Miles Millar and Alfred Gough are to work on the series about the cult Addams Family (or rather their daughter Wednesday), working closely with Tim Burton. They talked with him, among others on how to find the right actor to play Gomez:
[Burton] wanted the character’s silhouette to look more like Charles Addams comics, where Gomez is shorter than Morticia, as opposed to the movie version played by Raul Julia , Gough said.
Millar added:
We want this to not look like a remake or reboot. It is something that is based on what happened before, but is a separate work. Our version is not trying to be a movie or TV show from the ’60s. This is very important to both us and Tim.
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The creators contacted Burton as they felt his sensitivity would suit the show. They were surprised by the quick response:
He was interested in where the series was going and what secrets it was going to keep , “Gough said . He had many questions about our previous television work and accomplishments. He really loved the idea of focusing on Wednesday , discovering her character, without being limited to the forty-five minutes as is the case with movies , ‘added Millar. We’d like to make an eight-hour Tim Burton show of it.
Jenna Ortega, on the other hand, presented her approach to what makes dedicating Wednesday Addams a unique idea:
We’ve never seen her as a teenager , explained Entertainment Weekly. You know, it’s fun, sweet, and almost charming to listen to an eight-year-old obsessed with murder and blood and guts. When Wednesday matured, her nasty demeanor and biting remarks make it difficult to play her without sounding like any other teenager. So how do you create this character so that it has the same fire in it without making it someone that it is not? Plus, it’s an eight-hour show, so for an emotionless hero, there has to be some emotional breakthrough after all.
