# Are you ready for a new "Addams Family" TV series? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 23, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683 "2020-10-23T13:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/1 "2020-10-23T13:35:34Z")
It looks like Tim Burton wants to executive produce and direct a new “Addams Family” television series. > **[‘Addams Family’ TV Reboot in the Works From Tim Burton, Miles Millar, Alfred...](https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/addams-family-tv-reboot-tim-burton-miles-millar-alfred-gough-1234813450/)** > > A new “Addams Family” live-action TV series could soon be coming to television. Variety has confirmed with sources that MGM Television is developing a new series about the spooktacular … Do you think this is a good idea, and who should get what parts? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/2 "2020-10-23T13:48:29Z")
It would be so easy to cast this with Burton’s 1990s stable of actors (Johnny Depp, Lisa Marie, etc.) but now they’re all too old. Maybe Helena Bonham Carter as Granmama would work. But I suspect the cast will be largely unknown to most people. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/3 "2020-10-23T13:53:03Z")
While I would love to see a good Addams Family show, I don’t think Tim (Weird for weird’s sake) Burton would be the right person to helm it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/4 "2020-10-23T14:09:02Z")
I agree. The Addams Family should not get the Burton treatment. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/5 "2020-10-23T14:12:46Z")
Wouldn’t the look and feel be a product of the director and showrunner more than an executive producer? I really liked the sensibility that Barry Sonnenfeld brought to the 1991 movie, so if they can hire some young director with good style, they may be able to get something worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/6 "2020-10-23T14:56:18Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Wouldn’t the look and feel be a product of the director and showrunner more than an executive producer? He wants to produce _and_ direct. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/7 "2020-10-23T15:45:22Z")
Jeez, doesn’t anybody in the entertainment industry ever have an original idea anymore? On another note, I wonder why ‘The Addams Family’ keeps getting rebooted / reimagined / recycled but not The Munsters. Maybe because The Munsters were based on the old Universal Classic Horror monsters, which seem old fashioned and outdated, while the ghoulish charm of The Addams Family is more timeless…? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/8 "2020-10-23T15:48:15Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Wouldn’t the look and feel be a product of the director and showrunner more than an executive producer? I really liked the sensibility that Barry Sonnenfeld brought to the 1991 movie, so if they can hire some young director with good style, they may be able to get something worthwhile. Sonnenfeld went back to the original comic panels for inspiration (from the very first gag), which made it seem fresh because most people had only seen the TV show (which repeated the same gags over and over again). Burton would seem to be attuned to Charles Addams’s sensibility. And in many cases, the executive producer is the showrunner (a title you’d be hard pressed to find in the credits). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/9 "2020-10-23T15:49:45Z")
> [@solost](#): > > On another note, I wonder why ‘The Addams Family’ keeps getting rebooted / reimagined / recycled but not The Munsters. It has been tried more than once, and each time was horrendous for various reasons. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/10 "2020-10-24T01:10:06Z")
Who did the recent _Lemony Snicket_ with NPH? It should be them. Actually, that may have been Barry Sonnenfeld again. Oscar Isaac played Gomez in the recent animated movie. He could easily play him live too. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/11 "2020-10-24T08:32:42Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I wonder why ‘The Addams Family’ keeps getting rebooted / reimagined / recycled but not The Munsters. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > It has been tried more than once, and each time was horrendous for various reasons. At least one of which made Herman day-glo green. Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/12 "2020-10-24T13:59:18Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > At least one of which made Herman day-glo green. Ugh! Where did the idea that the ‘Frankenstein monster’ character was green come from anyway, I wonder? The original Frankenstein movie was in B&W. Maybe the movie posters were in color and made him green. The monster was created from corpses stitched together and reanimated, so having a green color would seem to indicate the experiment was a failure. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/13 "2020-10-24T14:08:04Z")
Tangentially, I thought “Adult Wednesday Addams” with Melissa Hunter was droll. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/14 "2020-10-24T14:13:46Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Maybe the movie posters were in color and made him green. I think you’re right. Karloff’s makeup was green to create the B&W analog for Mary Shelly’s yellow/grey. Since almost everything was produced in-house in the old studio days, it’s not unreasonable to assume the poster artist visited the set and saw Karloff in the green makeup. [![](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XjMAAOxyuPtQ9-nq/s-l300.jpg) ](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XjMAAOxyuPtQ9-nq/s-l300.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/15 "2020-10-24T14:18:22Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I think you’re right. Karloff’s makeup was green to create the B&W analog for Mary Shelly’s yellow/grey. Since almost everything was produced in-house in the old studio days, it’s not unreasonable to assume the poster artist visited the set and saw Karloff in the green makeup. The real Frankenstein’s monster was green. Mary Shelley wrote her book over 100 years later and had never actually seen the monster. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/16 "2020-10-24T14:24:20Z")
But Shelly got the yellow/grey description from Capt. Walton’s direct transcript of Victor Frankenstein’s narrative. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/17 "2020-10-24T14:30:10Z")
You trust that old opium addict? This comes directly from Igor’s cousin’s next door peasant’s old hag fortune teller’s grandson. No way they’d lie about something like that. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/18 "2020-10-24T14:42:20Z")
[![](https://img.ifunny.co/images/4e31f04e2694d3de5aebd6b2987085fd4b35fc06e6076491b392d0610a04e6ec_1.jpg) ](https://img.ifunny.co/images/4e31f04e2694d3de5aebd6b2987085fd4b35fc06e6076491b392d0610a04e6ec_1.jpg) Seems like a good casting choice. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/19 "2020-10-24T14:46:45Z")
No one’s yet tried spinning off and rebooting [the Gruesomes](https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gruesome_Family), have they? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/20 "2020-10-24T14:48:44Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > Seems like a good casting choice. Not real. Unfortunately. Cause it would be _awesome._ > **[Did Christina Ricci Really Dress Up as Morticia Addams?](https://people.com/movies/did-christina-ricci-really-dress-up-as-morticia-addams/)** > > The image appears to be the result of Photoshopping, but it set the internet on fire anyway [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683.md?page=2)