It was recently announced that Tim Burton (Batman, Beetlejuice) had partnered with Netflix to develop a live-action Addams Family spinoff focusing on an older take on Wednesday, and the iconic Addams patriarch has now been cast.
Collider reports that the great Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way, Traffic) is in final talks (the trades have since confirmed that it's a done deal) to play Gomez Addams. He joins Yes Day and You star Jenna Ortega in the title role of Wednesday.
The coming-of-age comedy series, which has Al Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville, Into the Badlands) on board as showrunners, is said to be "a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s 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."
We don't know whether any other members of the creepy, kooky family will appear, but a recent rumor claimed that Christina Ricci - who played Wednesday in the previous live-action movies - is in talks to play Morticia.
Burton is set to make his TV directing debut with the eight-episode series, and will also executive produce alongside Jonathan Glickman, Andrew Mittman, Kayla Alpert, Gail Berman, Steve Stark, and Kevin Miserocchi. No production or premiere dates have been announced.
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