Tim Burton grew up feeling part of the grim Addams Family, but her favorite was her outspoken daughter, Merlina, to whom she dedicated her first series: “She was an outcast. And that’s how I felt,” she said today to Comics & Games Fair in the Italian city of Lucca (north).
“It’s funny because Merlina goes to an outcast school, but she is an outcast among the outcasts. And that’s how I felt, that part really challenges me because that’s how I felt in my school, with my parents or other people. . “, he acknowledged in a meeting with his followers at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca.
Director of cockroach juice (1988), Young scissorhandss (1990) and the corpse of the bride (2005) returns to the darkness that made him famous, this time making his debut in the world of series with his own version of the taciturn emeryon Netflix on November 23.
And the venue for the presentation was the Comics & Games Fair in Lucca, a quiet walled town in Italian Tuscany which in recent years has become a world capital of the cartoon genre.
emeryThe eight-episode series delves into the life of this dark young woman (Jeena Ortega) forced to face a string of mysteries and murders while studying at Nevermore Academy and, worse, socializing with her classmates.
“I grew up watching crazy addamsI loved both the series and the cartoons and they were a real inspiration to me, but Merlina’s character … I feel like her since my teens, “acknowledged the director.
“Mental Problems”
And he cut it short, causing a general laugh: “I understand the character very well because I have had mental problems for half of my life”.
The series will naturally focus on the sour daughter, but will not miss the rest of the members of the original family created by Charles Addams in 1938, starting with the mother, the iconic Morticia, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, or her elegant husband Gómez, to which Luis Guzman gives life.
And of course, Uncle Thing won’t be missing either, but this time in the form of a “more vivid” hand. As time has passed, now the protagonist is no longer so young.
The world imagined by Burton is equally mysterious and gloomy, but perhaps it increases its dose of uncertainty with the echoes of a very current reality, such as social networks and their effects, not always positive, in schools across the globe.
“I’m afraid of the internet because every time I look for something I end up in a black hole with funny cat videos,” he said.
The American director thus immerses himself in a format, that of the series, which few can resist, but although it was “a great pleasure”, especially to be able to work at a slower pace, his “first love” continues to be cinema. , movies.
And it will continue to work on it, he promised, to fatten up a list of films loved by the public, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Y Alice in Wonderland.
In this sense, curiously, comics inspire him less despite he owes them some of the great films of his gothic filmography, such as his two Batman“Of course I love all forms of art, but I’ve always had trouble reading comics because I never knew which panel to read. I have a kind of dyslexic mind,” he joked.
After all, the reason for the success of the mythical Addams Family is that everyone is somehow strange or has strange relatives and friends. He too and that’s why he decided to leave his unmistakable mark on a classic … once again.
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Source: Clarin
