The household behind “Wednesday” is getting a bit of greater.
IndieWire can verify that “Wednesday” Season 2 is formally in manufacturing in Eire with a number of new forged members becoming a member of the collection. Earlier “Addams Household” actor Christopher Lloyd might be a visitor star, following in Christina Ricci’s Season 1 footsteps. Different visitor stars embrace Thandiwe Newton, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo, Joanna Lumley, Frances O’Connor, and Joonas Suotamo.
Steve Buscemi is a brand new collection common, together with Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor; Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez, and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo are additionally bumped as much as collection regulars after showing within the first season.
“We’re thrilled that your entire Addams household might be enrolling in Nevermore Academy this season together with a dream forged of icons and new faces,” collection creators/writers/showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar stated in a joint assertion.
“Wednesday” was the most well-liked English TV collection on Netflix with 252.10 million views for the debut season. The collection spent 20 weeks on the International Prime 10 and reached the Prime 10 in 93 international locations.
Tim Burton directs and govt produces the present that facilities on the titular Addams Household teen daughter, performed by Jenna Ortega. The actress will produce Season 2, together with govt producers Steve Stark, Andrew Mittman, Tommy Harper, Karen Richards, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman, Gail Berman, and Meredith Averill.
Paco Cabezas and Angela Robinson will direct Season 2 along with Burton.
Ortega instructed E! Information that the second installment is “positively leaning into extra horror.”
“I’ve obtained some scripts for the second season, and we’re positively leaning into extra horror,” Ortega stated. “It’s actually, actually thrilling as a result of, all all through the present, whereas Wednesday does want a bit of little bit of an arc, she by no means actually modifications, and that’s the beauty of her. There’s actually, actually good one-liners, and I feel all the things’s greater. It’s much more action-packed. Every episode will in all probability really feel a bit of bit extra like a film, which is sweet.”
Ortega beforehand instructed Selection’s Actors on Actors that Season 2 is “ditching any romantic love curiosity for Wednesday, which is actually nice. We’re going to get bolder, extra darkish.”
Along with filming “Wednesday,” Ortega reunited with Burton for “Beetlejuice 2.”