The news that Tim Burton was working on a new show based on The Addams Family was hardly unexpected, and the property seems like an ideal fit for the aesthetic that the filmmaker has become famous for over the last 35 years. Charles Addams’ comic strip characters have been brought to live-action and animation countless times before since debuting in 1938, and finding a new way to approach the material is key to getting audiences on board with yet another take.
Casting will be hugely important, of course, and as soon as the project was announced, Johnny Depp instantly became the frontrunner to play patriarch Gomez, which would be a sound if obvious choice given his penchant for portraying charismatically eccentric figures and his long association with Burton that dates back three decades.
However, there’s now a groundswell of support gathering behind Oscar Isaac, even though he could soon find himself...
Casting will be hugely important, of course, and as soon as the project was announced, Johnny Depp instantly became the frontrunner to play patriarch Gomez, which would be a sound if obvious choice given his penchant for portraying charismatically eccentric figures and his long association with Burton that dates back three decades.
However, there’s now a groundswell of support gathering behind Oscar Isaac, even though he could soon find himself...
- 10/30/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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