Netflix have officially renewed The Umbrella Academy for a second season.
The superhero show – which is based on the award-winning comic and graphic novels created and written by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá – won over fans almost immediately after it debuted in February this year.
Now, the streaming service have confirmed that season two is on the way – and Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, and Justin Min are all set to reprise their roles.
Production on season two – which will be 10 one-hour episodes – will begin this summer in Toronto.
Steve Blackman (Fargo, Altered Carbon) will return as Showrunner and Executive Producer.
Executive Producers also set to return alongside Blackman include Jeff F. King (EP), Mike Richardson (EP), Keith Goldberg (EP), Gerard Way (Co-EP), and Gabriel Bá (Co-EP).
The series begins in 1989, when 43 babies are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who previously showed no signs of pregnancy.
Seven of them are adopted by billionaire industrialist Sir Reginald Hargreaves, who creates The Umbrella Academy to prepare his ‘children’ to save the world.
But not everything went according to plan.
The family ended up breaking apart after a tragedy in their teenage years, and the team disbanded. The six surviving members of the team are reunited after Hargreaves’ sudden death.
The estranged siblings – Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Vanya and Number Five – try to work together to solve the mystery surrounding his 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 in eight days.
