Mar
2010
The Addams Family is headed back to the big screen … but in a way it’s for the first time.
Everyone is familiar with the 1960’s television series and the two 1990’s movies, but those weren’t the true Addams Family. Both properties were based off of cartoons drawn by Charles Addams for The New Yorker, and while the characters were all the same, they were different at the same time.
The original comics were more about an extended nuclear family that just happened to have a morbid and dark bent to them. They were classic and mesmerizing, and it’s easy to understand how they metamorphosed into the versions we are more familiar with, but nothing has ever quite approached the tone of the originals.
All of that is about to change thanks to film director Tim Burton.
It has been announced that Mr. Burton will be directing a 3-D stop-motion version of the comic strips as one of his upcoming projects. (Lets get it out of the way, Johnny Depp will be Gomez, Helena Bonham Carter will be Morticia and Danny Elfman will do the music … no, none of this has been announced, but, come on, it’s Burton) It is not known when this film will be released, but seeing as it is stop-motion it will have a rather lengthy productions schedule.
Mr. Burton has a history with stop motion having done The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride, so he knows what he’s doing, and he creates some amazing looking work. Will he be able to stick close enough to the source material without infusing too much of his own sensibilities? True, his concepts are historically close to that of Charles Addams, but it would be preferable to have this stick exactly. Luckily Mr. Addams’ foundation is listed as an executive producer on the project, so hopefully they will keep it faithful.
Can’t wait to see how this turns out!



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