The creepy and kooky Addams Family will be highlighting one of its members. Netflix is reportedly in the early stages of producing a spinoff of Uncle Fester, Wednesday’s paternal uncle, from Wednesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In the Wednesday series, Fred Armisen (Portlandia, Saturday Night Live) portrays Uncle Fester.
This project is no surprise since the mega-hit series of the eccentric family debuted last November. Wednesday has also claimed the name of Netflix’s biggest series to date according to the total of streaming views. This is done by dividing a movie or series’s total viewing time by its running time.
Wednesday was greenlit for a second season in January. The producers and owners of the series’ characters, Amazon MGM Studios, are ready and willing to take on this project, as mentioned by Bloomberg, who first reported the news.
The series creators and showrunners, Miles Millar (Into the Badlands, I Am Number Four) and Al Gough (Smallville, Spider-Man 2), have been brainstorming ways to make the spinoff before Wednesday was born. Gough even sat down with The Hollywood Reporter’s TV’s Top 5 podcast before the premiere and stated, “we’ve definitely talked about it with Netflix.”
“When you create a world like this, the intention is any one of these characters could be the lead in their own show,” Gough said. “Certainly it’s cast that way, when you have Fred Armisen, when you have Catherine Zeta-Jones, when you have Luis Guzman. It’s certainly something we’ve discussed and would very much like to, in success, really branch out this world beyond just Wednesday.”
Millar and Gough executively produced Wednesday’s first season alongside Tim Burton (Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas), who directed half of the season.
Other executive producers include Andrew Mittman (The Addams Family, Elvis), Gail Berman (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel), Steve Stark (Fargo, The Handmaid’s Tale), Kayla Alpert (LAX, Confessions of a Shopaholic), Tommy Harper (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol), Jonathan Glickman (Rush Hour, The Vow), Kevin Miserocchi (The Addams Family, The Little Girl with the Big Voice) and Kevin Lafferty (Locke & Key, The Umbrella Academy). A new executive producer on board will be Jenna Ortega (X, Scream) herself for the second season.