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Netflix Release Premiere Date & Character Posters For ‘The Umbrella Academy’

by Dave Elliott
Netflix Release Premiere Date & Character Poster For 'The Umbrella Academy'

Netflix Release Premiere Date & Character Poster For ‘The Umbrella Academy’

Netflix has released a full set of character posters & first-look photos for their upcoming adaptation of The Umbrella Academy‘, plus revealed the show will premiere in February 2019.

For those of you unfamiliar with ‘The Umbrella Academy’, it is based on the popular, Eisner award-winning comics and graphic novels created and written by Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance), illustrated by Gabriel Bá, and published by Dark Horse Comics.

On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist, who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. But not everything went according to plan. In their teenage years, the family fractured and the team disbanded. Now, the six surviving thirty-something members reunite upon the news of Hargreeve’s passing.

Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Vanya and Number Five work together to solve a mystery surrounding their father’s 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.

1. Tom Hopper stars as Luther (aka Spaceboy), groomed from an early age to be the leader of The Umbrella Academy – a responsibility weighs heavily on him. He is resilient, a workaholic, and possesses the ability of heightened physical strength. Upstanding to a fault, Luther always tries to do the right thing, even if that means putting others before himself.

Hopper has most recently been seen playing Dickon Tarly in ‘Game Of Thrones’, but also starred as Billy Bones in ‘Black Sails’ and, of course, Sir Percival in ‘Merlin’.

2. David Castañeda takes on Diego (aka The Kraken), a skilled, intense vigilante who has a real problem with authority. He isn’t as naturally strong or smart as his siblings, so he’s worked three times as hard for everything. Believing he should have been the leader of his family instead of his brother, he carries a massive chip on his shoulder that makes him hostile to just about everyone.

Castañeda has appeared in tv shows such as ‘Switched at Birth’, where he played Jorge and ‘Jane the Virgin’ as Nicholas. He’s also popped up in episodes of ‘Blindspot’‘Lie to Me’ and ‘The Player’.

3. Emmy Raver-Lampman portrays Allison (aka The Rumor) who is beautiful, elegant, and a formerly world-famous movie star who possesses the power of suggestion – anything she says aloud comes to pass. Her life seems perfect from the outside, but her ability has undermined every relationship she’s ever had. With her career on the decline and her marriage in shambles, she refuses to use her power as she seeks a more authentic life.

Raver-Lampman has mainly been a stage actress up to this point, having performed in the Broadway productions of ‘Hamilton’‘Hair’ and ‘Jekyll & Hyde’, along with the Chicago productions of ‘Hamilton’, where she played Angelica Schuyler, and ‘The SpongeBob Musical’.

4. Robert Sheehan plays Klaus (aka The Séance), which, if you know Sheehan’s work, pretty much sounds perfect for him. He is a drug addict and lovable mess of a human being and yet, if you ask him, any day now his life is going to turn around. He’s a classic “middle child” – a disarming pleaser who is seemingly everyone’s friend but will rob you blind without thinking twice.

Sheehan came to most people’s attention playing Nathan Young in the brilliant ‘Misfits’. He then went on to star as Darren in ‘Love/Hate’, Vladek in ‘Fortitude’, and a load of other tv & film roles.

5. Aidan Gallagher stars as Number Five (aka The Boy) who appears to be a thirteen-year-old boy, but is actually a fifty-eight-year-old man trapped in the body of a child. He doesn’t suffer fools and is the smartest person in the room. He’s haunted by the things he’s seen and done, and is on the verge of losing his grip on reality.

Gallagher is only 14yrs old, but will be well known to younger fans as Nicky in Nickelodeon’s ‘Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn’.

6. Ben (aka The Horror) – Well… As you can see, there’s no casting listed for this, due to his not being alive, as the poster says.

7. Ellen Page plays Vanya Hargreeves, the black sheep of their dysfunctional family unit. She is said to be the only one of Reginald Hargreeves’ adopted children with no apparent supernatural abilities… She is a meek and insecure wallflower, just struggling to find her place in the world.

Page is no stranger to superhero and comic book adaptations, having starred as Kitty Pryde in the ‘X-Men’ franchise, and playing Lilly in James Gunn’s ‘Super’.  She was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for her part playing the title role in ‘Juno’, and also played the female lead in Christopher Nolan’s mind-bendingly brilliant ‘Inception’.

In addition to the character posters, Netflix also released some set photos, which you can see below:

The Umbrella Academy
The Umbrella Academy
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

The series is produced by Universal Cable Productions for Netflix. Steve Blackman (Fargo, Altered Carbon) will serve as executive producer and showrunner, with additional executive producers Jeff F. King (Hand of God), Bluegrass Television, and Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg from Dark Horse Entertainment. Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá will serve as co-executive producers.

The 10-episode Season 1 of ‘The Umbrella Academy‘ will premiere Friday, 15th February 2019 on Netflix.

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