the cello with a large knife instead of a bow.<\/p>\n Few other details about the eight-episode series have been released, but given Burton\u2019s affection for horror-inspired, goth-tinged aesthetics<\/a>, he and the Addamses should be a great fit.<\/p>\n The director, who will make his first foray into television with Wednesday<\/em>, rose to prominence in the 1980s with Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure<\/em>, Beetlejuice<\/em> and Batman<\/em>. His next project, 1990\u2019s Edward Scissorhands<\/em>, arguably made stars of Johnny Depp<\/a><\/strong> and Winona Ryder<\/a><\/strong> (and was memorably parodied by Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a><\/strong> in a 2021 Super Bowl commercial<\/a>).<\/p>\n Throughout his career, he\u2019s repeatedly collaborated with many of the same actors, including Depp, Michael Keaton<\/strong><\/a>, Christina Ricci<\/strong><\/a>, Michelle Pfeiffer<\/strong><\/a> and his ex-girlfriend<\/a>, Helena Bonham Carter<\/strong><\/a>. So far, none of those people have been announced as having any involvement in Wednesday<\/em>, but it doesn\u2019t hurt to dream about a bewigged Pfeiffer as family matriarch Morticia.<\/p>\n The Addams Family<\/em> began as a series of single-panel New Yorker<\/em> cartoons drawn by illustrator Charles Addams, running from 1938 until his death in 1988. The first Hollywood adaptation was a half-hour sitcom that ran from 1964 to 1966. Two animated series followed in 1973 and 1992, and a live-action series titled The New Addams Family<\/em> ran from 1998 to 2001.<\/p>\n