"Family
meeting, Brellies: We're going on a fourth and final adventure."
Netflix has
announced today (25 August) that The Umbrella Academy has
been renewed for a fourth season, which will be the show's last.
The entire
superpowered dysfunctional Hargreeves family is set to return for the
series farewell, which the showrunner and creator promises to be a
"fitting end".
“I’m so excited
that the incredibly loyal fans of The Umbrella Academy will be
able to experience the fitting end to the Hargreeves siblings’ journey we began
five years ago,” creator and showrunner Steve Blackman said to The
Hollywood Reporter.
Blackman
added: “But before we get to that conclusion, we’ve got an amazing story ahead
for season four, one that will have fans on the edge of their seats until the
final minutes.”
Season three
of Umbrella Academy saw the siblings enter an alternate
reality and face off against The Sparrows, a mirrored seven-person team
of super-powered individuals. Also in this most recent season was the
incorporation of Page's transition for his character, Viktor.
Speaking about
rewriting season three to include Viktor's trans identity in June,
Blackman told ET that
he didn't want to "hang a lantern on it and make it the sob story of the
season."
Instead, he
recalls: "We all agreed that we want it to be something that just happened
and let the family react to it. That was the hard balance to find that."
Blackman credits Page, GLAAD
Vice President Nick Adams, and transgender author/journalist Thomas Page McBee
for guiding him to explore "what it means to be trans, how it feels,
and how to tell a story".
Speaking to
Netflix's TUDUM,
Blackman confirmed (spoilers incoming!) that the fact these characters have
been left in an alternative timeline without their powers is just one of
the twists fans can look forward to.
The show’s
season 4 cast set to reprise their roles includes Elliot Page, Tom Hopper,
David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H.
Min, Ritu Arya, and Colm Feore.
In the
interview, Blackman also announces the development of two Netflix
projects: a cinematic adaption of the hit PlayStation game Horizon Zero
Dawn as well as a sci-fi limited series titled Orbital.
Blackman notes
that on the surface the two new shows are very different from each other as
well as The Umbrella Academy – "one takes place a
thousand years in the future, in a world completely remade by massive machines.
The other is set near present-day on a space station," – however, as with
all of his work, they are linked in an exploration of "outliers who
struggle to find their place in a world of conformity and structure."
As Blackman
puts it: "All my stories strive to subvert expectation and find a new way
of looking into the worlds we think we know."
The Umbrella
Academy season 4 does not yet have a release
date. Seasons 1-3 are available to stream now.
SOURCE: ATTITUDE MAG
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