Tim Burton to make The Addams Family

[toddpolt]

Alice in Wonderland director Tim Burton has found a new 3D project. He will direct a stop-motion animated film based on Charles Addams' original ghoulish cartoon drawings of The Addams Family. Illumination Entertainment, the Universal-based family film unit headed by Chris Meledandri, has acquired the underlying rights of the Addams drawings, once a staple of The New Yorker magazine.

www.deadline.com/2010/03/tim-burton-next-3d-animated-film-da-da-da-snap-snap-the-addams-family/#more-28841

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

He's the right guy to do it.

[Deleted]

What he didn't tell us was that Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter were already picked to play Gomez and Morticia.

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

Mar 18, 2010 10:48:39 GMT -5 @teamkillswitch said:

What he didn't tell us was that Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter were already picked to play Gomez and Morticia.

I'm okay with that, as long as one of the stars of the original movie makes a cameo.

My choice?

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[Apricots And A Pear Tree]

[MCMGM]

Mar 18, 2010 10:57:47 GMT -5 Apricots And A Pear Tree said:

Exactly.

[Jason Todd Grisham]

Tim Burton would have been awesome for the job, until he went on cruse control.

The dude's like a Thomas Kinkade for goths. Only in film.

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Mar 18, 2010 10:59:21 GMT -5 MCMGM said:

Mar 18, 2010 10:57:47 GMT -5 Apricots And A Pear Tree said:

Exactly.

Just a side note, I laughed my ass off when I saw the first related video for it.

Yeah, I don't approve of this.

[Apricots And A Pear Tree]

Nothing he does will be better then this

[Michael Coello]

It's not live action, it's stop motion based on the original designs.

[AriadosMan]

Y'know, I would be pumped for this...if Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay

[Apricots And A Pear Tree]

Mar 18, 2010 11:11:47 GMT -5 AriadosMan said:

Y'know, I would be pumped for this...if Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay

How about a live action Halloween Tree?

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Mar 18, 2010 11:14:10 GMT -5 Apricots And A Pear Tree said:

Mar 18, 2010 11:11:47 GMT -5 AriadosMan said:

Y'know, I would be pumped for this...if Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay

How about a live action Halloween Tree?

I'd rather see an animated Something Wicked, just to make up for the crappy 1983 film.

[AriadosMan]

Mar 18, 2010 11:14:10 GMT -5 Apricots And A Pear Tree said:

Mar 18, 2010 11:11:47 GMT -5 AriadosMan said:

Y'know, I would be pumped for this...if Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay

How about a live action Halloween Tree?

I'd actually prefer stop-motion, I think its Burton's favorite animation tool, although he'd probably farm it out to one of his associates (Shane Acker, Timur B., the guy who directed Nightmare).

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Mar 18, 2010 11:07:24 GMT -5 Michael Coello said:

It's not live action, it's stop motion based on the original designs.

Case and point. Still see my original post.

[Jason Todd Grisham]

I will admit though, if this means Christopher Lee as Lurch, it may all be worth it.

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

Wow, Burton's not really good going outside his comfort zone as a director at all, is he? From one "wacky, dark, and kooky" project to the next. Fun times.

[YellowJacketY2J]

Mar 18, 2010 10:48:26 GMT -5 Clash, Never a Meter Maid said:

He's the right guy to do it.

Damn straight! Should be good.

[Vampiro138]

yea...this looks to be a waste of my time. i remember when he made watchable films....and made stuff i actually cared about seeing....oh well...

to this idea..

the closest i can get to a groucho marx facepalm...

[Jason Todd Grisham]

I'm sure a lot of you do not know this, but I'm actually pretty well connected to a ring of reporters and sources and such. Sometimes, they let me do a few things because I'm a friend.

I just got off from an interview with Gomez Addams and he had this to say:



HAS THE PLANET GONE MAD!?!?