Somebody call Tag Team, because we might need another remix.
Fresh on the heels of Disney’s surprisingly successful "Alice in Wonderland," filmmaker Tim Burton has signed on to direct a 3D stop-motion animated version of "The Addams Family," based on Charles Addams’ original cartoon drawings published in the New Yorker from 1938 until Addams’ 1988 death, reports Deadline New York.
This is obviously a match made in Hollywood heaven. Frankly, I’m surprised Burton didn’t put his stamp on this franchise years ago, after the disappointing 1-2 punch of "Sleepy Hollow" and "Planet of the Apes."
Universal’s family film unit Illumination Entertainment acquired the rights to the morbidly witty drawings.