Hollywood star Catherine Zeta-Jones has been tapped to play the role of Morticia Addams, the matriarch of the Addams Family, in the Netflix series "Wednesday". The show marks the small screen directorial debut for Tim Burton, known for "Beetlejuice", "Edward Scissorhands", and "Alice in Wonderland". Zeta-Jones joins Luis Guzman who will appear as Gomez Addams and Jenna Ortega, who takes on the titular character.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Wednesday" is described as a coming-of-age comedy, written by "Smallville" creators Al Gough and Miles Millar. The series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams` (Ortega) years as a student at Nevermore Academy.