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According to Deadline, series creator and showrunner Steve Blackman made the announcement on Sunday at the SXSW film festival.
The streamer also released two first-look photos and a teaser of the show on its social media pages.
”The Umbrella Academy”, an adaptation of a comic book series of the same name from Dark Horse Comics, is about a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes who reunite to solve the mystery of their father’s death, and the threat of an impending apocalypse.
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The upcoming season is executive produced by Blackman, Jeff F King, who also directs, Keith Goldberg, Mike Richardson and Jeremy Webb.
”The Umbrella Academy” is produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, for Netflix.