The Umbrella Academy season 2: release date, trailer, cast and what we know ~ Ciwani Tech2

The Umbrella Academy season 2 release date is almost here, and we're learning more about the unique superhero show all the time. The show returning to Netflix in July, based on the comics by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, follows the dysfunctional Hargreeves children as they reunite to solve the suspicious circumstances of their father's death.

One of lingering questions ahead of The Umbrella Academy season 2 was 'when' precisely the super-powered siblings were left, given that they were teleported off the now-destroyed Moon to an unknown destination and time. Now Netflix has revealed all: with these released new images for the show, we're headed to 1960s Dallas. Scroll down for more on the story of the second season, and how the show will resolve season one's massive cliffhanger.

Here's everything we know about The Umbrella Academy season 2, including its release date, trailer, and cast.

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The Umbrella Academy season 2 release date: July 2020

The Umbrella season 2 release date is July 31, 2020. Here's the extremely unusual filmed-at-home trailer confirming it, referencing a popular dance sequence from season 1:

Check out this character art for The Umbrella Academy season 2, too:

The Umbrella Academy season 2 was confirmed by Netflix in April 2019 and shooting wrapped in November 2019. The post-production of the show has since been worked on remotely.

Are these The Umbrella Academy season 2 episode titles?

Following a leak on the WGA website, we may now have an idea of the episode titles for The Umbrella Academy season 2. Naturally you should look the other way if you want to avoid spoilers, but know that we can only take these with a pinch of salt for now. Regardless, these are the leaked episode titles in no particular order, and the writers who may have worked on them:

743: Bronwyn Garrity, Roberto Askins
A Light Supper: Aeryn Michelle Williams
OGA for OGA: Nikki Schiefelbein
Right Back Where We Started: Steve Blackman
The End of Something: Steve Blackman
The Frankel Footage: Mark Goffman
The Majestic Twelve: Bronwyn Garrity
The Seven Stages: Mark Goffman, Jesse McKeown
The Swedish Job: Jesse McKeown
Valhalla: Robert Askins

The Umbrella Academy season 2 story: welcome to 1960s Dallas

The series will pick up directly after the end of season 1, where Number Seven/Vanya (who, unbeknownst to her family, had superpowers all along) blasted a chunk off the Moon – inadvertently causing the destruction of Earth. The teleporting Number Five saved the Hargreeves siblings by transporting them to another time – in the process reverting them to their teenage selves.

Where did they land? Early '60s Dallas, Texas, it's been confirmed. The plot of The Umbrella Academy season 2 will see Number Five trying to reunite the siblings, who arrived separately in the '60s, to take on another world-ending threat.

In June 2020, Netflix released the above new images of where the characters are season at the start of season 2. New characters will be introduced, according to EW, including a housewife called Sissy, a 'chameleon' character called Lila and a leader figure called Raymond. Three Swedish assassins will also pop up in The Umbrella Academy season 2, the report says.

While the TV show made a dramatic change from the comic book storyline because the Hargreeves siblings didn’t save the world apocalypse, the show’s writer’s room is still using Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s graphic novels as a blueprint for the series. That means, there may be some clues in there – for example, we may see Number One/Luther deal with depression, in the wake of revelations about his father’s decision to send him to the Moon for four years.

“The goal is not to diverge [from the graphic novels],” executive producer Steve Blackman told Indiewire. “Not everything translates from the graphic novel page to the screen, but there’s a legion of fans and I want to bring in a whole new legion of fans who’ve never read the graphic novel, so the goal is not to just go off in our own direction.”

And Gerard Way (arguably more famous for his other job as My Chemical Romance’s frontman) is keen that the planned eight-part graphic novel arc he’s writing with Bá should keep setting the agenda – nobody involved wants the show to overtake the source material as Game of Thrones did George RR Martin’s novels.

“The goal for us is to stay ahead of the show,” Way said in the same interview, “and since we’re on series three [of the comics], we are now ahead of the show.”

And in case of emergency, Way and Bá have assembled an 18-page roadmap for Blackman and the rest of the writing team so they know where everything’s going.

Umbrella Academy season 2 cast: who's in the show?

Although they’ll presumably be starting out in their teenage incarnations, the grown-up versions of the Hargreeves siblings are all back in action in season 2.

That means returns for Tom Hopper (Number One/Luther – ability: super strength), David Castañeda (Number Two/Diego – ability: controlling the trajectory of projectiles), Emmy Raver-Lampman (Number Three/Allison – ability: can make people do anything she tells them to), Robert Sheehan (Number Four/Klaus – ability: talks to the dead), Aidan Gallagher (Number Five – ability: teleporting/time travel), Justin H Min (Number Six/Ben – ability: weird tentacle things) and Ellen Page (Number Seven/Vanya – ability: initially nothing, then everything).

This Instagram post shows five of them having an on-set family reunion:

Three newcomers to the cast have also been announced – and seeing as they’re all the right sort of age to play 30-somethings, we reckon they could be members of that exclusive club of 43 superpowered sprogs born on October 1, 1989. The official Umbrella Academy Twitter account has this to say about them:

Lila (played by Ritu Arya)

A chameleon who can be as brilliant or as clinically insane as the situation requires.
Unpredictable, mischievous, sarcastic.
Twisted sense of humour.

Raymond (played by Yusuf Gatewood)

Born leader and devoted husband.
Has the smarts, gravitas, and confidence to never have to prove it to anyone.
Has the innate ability to disarm you with a look.

Sissy (played by Marin Ireland)

Fearless, no-nonsense Texas mom.
Married young for all the wrong reasons.
Eager to rediscover what life and love has to offer.

And this is yet to be confirmed officially, but the timeline-hopping storyline means the apocalypse surely won’t have meant the end for time-travelling assassins Cha-Cha (Mary J Blige) and Hazel (Cameron Britton), or their boss The Handler (Kate Walsh).

And somewhere between time travel, flashbacks and Klaus’s ability to talk to the dead, there should be numerous routes back for the deceased Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore), the siblings’ android Mom, Grace (Jordan Claire Robbins), and chimpanzee assistant Pogo (Adam Godley).

Bring on season 2

The end of the Marvel shows on Netflix might be a blessing in disguise. Marvel Studios now controls all live-action versions of its characters, and it's seemingly pushed Netflix to adapt some more unusual superhero fiction. As well as The Umbrella Academy, the streaming service also has adaptations of comics by Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar on the way (which will be a very different proposition).

Being based on a non-Marvel comic clearly didn't hurt The Umbrella Academy's popularity at all. Let's hope we see many more seasons of it.

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