I do n’t know if Tim Burton’sWednesday television serieswill be any good , but it has been already been immensely successful in one respect : the casting . Somehow , it only gets more telling — especially now thatGame of ThronesstarGwendoline Christiewill join Luis Guzman ’s Gomez and Catherine Zeta - Jones ’ Morticia .
Christie will play an all - raw character named Larissa Weems , the principal of Nevermore Academy , the school Wednesday Addams ( Jenny Ortega ) see . Apparently , Weems “ still has an axe to crunch with her former classmate Morticia Addams . ” She ’s presumptively going to take out some of that lingering resentment on Morticia ’s girl — a job Wednesday does not take , as she ’s already get going to have to “ surmount her emerge psychic ability , spoil a monstrous killing spree that has terrify the local town , and solve the supernatural whodunit that embroil her parents 25 geezerhood ago — all while pilot her newfangled and very tangled kinship at Nevermore , ” accord to the show ’s official synopsis .
Tim Burton ’s directorial TV debut also star Issac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams , George Burcea as Lurch , and Victor Dorobantu as the disembodied mitt matter , as well as Thora Birch , Riki Lindhome , Jamie McShane , Luyanda Unati Lewis - Nyawo , Tommie Earl Jenkins , Hunter Doohan , Georgie Farmer , Moosa Mostafa , Emma Myers , Iman Marson , Naomi J. Ogawa , Joy Sunday , William Houston , Percy Hynes White , Oliver Watson , Calum Ross , and Johnna Dias Watson . Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar will serve as showrunners and writer for the eight - sequence series , which has been describe as “ a detective work , preternaturally tincture whodunit ” and “ comedic coming - of - age ” show .
Gwendoline Christie at the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on 14 February 2025, in Los Angeles.Image: Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images (Getty Images)
If you ’ve project 2019 ’s great celluloid The Personal chronicle of David Copperfield , where Christie play the drolly sinister Jane Murdstone , you know she ’s going to be perfect for the show . Meanwhile , Wednesday is n’t Christie ’s only nerd - friendly , upcoming Netflix series ; she’splaying Luciferin the hot - action adaptation of Neil Gaiman ’s intensely await Sandman comic strip .
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