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Everything you need to know about upcoming plans for Netflix's comic series
Following a ‘dysfunctional family of superheroes’, The Umbrella Academy launched on Netflix in February 2019.
Based on the comic book series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba, the ten-part drama tracks an ensemble of adopted misfits. After the death of their foster father, the siblings – who have been estranged since they were teenagers – are forced to reunite to ward off an incoming apocalypse.
Ending onan explosive cliffhanger, there’s no shortage of material for a second run, with Way and Ba already planning eight instalments of their comic book series.
Netflix has confirmed that The Umbrella Academy will indeed be back for season two. Find out more about the show’s return below.
When is The Umbrella Academy season two released on Netflix?
The show has been renewed for 10 more episodes, with all of the main cast (including Ellen Page) set to return. Check out the announcement video below via The Umbrella Academy Twitter account.
Hello.
Season 2.
Goodbye. pic.twitter.com/0P5VRQlP1j
— Umbrella Academy (@UmbrellaAcad) April 2, 2019
It’s currently not clear when season two will be released, although showrunner Steve Blackman has previously said it takes “around 18 months” to make each series.
That could tip season two into the latter half of 2020. Season one by contrast was released on 15th February 2019.
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In terms of future timeline, comic book series co-creator Way has previously said he is keen to avoid the Netflix series overtaking the books – as has happened with the latter series of Game of Thrones.
“The goal for us is to stay ahead of the show,” Way said, “and since we’re on series three [of the comics], we are now ahead of the show. So that’s a good thing. The idea with the comic is to go right from series three, take a three-to-four-month break, then go right into series four. That is kind of our schedule to keep us on track. So there is story there and it’s all planned out.”
The first two volumes of The Umbrella Academy were published back to back in 2008, before there was a 10-year break while Way focused on other projects.
Who’s in the cast of the second season of The Umbrella Academy?
**WARNING: contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy series one**
The final episode sees the Umbrella Academy band together against their sibling Vanya (Ellen Page) to stop her in her mission to try and destroy the world with her apocalyptic fire.
But in a twist, she destroys the moon which rains world-killing fragments down onto Earth.
It is down to the quick-thinking of Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) that the Academy are saved, as he pulls them back in time to when they were teenagers to try and and stop the apocalypse from when they were younger.
However, all of the major players, including Tom Hopper, David Castaneda, Emmy Raver-Lampman and Robert Sheehan, have signed on for season two, so that age regression must not be permanent…
In June Ellen Page (Vanya) posted a series on Instagram photos of herself, Sheehan, Hopper and Rover-Lampman alongside the caption “We’re back” and an umbrella emoji — suggesting the gifted siblings will definitely be returning to their adults forms at some point along the line.
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Fan favourite Aidan Gallagher will be back to play Number Five, a man in his 50s inside a child’s body. On what it was like to film his scenes with his “love interest” shop mannequin Dolores, he told RadioTimes.com: “I started off by creating my own dialogue with Dolores in my head. That way, when I was reacting to her I was really playing both parts.
“You have to go to a place of a man trapped alone in a world with a mannequin and no one else for 45 years. The mannequin they got is very lifelike and it seems like she is looking right at you. People have really taken to Dolores.”
Have any plot details been revealed for the second series of The Umbrella Academy?
Netflix is being very tight-lipped about what will happen in The Umbrella Academy season two, and series star Aidan Gallagher told RadioTimes.com that plot details are “top-secret information and Netflix would have to kill me if I said anything”.
He added: “Will it be mind blowing? Yes, it will be way better than season one. Our showrunner Steve is the best writer and has the best writing staff. It will be epic. I can’t wait to film all of it.”
If Blackman follows the comic book series exactly, the second series will see the surviving members of the Academy, stuck in the past, attempt to change the course of history and prevent the end of the world by assassinating John F Kennedy (who, as it turns out, was not assassinated in the world that Number 5, Spaceboy and co inhabit).
Way has already given Blackman an 18-page document that spells out the narrative of the comic book.
But Way adds he has a “mutual respect” for Blackman should he feel the need to make changes to the screenplay.
“It’s cool because Steve is super respectful of the source material and asks me questions and sometimes, he’ll ask me to help solve problems. Then, at the same time, he’s going, and because there’s a mutual respect, he’s going and making changes and I’m supporting those changes,” Way said. “I want him to feel free to tell the story he wants.”
“The goal is not to diverge. Not everything translates from the graphic novel page to the screen, but there’s a legion of fans and I want to bring in a whole new legion of fans who’ve never read the graphic novel, so the goal is not to just go off in our own direction,” Blackman said. “I like Gerard and Gabriel’s ideas so much, the goal is keep on trucking behind them, beside them.
“Things will deviate, but the goal is to try to be true to the source material.”
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The Umbrella Academy – Netflix’s new superhero series featuring a star-studded cast including Ellen Page, Mary J. Blige, and Tom Hopper – kicked off to stellar reviews, and quickly developed a devout fan base.
With the pilot season – released February 18 – already becoming a distant memory, there’s one question overflowing comic forums and running rampant across social media outlets: when can we expect season two?
According to NME, Netflix has confirmed The Umbrella Academy for season two, and the show is set to go into production by the end of the year in Toronto. Peter Hoar, the man behind the pilot episode, will direct the season two premiere. Unfortunately, a premiere date has not yet been released; however, if filming is set to begin in late 2019, the show will likely premiere mid-2020.
What will season 2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’ be about?
*Spoilers Ahead*
Given season one’s finale, viewers who have yet to read the Dark Horse Comics behind the show, are left to wonder where season two will pick up. Will a younger cast be introduced (in addition to the current one)? Will the show transition between two time periods, and illustrate how one continuously impacts the other? Will we get completely lost in a Butterfly Effect-type plot sequence?
Regarding the future of the series, Gerard Way (the man behind the original comics) stated that it’s already planned:
“What I did for Steve Blackman (the showrunner) and the writers in that first writers’ room was to create an 18-page document that laid everything out…Even of the graphic novels that haven’t come out yet. Which should equal eight when we’re all done. So I gave them the blueprint for what happens, because you do want to seed certain things in there for future series, and the hope is that it’s a success, so that you do a lot more of these.”
According to NMESo, while speculation is always fun, your best bet at figuring out what’s to come involves hitting your local comic book store. The show may not mirror the comic book series progression verbatim; however, you’ll likely be able to parse together a few main plot trajectories or character explorations.
Since Way revealed that the show creators have access to information that has yet to be released via comic plot, Netflix may hone in on those stories to avoid too much synonymity with the comics; however, that is still unknown.
“Let’s do the time warp again!”
What is certain (or at least seems most probable): some of the show will have to take place in the past. At the end of the finale, we see all seven siblings enter a time warp into the past – before Vanya catalyzes the apocalypse. However, they are all first transformed into their younger selves (as was number five when he traveled back to the past).
With the entire cast aging backward, the introduction of an additional younger cast seems likely. Maybe the show, in a similar vein to X-Men: Days of Future Past, will show the characters interacting with themselves.
Wherever the new season goes, here’s to hoping that it lives up to its predecessor. From The White Violon’s internal turmoil and familial heartbreak to Luther’s daddy issues and Number Five’s superiority complex, the show took a unique approach to the superhero genre, and it soared. Season one was a little gothic, a little comedic, a little somber, and a lot refreshing. The expectations for season two are high.