Within the wake of the SAG-AFTRA strike decision, Netflix’s monster hit Addams Household sequence is understandably a precedence for the streamer.
Regardless of being accessible for a 12 months, Wednesday‘s recognition endures and the present maintains its #1 spot atop Netflix’s High 10 record for its hottest English-language sequence. That’s due to a powerful 252 million views (up to now!)
The sequence follows the teenage Wednesday (Jenna Ortega), the daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams. Despatched to attend her mother or father’s alma mater, the Nevermore Academy, she finds homicide and thriller at each flip.
Now, a Deadline report means that the present hopes to recommence manufacturing in late-April 2024. Nonetheless, to ease the logistics, filming will now happen in Eire reasonably than Romania.
Wednesday Season 2
Whereas plans are nonetheless understandably beneath wraps, we now have some hints of the place the story may go.
Again in December 2022, co-showrunner Al Gough talked about Wednesday constructing friendships:
“We wanna kind of discover and kind of complicate all of these relationships going ahead. The college was closed after they left, which gave us probably the most prospects for season two, and I feel that’s one thing that we’re excited to discover. For us, the present additionally is admittedly about this feminine friendship, with Wednesday and Enid actually being on the heart of that. The truth that they actually linked with audiences, it has been actually gratifying. So, we’re excited to discover now that Wednesday’s dipped her toe into the friendship pool, what’s that gonna seem like? It’s like, she hugged. That was her massive arc for the season, proper? So it’s like now, we try this.”
And focussing on her relationship with Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones):
“Then, the opposite factor that’s actually attention-grabbing is to proceed to discover the Wednesday-Morticia mother-daughter relationship as effectively, which now that Morticia is aware of concerning the energy, it has given her kind of an concept of how that’s going to go. How is their relationship going to evolve?”
Bolder, extra darkish
Extra lately, star Jenna Ortega, who takes an govt producer position on season 2 has talked (in Selection) a few shift within the present’s tone saying:
“It’s nonetheless coming collectively, however we’ve determined we need to lean into the horror extra. We’re going to get bolder, extra darkish.”
With filming but to begin, we’d guess that Wednesday season 2 might be on target for a 2025 launch, or probably late 2024.
Earlier than then, Jenna Ortega has a task in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2, which additionally reunites Michael Keaton and her Wednesday castmate (and Addams Household film star) Winona Ryder. That’s slated for launch in September 2024.