Mark Bomback Opens 'Umbrella' Adaptation!
Gerard Way’s (front-man for My Chemical Romance) comic series The Umbrella Academy is being adapted for film and none other than Mark Bomback (Constantine, Race to Witch Mountain) is set to script. The Eisner Award winning Dark Horse Comic will get film treatment from Universal with DH’s Mike Richardson producing.
For the unacquainted, the story revolves around ‘The Umbrella Academy, a group of superheroes who reunite after the death of their adoptive father, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, an alien disguised as a wealthy entrepreneur who collected the members of the group shortly after their birth and trained them to save the world'. Apparently after Hargreeves death, the heroes must continue his plan, unfolded in the six-issue miniseries released back in 2007. Although a film adaptation of a comic should come as no surprise, we’re left wondering why this particular title was green lit especially after many box-office analysts chock up the rise and fall of Watchmen to the fact that the characters were unknown.
No word on what, if in any capacity Way will be involved.
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