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The kookiest family on the block is trading black-and-white panels for a full-color animated haunted house.

MGM has dropped the official trailer for “The Addams Family,” the studio’s computer-animated reboot of Charles Addams’s macabre New Yorker comic strip, and it’s aiming for theaters on October 11, 2019. Directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan — the pair behind “Sausage Party” — are steering this version back toward Addams’s original cartoon aesthetic rather than the look of the 1960s sitcom or the Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston films. Matt Lieberman’s script drops the family into an abandoned New Jersey asylum, right in the crosshairs of a neighborhood that has no idea what’s about to move in next door.

• Oscar Isaac voices Gomez Addams and Charlize Theron voices Morticia, with Chloë Grace Moretz as Wednesday and Finn Wolfhard as Pugsley.
• Nick Kroll, Bette Midler, and Snoop Dogg round out the cast as Uncle Fester, Grandma, and Cousin Itt, respectively.
• Cinesite Studios handled the animation, with visual designs deliberately built to echo Charles Addams’s original cartoons rather than the live-action adaptations.

A Voice Cast Built for the Bit

Casting Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron as Gomez and Morticia is a swing for prestige-adjacent star power in a genre that usually leans on comedians alone, and the trailer leans into their chemistry as the anchor of the family’s dynamic. Chloë Grace Moretz’s Wednesday and Finn Wolfhard’s Pugsley give the film a built-in pull with the “Stranger Things” audience, since Wolfhard’s Mike Wheeler is one of that show’s most recognizable faces. Nick Kroll’s Uncle Fester and Bette Midler’s Grandma fill out the household’s chaos, while Snoop Dogg turns up as the voice of Cousin Itt — a casting choice that’s more punchline than plot point, but one the trailer clearly knows will land.

Returning to the Original Cartoons

The animation itself is the trailer’s real pitch. Rather than chase the gothic-glam look of the Barry Sonnenfeld films, Cinesite Studios and the filmmakers went back to Charles Addams’s 1930s New Yorker panels for character shapes, proportions, and that specific deadpan stillness the strip was known for. It’s a deliberate contrast: this Addams Family looks less like a horror-movie parody and more like the drawings actually sprang to life.

The family relocates to an abandoned asylum in New Jersey — and the neighborhood has no idea what’s coming.

Gothic Eccentricity Meets Suburban Conformity

The premise driving the trailer’s jokes is a familiar fish-out-of-water setup, but sharpened by the Addamses’ total lack of self-awareness about how unsettling they are. Once they settle into their new asylum-turned-home, their neighbors — polished, conformist, and thoroughly unprepared for a family that treats séances and swordplay as normal Tuesday activities — become the real comedic engine. It’s the same culture-clash logic that’s powered every Addams Family iteration since the strip debuted, just rendered now in full CG color.

Fans curious about how other reboots and franchise relaunches have fared with their casting swings might find some useful comparison points among recent trailer breakdowns, including the studio’s handling of tone shifts in adaptations like Halo: The Series or the visual reinvention behind Marvel’s Moon Knight.

With the October 11 release date locked in, the next real marker for “The Addams Family” is whatever footage or marketing push MGM rolls out closer to the fall — but for now, the trailer has already done its job: reminding audiences that Gomez and Morticia can still make suburbia look like the strange one.