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Tim Burton has signed up to work with the writers of Ed Wood on a forthcoming Addams Family project.



Scott Alexander and Larry Karazewski wrote the screenplay for Burton's 1994 film, which starred Johnny Depp as cross-dressing B-movie legend Ed Wood.

The Alice In Wonderland director will now work with the duo on a forthcoming adaptation of The Addams Family. The 3D stop-motion film will be based on the drawings published in The New Yorker by celebrated cartoonist Charles Addams.

The deal will also see Alexander and Karazewski work together on Big Eyes, a film based on cult artist Margaret Keane.

Karaszewski told Deadline: "Both of these projects are based on artwork that Tim absolutely loves.

"The retrospective in New York of Tim's own artwork showed how much of an influence Charles Addams was to him. We want the tone to be as darkly funny and subversive as the Addams drawings, and we've come up with an approach that nobody has ever done before."