Introducing The Umbrella Academy Season 2 | Behind The Scenes

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🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Starting July 29th, host Brandon Jenkins takes you back in time with the cast and crew of The Umbrella Academy, Season 2. Over five episodes, find out how this superhero family went from graphic novel to hit TV series, how it went from modern day to a period piece, and how the team worked through a global pandemic to bring you this show. Make sure to watch the series in its entirety, and then come back to hear how the writers, art department, stunt supervisor, and so many more brought you the world of The Umbrella Academy.

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0:00.0	The concept of a band is a dysfunctional family, especially early days when you're a baby band, you know, you're in this van and it's like a submarine.
0:09.5	This dynamic starts to develop between all the members and you really do kind of become a dysfunctional family.
0:15.6	Gerard Way knows a thing or two about being in a band.
0:18.6	He's an international rock star, the frontman to the alt rock sensation, my chemical romance.
0:24.9	But Gerard's first love wasn't music.
0:27.2	It was comics.
0:28.2	I went to art school and I was an illustration cartooning major so comics were kind of like my major.
0:35.3	At the height of the band's success while touring for the album Welcome to the Black Parade
0:40.1	Gerard was inspired to create the characters that would be the heart of the award-winning
0:44.7	graphic novel, The Umbrella Academy.
0:48.6	This is behind the scenes, and I'm your host Brandon Jenkins.
0:52.1	In this podcast, we've brought you into the upside down of stranger things
0:55.3	and explored the realm of the Witcher. And now we're traveling back in time with the cast and
1:00.2	crew of the Umbrella Academy, season two.
1:03.0	We'll talk with showrunner Steve Blackman
1:05.0	about how he took Gerard's vision from the comics to television.
1:08.0	Well, what I liked about it from the beginning was
1:11.0	what I saw in the subject matter and I saw a dysfunctional family
1:14.7	but but right away I was very inspired by you know Wes Anderson's work and will
1:19.9	examine the relationships of the Academy and the people who love them.
1:23.5	They know each other's weaknesses.
1:26.5	They're all angry at each other all the time.
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