TechCheck+ Netflix's 'Wednesday' Creators on Reimagining 'The Addams Family' 12/7/22

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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CNBC's Carl Quintanilla speaks to Al Gough and Miles Millar, creators, showrunners and executive producers of Netflix’s ‘Wednesday.’ They discuss how the series reimagines beloved ‘Addams Family’ member Wednesday as an angst-filled teenager, and how the show uniquely explores the notorious misanthrope's experiences at a supernatural boarding school all while navigating her emerging psychic abilities. The creators also open up about working with famed director Tim Burton, how the Netflix experience compares to their work on television mega-hit ‘Smallville’ and the unique challenges for storytellers developing and running a show in a streaming era. Recorded 11/25/22 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Joining us today on binge, Al Gough and Miles Miller, creators, showrunners, and executive producers of Wednesday,
0:07.0	premiering on Netflix on November 23rd. Guys, appreciate you joining us. Great to see you.
0:12.0	And congratulations.
0:13.0	Great to see you.
0:14.0	Thanks to meet you.
0:15.0	This is so exciting because it's really sort of like witnessing a new world, in a sense, of this family that we know so well,
0:23.6	and all the possibilities and all the directions it can go.
0:26.6	I wonder, Al, if you can just start off by telling me how the origins of the story and how your world and Miles' world intersected with Tim Burton's world.
0:36.6	Well, we had this, Miles and I came up with this idea about three years ago.
0:42.3	And it was just, we were looking for a character who frankly was iconic but hadn't been explored before, sort of what we did with Smallville.
0:51.3	And we came up with, you know, Teenage Wednesday Adams in boarding school.
0:55.3	You know, you'd always seen Wednesday as a 10-year-old girl as part of this family. And we like
0:59.7	the idea of kind of expanding her world and telling a chapter in her life that nobody has ever
1:06.2	seen. So that's and then so we, first of all, we had to track down the rights, which we discovered
1:12.4	belong, were with MGM because they were at the time doing the animated movies.
1:16.6	And we did that.
1:18.4	And then we pitched the, actually the Adams family estate, a gentleman by the name of Kevin
1:23.7	Ms. Rocky, who controlled all of that.
1:25.7	He loved it.
1:27.0	And we ended up writing the first episode, and we were going to start a writer's room,
1:33.1	and it was March of 2020.
1:34.9	So it was a Zoom room.
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