Beijing News (reporter Wuzhi) On February 15, the superhero comic drama "Umbrella Academy" was officially launched on Netflix, with a total of 10 episodes in the first season, each episode of 1 hour, which will be released at one time.
The series is based on the comic of the same name by My Chemical Romance lead singer Gerard Way, starring Alan Page, Tom Hopper, Robert Theon and others. The story is set in 1989, when 43 unrelated women around the world give birth without signs of pregnancy, 6 of whom have superpowers and 1 child without superpowers are adopted by a rich man, Hargreaves, and gathered at the "Umbrella Academy" to educate them in the hope that they can save the world, but after the family split, they also went their separate ways. Twenty years later, they are reunited by the mysterious death of Hargreaves, but their relationship is not harmonious, and a crisis is about to come.
Stills from "The Umbrella Academy". Image from the web
In the comics, the founder of the Umbrella Academy comes from an alien planet. And in the House of Superpowers there is an ordinary girl, Vanya, played by Ellen Page. She is an outlier in the family, cowardly, insecure, like an outsider, just trying to find her true place. Ellen Page has appeared in Juno, X-Men, Inception and many other films.
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