The Umbrella Academy will have a Season 3 as Netflix has ordered a new season for one of its most popular shows based on the comic book of the same name.
Filming on Season 3, which will consist of ten episodes, will start in Toronto.
The cast is set to return which includes Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, and Colm Feore, and also coming back is executive producer/showrunner Steve Blackman.
Based on the popular, Eisner award-winning comics and graphic novels created and written by Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, The Umbrella Academy is a live-action series that follows the estranged members of a dysfunctional family of superheroes (The Umbrella Academy) — The Monocle, Spaceboy, The Kraken, The Rumor, The Séance, Number Five, The Horror, and The White Violin — as they work together to solve their father’s mysterious death while coming apart at the seams due to their divergent personalities and abilities. Published by Dark Horse Comics, the comic series garnered much praise from fans and critics alike for its alternate and twisted take on the superhero genre.
Executive producers for The Umbrella Academy Season 3 alongside Blackman include Jeff F. King, who also directs episodes, Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg, and Jesse McKeown; Way and Bá co-executive produce.
The Umbrella Academy ranks as the third-most watched Netflix series for 2019; released on July 31, Season 2 led Nielsen’s first Streaming Top 10.
The Umbrella Academy Season 2 is described as:
Five warned his family (so, so many times) that using his powers to escape from Vanya’s 2019 apocalypse was risky. Well, he was right – the time jump scatters the siblings in time in and around Dallas, Texas. Over a three year period. Starting in 1960. Some, having been stuck in the past for years, have built lives and moved on, certain they’re the only ones who survived. Five is the last to land, smack dab in the middle of a nuclear doomsday, which – spoiler alert! – turns out is a result of the group’s disruption of the timeline (déjà vu, anyone?). Now the Umbrella Academy must find a way to reunite, figure out what caused doomsday, put a stop to it, and return to the present timeline to stop that other apocalypse. All while being hunted by a trio of ruthless Swedish assassins. But seriously, no pressure or anything.
