The Addams Family (2019)

[Sam Fisher]

Not excited about this at all. Stop moton sounds interesting but I'm not a fan of Tim Burton at all.

 

[zeptron]

God, I would really love it if Burton were to leave Depp and HBC out of this. He is getting more and more predictable and less creative and less original.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Basically all the characters in Halloweentown are like the Addams Family, except that they become aware of the fact that the **** they do freaks people out later on. The Addams are blissfully unaware that they're the "weird" ones, and the lesson that was taught from the tv series and movies was that us normies are the ones with the problems.

The true thing I find about most Addams Family adaptions is while they look like freaks. They are often very normal when it gets down to it. They love like most families, probably more so than most do now-a-days. They are a very tight knit family and Gomez and Moriticia are one of the most romantic couples ever put on any media form.

It's often the people that look down upon them that turn out to be the ''freaks" of society by looking down upon them. Like Debbie, Tully and Dr. Pinder-Schloss? Freaks.

 

[nogap87]

A decade ago I would have been all over this. Now, a Burton film no longer means an automatic viewing from me. I think he lost me in 2005, the year Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride came out. Major letdowns.

 

[KnightBat]

Tim Burton Denies He's doing Addams Family:


http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/03/19/tim-burton-denies-addams-family-report/

 

[bullets]

I think he read this thread and was like nah forget it.

 

[MAN O STEEL]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_g1tMoXnAQ

 

[Octoberist]

A decade ago I would have been all over this. Now, a Burton film no longer means an automatic viewing from me. I think he lost me in 2005, the year Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride came out. Major letdowns.

i agree.

 

[TheVelvetOnion]

I have been waiting ages for news on a new Addams Family film but honestly. This news doesnt make me jump for joy.

Although Tim Burton is good at giving his own gothic and dark nature to his films. He seems to have a very limited cast... so only one could summerise that...

Johnny Depp as Gomez
and
Helen Bonhan Carter as Mortisha

I really dont want that and i dont think there the ideal cast... The more i thoughth about the true nature of the addams family. The franchise should take a different turn. Tim Burtons verson will be viewed exactly like chocolate factory and alice in wonderland... its a different verson but we prefer the original...

what are your views on it?

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

i'm amazed at the flack corspe bride gets, i really enjoyed it. in fact i'd rather watch it than nightmare, and i love nightmare


on the subject of burton/depp yeah it's getting boring but i don't see fanboys moaning when it's constantly Scorsese/DiCaprio. loads of directors have stuck with the same actor

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

bloody hype, constant double posts

 

[ross2287]

If he was doing this--which in stop-motion could be something special--I'd be behind it if:
1. It wasn't 3D.
2. It was set in the 50s.
3. He cast Michael Keaton as Gomez, Winona Ryder as Wednesday, Paul Ruebens as Uncle Fester and Christopher Lee or Alan Rickman as Lurch.
4. He got Alan Arkin in there somewhere.

 

[nogap87]

i'm amazed at the flack corspe bride gets, i really enjoyed it. in fact i'd rather watch it than nightmare, and i love nightmare

Its been a while since I've looked at it but I remember thinking it had a very underwhelming ending. Elfman's score and songs were also disappointing compared to Nightmare Before Christmas (IMO).

 

[Darkness Falls]

i think this will be great
love stop motion films and burton's sketches

 

[TheVelvetOnion]

Trouble with addams family is that its twistedly funny... other than bettlejuice i havent seen Tim Burton do twistedly funny... i dare anyone to say that was the fame of charlie and the chocolate factory of alice in wonderland...

theres a fine line between twistedly funny and just plain weird.

The Addam's Family should be a project for a character of the newer age of film making... and that is Robert Rodriguez... if you watch his movies especially planet terror and dust till dawn. there was comical ellements within the movies that i could see being translated to the addams family

 

[Gabe99]

From Deadline New York:
Tim Burton & 'The Addams Family'...

Last week, I wrote about a Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment deal to acquire the original Addams Family drawings by Charles Addams so Tim Burton could direct a stop-motion 3D animated film. Numerous Deadline readers thought the story was false based on an MTV.com "exclusive" report. I stand by my story. The deal happened. Deadline hardly needs MTV.com to become a self-appointed truth squad. That site should stick to its strength --which appears to be aggregating, and all the breathless scoops that come from surface-scratching celebrity junket interviews. As for my own cynical readers, I figure you are the same ones who sent nyah-nyah missives when Neil Patrick Harris denied my report that he would be in the song and dance number that opened the Academy Awards. (He rehearsed with Martin Short, but the latter bowed out due to a personal emergency). You guys should learn to trust me.

 

[King K]

If he was doing this--which in stop-motion could be something special--I'd be behind it if:
1. It wasn't 3D.
2. It was set in the 50s.
3. He cast Michael Keaton as Gomez, Winona Ryder as Wednesday, Paul Ruebens as Uncle Fester and Christopher Lee or Alan Rickman as Lurch.
4. He got Alan Arkin in there somewhere.

Yes. That is a dream cast indeed. Paul Ruebens was awesome in Nightmare (My fav Burton movie). I wouldn't mind it being in 3D though. I'll pass on day one if the Usual Suspects are on board= Depp+ HBC.
For f*** sake. I'd think those 3 people would eventually get tired of each other after almost 2 decades of working together and move on in their careers but I guess job security is too good to leave.

 

[ross2287]

Yeah you'd think it'd get kinda stale, creatively at least. If he just has to work with Depp, making him a producer or creative consultant or something. That could be interesting.

 

[Hannibal Smith]

Didn't the dude who made the MIB movies already do this. Burton should just go ahead and Make The Wizard Of Oz remake or at least do a live action film of this.

 

[terry78]

Apparently now he is doing it. The front page just confirmed.

 

[Catman]

Apparently now he is doing it. The front page just confirmed.

Normally, I'd roll my eyes, but it's stop-motion animation so it's not a big deal. Burton directed Willy Wonka and Corpse Bride at the same time, so HOPEFULLY, he picks a good live-action project to helm.

 

[DarkKnight88]

It doesn't say he's directing, just that he's involved. My bet is he's simply producing it.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

so who will Johnny Depp play?

 

[Dr. Evil]

so who will Johnny Depp play?

Gomez.

 

[Catman]

If Tim Burton is JUST producing then Johnny Depp won't be involved. Depp wasn't in 9.