you know, that were just kind of like aĪt the time, it probably was too complicated to actually show. Things the TV show and the live-action movie talked about Moving trees and talking envelopes and at one point, we hadĪnd shrunken heads that jump up and down and sing. “For The Addams Family we started creating “With animation right now, you have more of a believable way to tell Had all the necessary ingredients to breathe new life into thisīeloved family. It just started to come alive as soon as that was introduced.” To actually start them in different placesĪnd that immediately set it apart from other Addams material that had come before. “In every iteration, the Addams wereĪlready this congealed family unit. Know and love that has been turned into live action movies and a TV show andĮven a Broadway musical? “There’s a nostalgia factor,Īnother way into this world of the Addams family.”Ĭartoons to start at the beginning, when he first came up with these characters,” says Vernon. Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernanįor sure - there have been two short-lived animatedĪn animated feature film.

Starting in the 1930s, his shadowy line drawings delivered a subversive pleasure: dark themes, genius chiaroscuro, and zippy one-liners. A hilarious and endearing tale of acceptance, The Addams Family brings Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons to life and will inspire people of all ages to embrace a new idea of what is normal.įor Co-Directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, one of the keys to making a fresh Addams Family film was to go back to the main source: Charles Addams’ creepy, spooky, and altogether kooky New Yorker comics.

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