The cast of Wednesday made a video appearance at Netflix’s Tudum global fan event in São Paulo, Brazil, and teased that a new Addams family member was joining in Season 2.

Jenna Ortega (Wednesday Addams), Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay), Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair) and Hunter Doohan (Tyler Galpin) dispelled fan theories and one of them was around speculation there would be a new member of the Addams family showing up.

The cast confirmed the news that viewers would get to see more of Wednesday’s family but did not reveal who it would be. Ortega said she “would love to see Cousin Itt” while the other cast members said they wanted to see Grandma Addams.

Another fan theory that the cast tackled was Gwendoline Christie’s Professor Weems who was seemingly left for dead at the end of the first season. Ortega points out that viewers “never see her funeral” which gives way to speculation she could still be alive. Fans have pointed out that at the end of the season, Lurch has seemingly a different eye color than when viewers first met him, with some speculating it could be Weems, who is a shapeshifter.

As for teasing Season 2, the cast was limited as to what they could say. Myers opened up by saying that “Wednesday Season 2 is being worked on right now and the storyline is so top secret even we don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Watch the Wednesday cast address more fan theories in the video posted above.

Fort Boyard and Survivor producer ALP’s Alexia Laroche-Joubert and Frédéric Lussato are launching a Banijay-backed scripted label in France.

Screen Line Productions will focus on character-driven content, as the two French vets develop original ideas as well as book adaptations, spanning mainly youth-oriented themes. Banijay said a debut commission will be unveiled soon. As part of the launch, the pair have appointed Lavinia Jullien as Development Executive.

The pair run ALP, which produces some of France’s biggest non-scripted shows including Fort Boyard and Koh Lanta (Survivor).

“During my career I have created and adapted many formats from the world of entertainment including Koh Lanta (Survivor) and Star Academy, with the commonality of all being popular formats,” said Laroche-Joubert. “With our knowledge of this audience paired with production expertise, Screen Line is geared up to develop ambitious projects for a wide audience.”

Banijay France also runs the likes of Shine Fiction, Terence Films, Marathon and Montmartre. Yesterday, Banijay unveiled a move into the live events space with the acquisition of Olympic Games ceremony organizer Balich Wonder Studio.

Please note: the screening and panel took place on April 28, before the start of the WGA Strike.

Once he saw Chernobyl, Neil Druckmann decided it was time to have lunch with the writer behind the hit HBO limited series. Druckmann had no ulterior motive in wanting to meet Craig Mazin other than to “gush” about the 2019 historical drama — that is, until they began to chat about The Last of Us action-adventure game, which Druckmann wrote in 2014.

“He was a big fan of The Last of Us,” Druckmann recalled at April’s The Last of Us hosted by Deadline FYC House + HBO Max. “So then we started charting about it and in the conversation, I saw the love he had for the material in a way that I never felt with another person outside of Naughty Dog.”

Within weeks, Mazin arranged for the two of them to meet with veteran producer Carolyn Strauss before pitching the adaptation to HBO.

“She bought into the show and did this thing that now everybody does, which is like, ‘I’m not a gamer, don’t be offended,’” remembered Mazin. “I’m like, it’s okay. You don’t have to be a gamer to enjoy this story.”

And with that, The Last of Us was in production — and during a global pandemic, no less. Fortunately, there was no concern about dramatizing a post-apocalyptic story during an already depressing time in our world’s history.

“We were already in too deep by then,” Strauss remembered. “We just had to keep going. I guess it was an unhappy accident.”

“Honestly, the show has a lot of depressing things in it, to be fair,” continued Mazin. “It has something for everyone really. So our feeling was, ‘eh, what’s one more horrible thing?”

The result was an adaptation that remains mostly faithful to the game — that is, until episode 3, when Mazin and Druckmann introduces a survivalist named Bill (Nick Offerman) who falls hard for a man (Murray Bartlett) who stumbles onto his land. Bill and Frank exist in The Last of Us game, but their romance is more implied than actually depicted. In fact, you never see Frank in the game and their relationship ends badly.

In the adaptation, however, the two live a peaceful life in Bill’s bucolic little neighborhood, until tragedy brings their storybook romance to an end.

“It was something that Neil and I talked about as we were going through, before we wrote any scripts,” recalled Mazin. “We just broke the whole story of the game apart into episodes and talked about how we wanted to adapt it. And one of the things that’s amazing about Neil, and I think this makes him unique among people who create source material, is that he understands an adaptation is not just something you do just because it’s essential. The adaptation in the correct way is important. And there are times where you want to just kind of go in a different way. One of the things that Neil would say all the time is that there was this very freeing aspect of storytelling in this medium, because we could shift perspective in the game. You are Joel, or later on in the game, you’re Ellie, but you’re either one and you’re never anybody else.”

“So to that extent, Bill had to be somebody that you meet as Joel and you experience as Joel, who serves the story of Joel and Ellie,” continued Mazin. “We didn’t have that. We had an interest in showing how time had passed from the beginning of the outbreak to where we were in the show. But I didn’t really want to do some random, kind of here’s the way the world went. I always like to look inside of relationships, and there was an opportunity to take a kernel of a story that was in the game and just expand it and turn it on its ear and make it the centerpiece that is sort of like a donut hole. It was just a wonderful time making that episode.”

To watch more videos from the Deadline FYC House + HBO Max event series, click here.