

Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman, as Wednesday and Puggsley, had grown up, so a return for them was out of the question. Approaches duly went out to Anjelica Huston to reprise the role of Morticia Addams, and Christopher Lloyd to come back as Uncle Fester. It looked for some continuity, too, to bring over at least some of the audience goodwill that the movies had generated. started developing what would morph into Addams Family Reunion, a TV movie that was intended to be the pilot for the new series. 15 to 20 years before it became the go-to trend, the idea was to continue the Addams’ adventures on the small screen (although the origins of the Addams Family lie in Charles Addams’ original cartoon strips, and the subsequent TV series, so in this case, it was perhaps more “returning home”).Īs such, Warner Bros. and Saban (the Power Rangers people) then had plans for a new television project, The New Addams Family. Paramount distributed the first two Addams Family movies, having snapped up the first film late in production from the financially-challenged Orion. This one, though, was from a different company, with different intentions. Wanting to recapture the box office gold of the first film, and recognizing that the second deserved better, plans were put in place for another project.

I love this family.But then somebody went and thought of it anyway. He’s also a pro with 'Big Mouth' and the list of shows that he does."Īs for the possibility of a third Addams Family movie, Isaac says, "I hope so.

He is just such a funny, sweet, wonderful guy and a buddy of mine. Asked which of his co-stars he’d most like to join in the recording studio, Isaac has a quick answer. Joining Isaac in voicing the characters - which were created by cartoonist Charles Addams and formed the basis for the popular 1960s television series and several subsequent adaptations - are stars including Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Bette Midler. "We’ve got great directors that help us understand what's going on in the world, and then oftentimes you'll have some visual playback of what the animators are working on." "In a way, it was the perfect job to do during these times, when all I needed to do was go into an isolation booth and record my voice," says the actor about making the film during the pandemic.
