'Umbrella Academy' Renewed for Season 2 by Netflix
"The Umbrella Academy" is officially returning for Season 2.
Netflix announced it has ordered a 10-episode second season of superhero drama based on the Dark Horse Comics created by Gerard Way. Production will begin this summer.
Ellen Page (Vanya), Tom Hopper (Luther), David Castañeda (Diego), Emmy Raver-Lampman (Allison), Robert Sheehan (Klaus), Aidan Gallagher (Number Five), and Justin Min (Ben) are set to reprise their roles.
It's unknown if time-traveling assassins Hazel (Cameron Britton) and Cha-Cha (Mary J. Blige) will be back. Blige had a one-year deal on the show.
Season 1 ended on a major cliffhanger, which could upend the entire structure of the show.
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In the finale, Number Five used his time-traveling abilities to save his siblings from the world-ending apocalypse. It seemed that they reverted to their adolescent bodies.
Way has written three comic books and has plans for five more. And though the show hasn't followed the books' timelines and plots exactly thus far, showrunner Steve Blackman told The Hollywood Reporter, "The idea is not to deviate too much."
"We want to stay on course with what the comics are doing, and having that plan ahead of time allows us to set some things up now for later seasons, things that you'll see and later be like, 'Oh, I get that now, they did that for this reason.' That's what we're thinking ahead to."