Popcorn in the Pages - Episode 7: The Umbrella Academy
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, readers. We are so excited to continue this new content from the creators of Currently Reading Podcast! This spin-off podcast series will tackle book to screen adaptations in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you’ve read the book and watched the film version before listening to the episode, because we don’t shy away from strong opinions OR from all the spoilers, unlike our regular episodes.
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The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabrielle Ba
2:29 - Previews
Book Name and release date. Sales info and awards.
The Umbrella Academy - Vol 1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way
Movie name and release date. Box office and awards.
The Umbrella Academy on Netflix
10:16 - The Cutting Room
Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen
Pregnancy/birth scenes
Vanya turning into the White Violin
Transition into superheroism
Vanya getting upset enough to play with the orchestra
Changes from Book to Movie
Time of birth of the kids
Five’s disappearance and reappearance
Fleshing out of characters
Diversity of the cast
Hazel and Cha-Cha are moved up from later volumes
Saving of Earth at the end
Left out of the adaptation
Carnival Fire and Dr. Terminal
Why Ben is dead
Why Diego is called the Kraken
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Wolfsong by TJ Klune
Added to the movie
Hazel and Cha-Cha
Detective Patch
Leonard Peabody/Harold Jenkins
The Handler
The Day that Wasn’t/The Day that Was
Klaus’ journey into the past (Vietnam)
Suspicion around Hargreeves’ death
The sibling relationship
General Thoughts
Cinematography
Elliot Page being credited correctly
Dr. Terminal and Eiffel Tower being included
Bad guys can’t shoot good guys: Stormtrooper Effect
Bowling alleys are slippery
Actors can’t play violin
Problematic elements
Nothing of note
Casting and mis-casting
Visual representation of characters
Reginald Hargreeves: Colm Feore → Jeff Goldblum
Number 1/Luther: Tom Hopper → Alan Richson
Number 2/Diego: David Cataneda → Josh Cigara
Number 3/Allison: Emme Raver-Lampman → Zoe Kravitz
Number 4/Klaus: Robert Sheehan → Nicholas Holt
Number 5/Five: Aiden Gallagher → Mike from Stranger Things
Number 6/Ben: Justin H Min → Simu Liu
Number 7/Vanya: Elliot Page → Emme Rossum, but really no one
Pogo: Adam Godley
44:06 - Award Season
Worst and best parts of the adaptation.
The adaptation is so dark in the filming of it
All the things
Soundtrack
Sense of humor
Worst and best actors.
Leonard Peabody
Agnes, the Waitress
Klaus
Worst and best book characters.
Diego
Hargreeves
Vanya
53:33 - Book/Flick Energy
Book scored on a 5 star scale.
Series scored on a 10 point scale.
58:09 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel
Would you use your superpowers on your kids?
How do you think the world will end?
1:02:29 - End Credits
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Available on Paramount +
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hi readers, welcome to popcorn in the pages. In this spin-off episode series from Currently Reading |
| 0:21.9 | Podcast, we will be exploring book-to-screen adaptations |
| 0:25.1 | and what makes them great or awful. |
| 0:27.4 | In each episode, we tackle the book, the adaptation, and the ways they complement each other. |
| 0:32.1 | And as always, we love and have strong opinions. |
| 0:35.0 | I am Katie Com, co-host of the currently reading podcast and I will read nearly anything |
| 0:40.0 | but mostly keep my screen watching to sitcoms and book adaptations. |
| 0:43.4 | And I am Shad Gascony, and I read exactly what Katie tells me too, |
| 0:47.2 | but I will watch just about anything, |
| 0:49.0 | and I love to just knock out a series. |
| 0:51.4 | Which is good, because that's what we have today. |
| 0:53.0 | Oh my word. |
| 0:55.0 | Unlike our regular episodes, these ones are full of spoilers. |
| 0:58.0 | We are going to be spilling all the tea, spoiling all the plot points, so buckle in if you've not read it yet. This is |
| 1:04.1 | episode number seven of the series but you can listen to them in any order. |
| 1:08.0 | Seven Katie we've done seven. That is more than a year's worth., because these are only every two months, |
| 1:14.0 | which means we're 14 months in to this venture of ours. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, look at that. We made it. |
| 1:19.0 | We did. |
| 1:20.0 | Is that the goal? That's what we were... I don what we were I made it to seven I mean I don't know what you're like you could just cancel me at any moment I could but mostly I want to cancel what we decided to do for this episode because we decided to tackle our very first graphic novel and our very first series for the same episode like Embicels. |
| 1:41.8 | Yep, it was well I mean it was, we kind of like, we gave and take, right? |
| 1:45.8 | We gave and took. |
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