Addams Family Fans Want Christina Ricci in Netflix's Wednesday Series

Earlier today Netflix officially confirmed that they're developing a live-action Addams Family spin-off series titled Wednesday, focusing on the daughter the creepy/spooky clan. Director Tim Burton was confirmed to be getting behind the camera for the series. Despite Burton's inclination for white and black stripes, he has not had a hand in any official Addams Family media (he was attached to a stop-motion animated film that never got off the ground in the early 2010s) and this will also mark his first television effort as a director. After hearing the announcement though, fans had one thing they were prepared to demand of the series: an appearance by actress Christina Ricci.

As you may recall, Ricci played the part of Wednesday Adams in the two live-action Addams Family movies from filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld. Being some of her earliest roles, and popular films in their own right, it's a role that many still associate with her even though it's been thirty years since the first movie was released. Fans of Ricci and her performance associate it with her so much that they think she should appear in the new Wednesday show, some suggesting in the role of mother figure Morticia Addams, or as the older Wednesday. We've collected some of the best reactions below.

Wednesday will come to us from Smallville EPs Alfred Gough and Miles Millar who will serve as showrunners. Here's the official Wednesday logline from Netflix:

"The series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. 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 at Nevermore."