Netflix series about Wednesday Addams in the works from director Tim Burton

The show will be ‘a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student’

Tim Burton will direct a Netflix show centering on Wednesday Addams, the iconic member of the Addams family.

Netflix announced the upcoming series – adequately – on Wednesday.

Titled Wednesday, the live-action show will be made up of eight episodes. Netflix has described it as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy”.

The series will chronicle “Wednesday's attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships of the strange and diverse student body.”

It will mark Burton’s directorial debut on television.

Information about the cast has yet to be unveiled. Christina Ricci famously portrayed Wednesday in the 1991 The Addams Family and its 1993 follow-up Addams Family Values.

A poster released on Wednesday by Netflix features a cartoon drawing of Wednesday’s silhouette holding a cello and a knife in lieu of a bow.

Burton’s latest film was the 2019 live-action adaptation of Dumbo.

Prior to that, he directed the 2016 adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the bestselling novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs.

Among Burton’s best-known films are Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, and Corpse Bride.