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Preview the “Wednesday” Float at This Week’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!
The first horror family to attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade may have been “The Munsters” back in 1964, but The Addams Family eventually caught up a few decades later.
It was in 1991 that the Charles Addams-created Addams Family debuted at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, taking over the short-lived “European Village” float in celebration of that year’s live action movie. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, the live action movie had just arrived in theaters on November 22 of that year, a mere six days before the November 28, 1991 airing of the 65th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. And the cast of the film even showed up in full costume, including Christina Ricci (Wednesday), Jimmy Workman (Pugsley), Judith Malina (Grandmama), and Carel Struycken (Lurch), joined by Cousin Itt.
The Addams Family float at the 1991 parade was paired up with the Cultural Dance Ensemble of Camden High School in New Jersey, whose goal was to “promote understanding of different cultures through the universal language of dance and music.”
The reason we bring this up is because The Addams Family is returning to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this week, with Netflix and Tim Burton’s spinoff television series “Wednesday” getting its own float for the first time ever! Netflix has previously paid for floats to promote The Christmas Chronicles and Leo, and this year is all about “Wednesday” starring Jenna Ortega. The hit horror series will debut its hotly anticipated second season next year.
IGN has shared a first-look sneak peek at this year’s “Wednesday” float today (below), giving us a glimpse at a massive depiction of Ortega’s Wednesday and the severed hand known as Thing! According to Fandom, the float is officially titled “Wednesday’s Feast.”
Fandom previews, “The float depicts Wednesday, who hates Thanksgiving and parades, celebrating the dreadful affair by doing something she loves—embarrassing her younger brother Pugsley. She serves his head on a literal platter, surrounded by a buffet of rotten fruit, putrid vegetables, and ominous insects.” Singer Bishop Briggs will be part of the new float.
Preview the “Wednesday” float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2024 below!
This year’s parade airs Thursday, November 28 at 8:30am EST on NBC.
Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.
Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.
“I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,” Patel said.
That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit.
It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for the “Buffy: New Sunnydale” reboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.
As for “The X-Files” pilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together on “Station Eleven.”
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”
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