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‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Featurette Goes Inside Tim Burton’s Stop-Motion Sequence
Tim Burton returned to his stop-motion roots in the Season 2 premiere of “Wednesday” with The Tale of the Skull Tree.
A new featurette exploring the sequence can be seen below, along with the animated tale itself, about an ambitious boy who creates a mechanical heart to save his own live.
“I really enjoyed every day with it, because it was fun and creative,” says Burton. “Seeing these puppets come to life, there’s just something very magical about it.”
“Wednesday” Season 2 Part 1 is now streaming on Netflix, with Part 2 to follow on September 3.
Jenna Ortega stars as Wednesday Addams, who must navigate family, friends and old adversaries, propelling her into another year of delightfully dark and kooky mayhem. Armed with her signature razor-sharp wit and deadpan charm, Wednesday is also plunged into a new bone-chilling supernatural mystery.
Emma Myers, Steve Buscemi, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Isaac Ordonez, Joy Sunday, Billie Piper, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Victor Dorobantu, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, Noah B. Taylor, and Hunter Doohan also star.
Series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville,” Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) are back as showruners.
Burton executive produces and directs four of Season 2’s eight episodes, with Paco Cabezas (“The Umbrella Academy”) and Angela Robinson (Professor Marston & the Wonder Women) each helming two others.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his review, “Burton’s efforts this season indicate that he has a lot more gas in the tank here than he did in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. There’s a phenomenal stop-motion campfire story in the season premiere that has so much personality and energy. It conjures vintage Burton in the best way possible.”
Calling all Crewmates! Paramount+ announced today the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us, which was unveiled live at Summer Game Fest.
Created by Owen Dennis and produced by CBS Studios and Innersloth, all ten episodes of Among Us are now available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
The series follows “a group of eccentric, monochromatic Crewmates of a ship transporting junk across the galaxy who must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs.”
It’s based on the globally popular multiplayer social deception game of the same name, which has been brought to life in the brand new trailer below.
Among Us boasts a star-studded voice cast, too:
- Yvette Nicole Brown as “Orange”
- Kimiko Glenn as “Cyan”
- Liv Hewson as “Black”
- Ashley Johnson as “Purple”
- Wayne Knight as “Lime”
- Phil LaMarr as “Brown”
- Randall Park as “Red”
- Dan Stevens as “Blue”
- Debra Wilson as “Yellow” and “Computer”
- Elijah Wood as “Green”
- Patton Oswalt as “White”
Animation studio Titmouse is behind the series.
Among Us became a global sensation in 2020, generating more than 4 billion views on YouTube and over 1.22 billion viewing sessions on Twitch. In October 2020 alone, it ranked #1 on Google Play in 66 countries and #1 on iOS in 55 countries, with Top 100 placements in nearly every market worldwide. The game is available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series.
The paranoid phenomenon now heads to Paramount+ in animated series form. Watch the new trailer below as all episodes launch on streaming today.
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