More tricks and treats await you in 'The Addams Family 2', coming on Halloween in 2021

The sequel to MGM's hugely successful 2019 box office hit The Addams family completed her stellar vocal cast with the addition of Bill Hader as the new character "Cyrus" e Javon "Wanna" Walton taking on the role of the younger Addams brother, "Pugsley". Hader and Walton join the Addams Family movie stars Charlize Theron (Morticia), Oscar Isaac (Gomez), Chloë Grace Moretz (Wednesday), Nick Kroll (Fester), Bette Midler (Grandmother) e Snoop Dogg (Itt).

Director Greg Tiernan is also back for the sequel, which will be released in theaters 8 October 2021 via MGM's United Artists Releasing banner.

"The success of last year's animated film was proof of the enduring legacy of The Addams family and its ability to transcend popular culture, "said Tiernan." This second film will be just as fun as the original. We are thrilled to welcome Bill Hader and Javon Walton and welcome back our incredible original cast for it. exciting next chapter of Addams' journey. "

Additionally, an Addams Family superfan will have the exciting and unique opportunity to voice a yet-to-be-named character in the film upon entering. The Addams Family Vocal Challenge. The global voice competition will run from 8 October to 4 November in select markets. Interested applicants can visit www.AddamsVoiceChallenge.com to learn more about how to apply.

In The Addams Family 2, The Addams find themselves embroiled in wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious confrontations with all kinds of unsuspecting characters. Always remaining true to themselves, the Addams family take their iconic spookiness and extravagance wherever they go. The film is produced by Gail Berman, Conrad Vernon, Danielle Sterling and Alison O'Brien. Executive producers are Jonathan Glickman, Cassidy Lange and Andrew Mittman. Laura Brousseau and Kevin Pavlovic will serve as co-directors along with Tiernan.

Bill Hader went from being a master of impressions Saturday Night Live to the creation, direction, writing, production and role of an exhausted killer trying to break into the Los Angeles theater scene on HBO's Emmy-nominated series BARRY, who will return for his third season in 2021. He is also co-creator of IFC Documentary Now! and spent eight seasons SNL, earning four Emmy nominations for her work on the series. Hader starred in films such as Trainwreck, Superbad, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder e The skeleton twins. He recently starred in the 2019 box office hit, It Chapter Two, the sequel to the 2017 horror film, It.

Javon 'Wanna' Walton is known as Under Armor's youngest athlete. He is a five-time state champion of Georgia and four-time Southeastern United States regional boxing champion. Walton currently stars in Utopia, Amazon's adaptation of the British television series, written by Gillian Flynn, starring Sasha Lane, Dan Byrd and John Cusack. In the summer of 2021, Walton will star opposite Sylvester Stallone in MGM's next superhero movie Samaritan. In 2019, he made his acting debut as "Ashtray" in HBO's critically acclaimed audience favorite film, Euphoria, and will reprise his role in the highly anticipated Season 2. With over 270.000 active Instagram followers, Walton was discovered when Steve Harvey found him on social media in 2017 and took him to Steve.

Future versions of MGM include Compared, starring Jennifer Hudson, Academy Award winner, the 25th film in the James Bond series There is no time to die with Daniel Craig, Candyman by writer / producer Jordan Peele and Samaritan with Sylvester Stallone. Projects recently announced by the studio include that of Ron Howard Thirteen lives, the Martian the next novel by author Andy Weir (aka Ave Maria project) with directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing, Tommy Kail's film adaptation of The violinist on the roof, dog co-directed by Channing Tatum (who will also star) and Reid Carolin, by David Slade Dark Harvest, Paul Thomas Anderson's next film about the San Fernando Valley of the 70s, Cyrano by director Joe Wright and Ridley Scott's Gucci project.