Gwendoline Christie has joined the cast of the Addams Family spinoff series that is coming to Netflix.
The Emmy-selected Game of Thrones and Star Wars: The Force Awakens star will be a series standard in the upcoming show named Wednesday.
Christie will play Larissa Weems, “the principal of Nevermore Academy who still has an axe to grind with her former classmate Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
The series is depicted as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ (Jenna Ortega) years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday 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 at Nevermore.”
Additionally joining the cast are Isaac Ordonez (Pugsley Addams), Victor Dorobantu (Thing), and George Burcea (Lurch), with Tommie Earl Jenkins (Mayor Walker), Iman Marson (Lucas Walker), William Houston (Joseph Crackstone), Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Deputy Santiago), Oliver Watson (Kent), Calum Ross (Rowan) and Johnna Dias Watson (Divina).
They join a host of recently declared castmembers.
Christie is additionally playing a role in another major upcoming Netflix dream title, a variation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, which has wrapped creation.
Tim Burton will direct and executive produce the first season, which comprises of eight scenes, and is composed by showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville). The characters were made via visual artist Charles Addams in 1938 and have had numerous variations throughout the long term (counting the 1993 film Addams Family Values, with Christina Ricci in the Wednesday job). While Burton’s past work like The Nightmare Before Christmas apparently drew some inspiration from the franchise, this denotes his first Addams Family project.