Saturday, October 6, 2018

"The Umbrella Academy" On Netflix



From TorontoFilm.Net, take a look at new character posters, revealing more of the live-action adaptation of Dark Horse Comics' "The Umbrella Academy", following a dysfunctional family of superheroes including 'Spaceboy', 'The Kraken', 'The Rumor', 'The Séance', 'Number Five', 'The Horror, and 'The White Violin', streaming exclusively on Netflix, February 15, 2019:



"...set in 1977, in an alternate history where John F. Kennedy was never assassinated...


"...there is a dysfunctional family of superheroes.


"Origin of the superheroes started at the instant of the finishing blow in a cosmic boxing match...


"...when 43 superpowered infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy.


"'Sir Reginald Hargreeves' aka 'The Monocle', an extraterrestrial disguised as a famous entrepreneur, adopts the surviving seven children...


"...prepping them to save the world from an unspecified threat as the 'Umbrella Academy'..."


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