Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman, as Wednesday and Puggsley, had grown up, so a return for them was out of the question. It looked for some continuity, too, to bring over at least some of the audience goodwill that the movies had generated.Īpproaches duly went out to Anjelica Huston to reprise the role of Morticia Addams, and Christopher Lloyd to come back as Uncle Fester.īoth declined. and Saban (the Power Rangers people) then had plans for a new television project, The New Addams Family.Īddams adventures on the small screen (although the origins of the Addams Family lie in Charles Addams original cartoon strips, and the subsequent TV series, so in this case, it was perhaps more returning home). Paramount distributed the first two Addams Family movies, having snapped up the first film late in production from the financially-challenged Orion.īut Warner Bros. Then, the tragic early death of Raul Julia in October 1994, at the age of just 54, made a future Addams Family sequel unthinkable. Christina Ricci, clinging to a fence as shes threatened with the Harmony Hut, remains a comedy highlight of 1990s cinema.Īs much as it was liked, its box office was less than half of the original.ĭoubtfire in the US, and it was the latter that became the widely seen family comedy of Christmas 1993.Īddams Family Values would do okay at best, but would fall a long way short of the takings for the first film.
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