‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 3 Officially Begins Production at Netflix [EXCLUSIVE]

“The Umbrella Academy” Season 3 has officially started production and has begun filming today in Toronto. The announcement came from none other than the showrunner Steve Blackman himself, who posted the update on Instagram.

Earlier, the series was renewed for season 3 in November, when it was already rumored to start the pre-production on season 3 in the same month. Season 2 was launched on July 31, and it was the most-watched show on all of the streaming platforms in its first week. Season 2 was the most-watched show on Netflix in 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

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Last month, Netflix also revealed the new cast members who will be joining season 3 of “The Umbrella Academy”. The new cast members will form the new Sparrow Academy, which was introduced in the season 2 finale in an alternate 2019. Justin H. Min, Justin Cornwell, Britne Oldford, Genesis Rodriguez, Cazzie David, Jake Epstein, and destined-for-greatness actor known as “Existential Dread Inducing Psykronium Cube” are set to join The Umbrella Academy as this new motley crew with extraordinary abilities. More info here.

At the end of the second season of “The Umbrella Academy,” the originally adopted children of Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) returned from their trip to the 1960s to find their disruption of the timeline yet again caused some major changes, namely in the creation of a class of Sparrows — one that included Ben (Justin H. Min), who had previously died.

In Season 2, Five is proven right in warning his family that using his powers to escape from Vanya’s 2019 apocalypse was risky. The time jump scatters the siblings in time in and around Dallas. Some, having been stuck in the past for years, have built lives and moved on, certain they’re the only ones who survived. Five is the last to land, smack dab in the middle of a nuclear doomsday, which turns out is a result of the group’s disruption of the timeline. Now the Umbrella Academy must find a way to reunite, figure out what caused doomsday, put a stop to it, and return to the present timeline to stop that other apocalypse. All while being hunted by a trio of ruthless Swedish assassins.

The upcoming third season will therefore see returning characters Vanya (Elliot Page), Luther (Tom Hopper), Diego (David Castañeda), Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), Klaus (Robert Sheehan), and Five (Aidan Gallagher) having to deal with these changes. Lila (Ritu Arya) will also be back in the mix, as will Pogo (Adam Godley) and Hargreeves himself.

The Umbrella Academy is created for television by Steve Blackman, who is the showrunner and also serves as executive producer alongside Jeff F. King, Keith Goldberg, Mike Richardson, and Jesse McKeown. Gerard. King also serves as director. Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, who are behind the graphic novels from which this series takes inspiration, serve as co-executive producers.

The show is produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, for Netflix.