Jenna Ortega Makes First Appearance In Wednesday Series, Adaptation Of The Addams Family

Jenna Ortega (Netflix)

JAKARTA - Netflix has released the latest news on Tim Burton's premiere series, Wednesday. Photos and video featuring Jenna Ortega premiered today, Tuesday, June 7th.

The 42-second video shows Jenna Ortega braiding her hair and snapping her fingers. The Addams Family theme song is in the background for the video.

Jenna Ortega will play Wednesday, a member of The Addams family who is a central character in the series. The video was first released on Netflix's Geeked Week event where the streaming service announced a number of series plans.

In addition to Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán were announced to be the parents of Wednesday - Morticia and Gomez Addams. Meanwhile, Christina Ricci, who plays Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family, also joined.

Wednesday marks the first installment of The Addams Family and the premiere of Tim Burton. Previously, The Addams story was presented in the 1998 film The New Addams Family.

The Addams Family is a supernatural film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. This film is adapted from a comic by Charles Addams which tells the life of an American family in the 20th century.

The strange and creepy Addams family decide to move to a normal environment. The family consists of Morticia, Gomez Addams, Wednesday, and Pugsley. Various funny and mystical things adorn the life of this family.

When it premiered in 1993, the film was a box office success with over 200 million US dollars and became one of the most talked about films to date.

In addition to the television series, The Addams Family has also been adapted in the form of video games, musicals, short videos, and short films. As for the plan, the Wednesday series will air in the second half of this year on Netflix.