SNAPSHOT
A sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Following 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. Wednesday is series directed by acclaimed genre filmmaker Tim Burton, director of many films including Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children previously. The series is created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar; with writing by Kayla Alpert, April Blair, Matt Lambert, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar. Executive produced by Gough, Millar, Burton, Gail Berman, Kayla Alpert, Steve Stark, Jonathan Glickman, and Andrew Mittman. (courtesy First Showing)
It’s exciting to have the title sequence for Wednesday released ahead of the series’ full release on 23 November via Netflix.
Far more than just music and words, title sequences do a lot of the heavy lifting, especially when a series is hot off the streaming press, in setting mood, tone and atmosphere and even communicating what it is might be in store for us.
Featuring a score created by Danny Elfman, who’s a frequent collaborator with Wednesday series director Tim Burton, the opening credits have all the ghoulish imagery your horror-loving heart could desire including a spider, tombstone and a teddy bear meeting an uncharacteristically gruesome end (well, for normla folks anyway; for Wednesday it’s par for the course you suspect).
It’s a suitably beguilingly creepy intro for Wednesday which makes you want to see it even more, as do the character posters released this week too.
Feast your ghostly eyes on these arrestingly bleak black-and-white character posters, which, rather delightfully, spell out the name of the show …
