Tim Burton makes an Addams Family show, Scarlett Johansson plays the Bride of Frankenstein, there’s a new Battlestar Galactica movie coming, and more.
The only really shocking thing about the news that Tim Burton is in talks with MGM TV to produce and direct an Addams Family TV series is that he’s never been involved with the franchise before. The guy behind ooky-spooky movies like Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas seems like a perfect fit for a story about a decadent family of aristocrats who wear a lot of black and have a close personal relationship with death.
The new show, if it comes forward, would focus on daughter Wednesday Addams and be set in our current time. What would the Addams Family think of Twitter? This show will tell you.
In other spooky news, Variety reports that Scarlett Johansson has signed on to play the lead role in Bride, about a man who creates “a woman created to be an ideal wife.” She rejects him, is labeled a monster by society and goes on the run, where she “finds her true identity, her surprising power and the strength to remake herself as her own creation.”
It’s basically Frankenstein meets Bride of Frankenstein meets 2020. The idea reminds me a bit of this year’s The Invisible Man, which took a classic horror story and reworked it a bit so it interrogated gender norms. That movie was excellent, and Bride is being made by the horror masters at A24 (Midsommar, Hereditary), so I have high hopes for it as well.
Jun 11, 2017; New York, NY, USA; Scarlett Johansson presents the award for featured actor in a play at Radio City Music Hall. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
Okay, that’s enough scary talk; I’m sorry for frightening you. In other entertainment news, TBS has renewed anthology sitcom Miracle Workers for a third season. The show, which stars Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi, has been different every season, with season 2 being set in the Dark Ages of Europe. Season 3 will take things to the Old West, with Radcliffe playing a small-town preacher who must team up with an outlaw (Buscemi) to lead a wagon train of settlers along the Oregon Trail.
They had me at, “Steve Buscemi plays a funny cowboy criminal.”
Finally, Universal is still trying to get a Battlestar Galactica movie off the ground, according to The Hollywood Reporter. They’ve been trying without success pretty consistently ever since the SYFY original series version reinvigorated the franchise back in the ’00s. This time they’ve brought on board Simon Kinberg, who’s work on The Martian, the new Twilight Zone show and several of the X-Men movies.
“Battlestar Galactica is one of the holy grails in science fiction, and I couldn’t be more excited about bringing something new to the franchise, while honoring what’s made it so iconic and enduring,” Kinberg said. There’s also a TV show from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, so there could be good times for Battlestar fans ahead.
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h/t Deadline, The A.V. Club