Alec Bojalad Feb 15, 2019
We talked with the cast and crew of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy about adapting a beloved comic and saving the world.
The Umbrella Academy creator Gerard Way had all but given up on ever seeing a live action adaptation of his beloved, off-the-wall superhero comic.
Way had been through the Hollywood ringer with the property, listening to pitches for a movie there, or a TV show here. He was even present at three meetings with Jeremy Slater, The Exorcist showrunner who wrote a live-action Umbrella Academy pilot and was working to sell the show. Still by 2017, ten years after the first issue of the comic debuted, Way decided that he would rather just focus on new issues of the comic, and leave a potential show be. Naturally, Netflix then immediately picked up Slater’s pilot to series with Steve Blackman (Fargo) as showrunner.
further reading: The Umbrella...
We talked with the cast and crew of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy about adapting a beloved comic and saving the world.
The Umbrella Academy creator Gerard Way had all but given up on ever seeing a live action adaptation of his beloved, off-the-wall superhero comic.
Way had been through the Hollywood ringer with the property, listening to pitches for a movie there, or a TV show here. He was even present at three meetings with Jeremy Slater, The Exorcist showrunner who wrote a live-action Umbrella Academy pilot and was working to sell the show. Still by 2017, ten years after the first issue of the comic debuted, Way decided that he would rather just focus on new issues of the comic, and leave a potential show be. Naturally, Netflix then immediately picked up Slater’s pilot to series with Steve Blackman (Fargo) as showrunner.
further reading: The Umbrella...
- 2/2/2019
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