We reported a few months back that Tim Burton was toying with the idea of bringing Charles Addams' classic comic strip "The Addams Family" to curtain-encrusted screen. The film, it was said at the time, wouldn't be a live-action comedy like the previous film incarnations (starring the late great Raul Julia as Gomez), but a 3D stop-motion film, a'la Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas", that would be based on the original comic strip.
Seems the project has inched forward with Deadline reporting Burton has hired "Ed Wood" screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski to pen the libretto for the picture.
Says the site, "[The project is] based on artwork that Tim absolutely loves. The retrospective in New York of Tim’s own artwork showed how much of an influence Charles Addams was to him. We want the tone to be as darkly funny and subversive as the Addams drawings, and we’ve come up with an approach that nobody has ever done before.”
I'm guessing Johnny Depp will be involved in some capacity (voicing Gomez, perhaps?).
