EXCLUSIVE: In the first episode of the Deadline’s Crew Podcast Call Podcast from Emmy’s appointments, Wednesday The creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar reveal that they are working on a new animated Addams family Film for Amazon MGM Studios, which is a complete restart and not connected to the Netflix series on psychic addams, Deadpan Wednesday played by Jenna Ortega, nominated at Emmy and Golden Globe.
Gough says to Crew Call: “We work with Amazon MGM and with Kevin Mierocchi who heads the Addams Foundation, he knew Charles Addams and the Flamme Addams goalkeeper, and with Gail Berman and John Glickman. We are restarting the animated film franchise. Addams functionality. We cannot really say a lot, because it is in the first stadiums. »»
The objective is that the project reaches the big screen.
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in “Wednesday”
Netflix
Gough and Millar explain to us how they have teamed up for the first time and kept this intact creative collaboration of their days in the production program of the USC Peter Stark, where they first fell in love with an orangutan and friendly film, mangoAnd sold it to Michael de Luca in New Line, until their day in co-writing for the Boss of Now Warner Bros at almost half a million dollars Beetlejuice beetlejuice.
The duo tells us how they fell in love with season 2 of Wednesday which was disrupted by the writers and strikes, their inspirations, the power of the power of Addams family Franchise, and what is the trick to enter Wednesday’s head when it throws sardonic liners as if it were Groucho Marx.
Said Gough: “The key with her is not to write a joke, is to write to her vision of the world. This is where it landed, and that’s where it seems fun. Each time you are looking for a joke with this character, you end up cutting this line.”
In addition, Wednesday is not your banal girl detective – she is not Veronica Mars. She undertakes to resolve the crime “because someone has enlightened her, or because she feels that a truth is not told, she also stands for the oppressed,” explains Gough.
“Wednesday has been completely formed,” explains Gough about the character’s approach to a young-adult sphere. “And she must learn that the world works in shades of gray.”
Here is our conversation below:
