The director of ‘Batman’ and ‘Eduardo Scissorhands’ will premiere on Netflix on November 23 the series ‘Wednesday’, focusing on the teenage daughter of the gloomy family
Tim Burton was a dyslexic child who struggled to read comics because he got caught up in the sequence of drawings and speech bubbles. He himself confessed this Monday at the festival of comics, video games and series in the Italian city of Lucca, where he presented the series “Wednesday”, with which Netflix returns to the screens from November 23 to the famous Addams family. It has eight chapters, the first four of which are signed by Burton. “As a kid I had some trouble reading comics because I didn’t know how to follow the panels. He had a dyslexic mind,” said the director of such films as “Batman,” “Eduardo Scissorhands” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” among other unforgettable films, to the amazement of his followers, who honored him in one of the squares of this Tuscan renaissance town, many of them dressed as various comic or video game characters, as is customary today at Lucca Comics & Games, or wore wigs with the iconic Wednesday braids.
Burton in her adolescence felt like the daughter of the Addams Family. “He was my favorite character and the one I most identified with. She sees things in black and white. I was interested in telling in the series what his life would be like in school, how he interacted with other people, “explained the filmmaker, who makes his debut in the productive world of series. In this production, Wednesday goes to a special school, the Nevermore Academy (Never ever), a center “for the excluded but in which she feels excluded. The same happened to me at school, with my parents and with others. That’s why I liked Wednesday so much. Even though she is in a place for people like her, she doesn’t want to join the party.” The daughter of the Addams family, both in the legendary series and in the cartoons, was an “inspiration” for Burton in his youth, who left countless examples of his passion for gloomy and dark universes in his cinematography. They are the fruit of a brilliant and creative mind, but one that has also had to overcome its own minds. “I understand the character very well, because I had mental problems half my life,” he confessed.
Wednesday, whose terror of social media on the internet mirrors the director’s vision, will face the usual challenges faced by teens at Nevermore Academy as he tries to control his psychic powers amid a string of murders. The cast is led by Jenna Ortega, who plays the somber protagonist, while Catherine Zeta-Jones plays her mother, Morticia Adams, and Luis Guzmán plays his father, Gómez Addams. “These are characters that continue to attract us because they’re the quintessential weird family. All families are a little bit, but they’re utterly rare and we all have someone we can identify with,” Burton said. “Most kids get to a point. that they are ashamed of their own parents. Imagine what it must mean for Wednesday to have a mother like Morticia. It’s driving me crazy,” he explained to constant applause from his followers, who were then able to participate in an exclusive screening of the first chapter in the European presentation of the series.
Source: La Verdad
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