The series will arrive in the last months of this year and will mark Tim Burton’s debut on the streaming platform.
In the middle of the Netflix event, Tudum 2022, the streaming platform confirmed the release date of Merlin, the series directed by Tim Burton that brings back the Addams family.
The fiction starring Jenna Ortega will premiere on November 23 and will tell the adventures of the young and dark Addams.
Although they did not deliver a new advance, the platform shared a brief scene from the fiction. There, young Merlina converses with Fingers, under the rhythm of the traditional song of Mexico, La Llorona.
Although Merlina discovers Fingers hiding to spy on her while she stays at Nevermore Academy, after a series of threats, The hand decides to give “loyalty” to Merlina to help her escape from the establishment.
In addition to Ortega, the series features Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Gwendoline Christie and Christina Ricci, among others.
What is expected of the Merlina series
In August of this year the official trailer for the series was published, where you can see how the first-born of the Addams has been expelled from eight schools in just five years due to its peculiar behavior.
In one of the scenes the character is shown releasing hungry piranhas into a pool where her brother’s abusers swam minor. “The only one who can torture my brother is me,” says Merlina before unleashing chaos at her school.
Due to this incident, her parents, Homer and Morticia, send the young woman to Nevermore Academy, an educational institution. where a series of mysteries and murders occur. In addition, in this place the teenager begins to manifest some psychic powers.
Chaos, mystery, death… Merlina Addams is the girl of your nightmares. The new series from the mind of Tim Burton is coming to Netflix. pic.twitter.com/2mS9lgrHm6
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