Back in October, Netflix teased us with imagery for Gerard Way‘s(My Chemical Romance) The Umbrella Academy. Today the streaming giants tease us even more with the series First Trailer.
Comic Book fans looking for something that doesn’t follow totally follow the traditional tropes of the sub-genre, this could be the one. A ‘family’ of heroes whose mothers unconnected, adopted by a billionaire who wants to prepare them to save the world.
Ellen Page stars as one of the Academy, she’s no stranger from Superhero universes with her time in X-Men. Looks very off-kilter, very different, slightly darker possibly like Tim Burton creating a DC Vertigo Comic film. Whilst the recent and upcoming comic books look promising, the established need a challenger could this be it?
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On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist, who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. But not everything went according to plan. In their teenage years, the family fractured and the team disbanded. Now, the six surviving thirty-something members reunite upon the news of Hargreeve’s passing. Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Vanya and Number Five work together to solve a mystery surrounding their father’s death. But the estranged family once again begins to come apart due to their divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse.
The series will star Ellen Page, Mary J. Blige, Cameron Britton, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Colm Feore, Adam Godley, John Magaro, Ashley Madekwe, Kate Walsh.
Meet the super dysfunctional family members of The Umbrella Academy, launching globally on Netflix February 15, 2019.
