The dysfunctional superhero family returns home convinced they prevented the initial apocalypse and fixed time, but…The Sparrow Has Landed and things aren’t exactly how they left them; all new episodes stream June 22.
‘Umbrella Academy’ Season 3. Images courtesy of Netflix.
Netflix certainly got my attention – and it’s so exciting, I can’t stop leaping back and forth into the future! Wearing shorts! Coming June 22, the Netflix original series, The Umbrella Academy Season 3 is finally (almost) back with all 10 episodes dropping the same day. I’m clearing my calendar! And… just to add to the anticipation, check out the teaser video and images and get ready for more misadventures with the dysfunctional, estranged superhero family.
The popular live-action series is based on Eisner award-winning comics and graphic novels of the same name created and written by Gerard Way (“My Chemical Romance”), illustrated by Gabriel Bá and published by Dark Horse Comics.
In Season 3, after putting a stop to 1963’s doomsday while continually annoyed with each other, the Umbrella Academy heroes return home to the present, convinced they prevented the initial apocalypse and fixed this godforsaken timeline once and for all. But after a brief moment of celebration, they realize things aren’t exactly (okay, not at all) how they left them. Enter the Sparrow Academy. Smart, stylish, and about as warm as a sea of icebergs, the Sparrows immediately clash with the Umbrellas in a violent face-off that turns out to be the least of everyone’s concerns. Navigating challenges, losses, and surprises of their own – and dealing with an unidentified destructive entity wreaking havoc in the Universe (something they may have caused) — now all they need to do is convince Dad’s new and possibly better family to help them put right what their arrival made wrong. Will they find a way back to their pre-apocalyptic lives? Or is this new world about to reveal more than just a hiccup in the timeline?
Check out two different versions of the teaser:
The show is created for television by Steve Blackman who also serves as executive producer and showrunner. Jeff F. King serves as director and executive producer. Also serving as executive producers are Keith Goldberg, Mike Richardson, and Jeremy Webb (episode 301). Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá are co-executive producers and Steve Wakefield served as producer for episodes 301-307.
The cast includes Elliot Page; Tom Hopper; David Castañeda; Robert Sheehan; Aidan Gallagher; Emmy Raver-Lampman; Justin H. Min; Colm Feore; Ritu Arya; Justin Cornwell; Britne Oldford; Jake Epstein; Genesis Rodriguez; Cazzie David; and Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton.
No definitive word yet on which studios are handling the VFX production, but we’ll make that info available once in hand.
Umbrella Academy is produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, for Netflix.
Source: Netflix
Debbie Diamond Sarto is news editor at Animation World Network.
