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The Umbrella Academy Showrunner Posts Let's Make a Deal-Like S03 Tease

So earlier this month, the long drought (okay, that's a bit dramatic) we've been suffering through (see?) came to an end with the news that Netflix's adaptation of Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba's The Umbrella Academy would be returning for its third season on Wednesday, June 22. And with that news came a mini-teaser & preview images highlighting the start of an Umbrella/Sparrow academy-on-academy smackdown along with an overview of the new season. But now that the excitement has settled down, we're focusing on remaining patient over the next three months… which would be a whole lot easier if writer, showrunner & executive producer Steve Blackman wasn't dropping knife-twisting teaser images to get our dumpster fires of speculation roaring. And that's exactly what we got earlier today…

"Don't you want to know what's behind the curtain? Season 3 airs in 90 days!!!" Blackman wrote as the caption to an Instagram post showing off a look at a very large green screen area with one spot in particular curtained off. Oh, and yes. We would definitely like to know what was going on behind that curtain. So feel free to DM Bleeding Cool all of the spoilers you would like, Blackman:

Now here's a look back at the original date announcement teaser that was released earlier this month, along with the official season overview for Netflix's The Umbrella Academy:

After putting a stop to 1963's doomsday, the Umbrella Academy return home to the present, convinced they prevented the initial apocalypse and fixed this godforsaken timeline once and for all. But after a brief moment of celebration, they realize things aren't exactly (okay, not at all) how they left them. Enter the Sparrow Academy. Smart, stylish, and about as warm as a sea of icebergs, the Sparrows immediately clash with the Umbrellas in a violent face-off that turns out to be the least of everyone's concerns. Navigating challenges, losses, and surprises of their own – and dealing with an unidentified destructive entity wreaking havoc in the Universe (something they may have caused) — now all they need to do is convince Dad's new and possibly better family to help them put right what their arrival made wrong. Will they find a way back to their pre-apocalyptic lives? Or is this new world about to reveal more than just a hiccup in the timeline?

The Umbrella Academy stars Elliot Page as Vanya aka The White Violin aka Number Seven, Tom Hopper as Luther aka Spaceboy aka Number One, David Castañeda as Diego aka The Kraken aka Number Two, Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison aka The Rumor aka Number Three, Robert Sheehan as Klaus aka The Séance aka Number Four, Aidan Gallagher as Five aka The Boy, Justin H. Min as Ben aka The Horror aka Number Six/Ben aka Sparrow Number 2, Colm Feore as Sir Reginald Hargreeves, and Ritu Arya as Lila. And speaking of the Sparrow Academy, we also have Justin Cornwell as Marcus aka Number One, Britne Oldford as Fei aka Number Three, Jake Epstein as Alphonso aka Number Four, Genesis Rodriguez as Sloane aka Number Five, Cazzie David as Jayme aka Number Six, and Existential Dread Inducing Psykronium Cube as Christopher aka Number Seven. In addition, Javon Walton (Euphoria, Utopia) has joined the cast in an undisclosed role.

Created by showrunner & executive producer Blackman and produced by UCP (a division of Universal Studio Group) for Netflix, The Umbrella Academy is also executive produced by Jeff F. King, Keith Goldberg, Mike Richardson & Jeremy Webb, with Way & Ba co-executive producing and Steve Wakefield producing.

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