According to reports, Universal Pictures' Illumination Entertainment and producer Chris Meledandri are developing a stop-motion, animated 3D "Addams Family" feature, based on the New Yorker illustrations by cartoonist Charles Addams.
Addams' original one-panel gag cartoons, never attributed names to the characters, until an ABC TV live-action, comedy sitcom was being developed. Addams then named the father 'Gomez', the mother 'Morticia', the uncle 'Fester', the butler 'Lurch', the daughter 'Wednesday' and the son 'Pubert', (later changed to 'Pugsley' at the insistence of the network).
'Thing' was based on a New Yorker cartoon which depicted a shocked mailman reacting to a sign posted on the Addams' mansion, warning "Beware of the Thing".
While developing the series, Addams explained that 'thing" was originally meant to be a disembodied head that rolled through the house on various ramps and pulleys. ABC later decided that a 'hand' would be better suited for a family audience.
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