‘Wednesday’ Creators Alfred Gough & Miles Millar Team Up for New Animated Addams Family Movie

On the latest episode of Deadline’s Crew Call podcast, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the creators behind the hit show Wednesday, shared some exciting news. They’re working on a brand-new animated Addams Family movie for Amazon MGM Studios. This project is a fresh reboot and won’t be connected to the Netflix series starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams.

Gough explained the project, saying, “We’re working on it with Amazon MGM and with Kevin Miserocchi who runs the Addams Foundation, he knew Charles Addams and is the keeper of the Addams flame, and with Gail Berman and John Glickman. We’re rebooting the animated film franchise. So it won’t have anything to do with the two films before it, nor is it connected with this show. It will be a brand new Addams feature. There’s not really much we can say about it, because it’s in the very early stages.”

The two creators also talked about their long history working together. They first teamed up at the USC Peter Stark Producing Program and developed a cop buddy movie called Mango, which they sold to New Line. From there, they co-wrote the successful Beetlejuice film that made almost half a billion dollars. Their partnership has lasted many years and continues to shape their projects.

They also opened up about Season 2 of Wednesday, which faced delays because of the writers and actors strikes. Gough and Millar shared their inspirations and discussed why the Addams Family keeps resonating with audiences. When it comes to writing Wednesday’s sharp and witty lines, Gough said, “The key with her is not writing a joke, it’s writing to her world view. That’s where it lands, and that’s where it sounds fun. Anytime you reach for a joke with this character, you wind up cutting that line.”

Gough added that Wednesday isn’t your typical teenage detective like Veronica Mars. Instead, she’s motivated by a strong sense of justice, “because someone has gaslighted her, or because she feels a truth isn’t being told, she also sticks up for the underdog.” He described her character as fully formed from the start, saying, “Wednesday came in fully formed. And she has to learn that the world works in shades of grey.”

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