Spoiler warning: the next article accommodates particulars from all through the second season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy.

• Netflix has formally renewed The Umbrella Academy for a 3rd season.
• Season 3 will start manufacturing in February 2021, and the present has simply introduced an assortment of latest solid members.
• Previously, author Gerard Approach has given showrunner Steve Blackman an in depth doc outlining the story’s future—which fits far past Season 2.

The tip of the primary season of The Umbrella Academy, fairly actually, went out with a bang, and the present’s second season picked up from that precise second. From there, we noticed a complete lot of time journey, plenty of motion, plenty of laughs, a villain who was a fish in a tank with a human physique, and a few actually cool and stylistic scenes with even higher performing to associate with it. Briefly? Umbrella Academy Season 2 was a rattling good time. So now we ask the plain query—when’s season 3?

And that query is an efficient one which we now have the beginnings of a solution to. Netflix has formally renewed The Umbrella Academy for Season 3, detailing within the course of that manufacturing will begin up in February 2021. It is nice to have the information grow to be official, however given the present’s huge fanbase, and elevated vital success (the present’s second season has a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, up from the primary season’s 75%), it was very, very troublesome to think about the present not returning for an additional season.

Because the present’s Season 2 cliffhanger left issues, our heroes are in some kind of alternate dimension, the place The Umbrella Academy is as a substitute changed by one thing referred to as The Sparrow Academy. We have been already guessing that was the place Season 3 would instantly pick-up, and with Netflix asserting the casting of the Umbrella Academy’s Sparrow Academy counterparts, that looks like a protected guess.

There have additionally been some tea leaves telling us that Netflix and everybody behind the present have large plans in thoughts. Again in 2019, Gerard Approach—who not solely is the frontman of My Chemical Romance, but in addition the first author of The Umbrella Academy comics—advised Collider that he gave showrunner Steve Blackman an 18-page doc outlining his total plan for The Umbrella Academy comics, which he plans to ultimately complete 8 volumes (three have been launched thus far, the latest having come out final fall).

Moreover, actor David Castañeda, who performs Diego, advised Males’s Well being that he knew Blackman is already engaged on a 3rd season, however was conserving his concepts principally personal. “There’s been some notes, some concepts thrown backwards and forwards if we get the chance to go ahead,” he mentioned. “However Steve form of retains all that stuff actually near his chest till we get a tough affirmation.”

This is what extra we all know in regards to the forthcoming third Umbrella Academy season.

Manufacturing is properly underway.

Again in April, Tom Hopper (who performs Luther) advised Collider about how a few of the mid-Covid-19 manufacturing of The Umbrella Academy could be going.

“Properly, the COVID protocols imply that now we have shorter days, which implies that the precise size of the shoot goes to be lots longer,” he mentioned, earlier than actually hyping up the precise content material of the forthcoming Season 3. “However yeah, we’re actually close to the start. We’re not that far into it for the time being, so we have a protracted method to go, nevertheless it’s good. The nice factor is the fabric, the work is superb, so day by day on set is, like I say, a pleasure and a lot enjoyable.”

He additionally added that the additional time main as much as getting into manufacturing amounted to further time to refine the episode scripts and make them even that a lot stronger. “The scripts are so nice, season three, it is actually such a pleasure to be doing it,” he mentioned. “I really feel very privileged to be part of this present. And I feel the most effective factor actually is that we’re all so snug with one another now.”

Solid members additionally share updates on their private Instagram accounts. Elliot Web page, who performs Vanya, shared an replace when manufacturing first started on his web page, which included a take a look at the Season 3 emblem for the present—which now features a sparrow sitting atop the Umbrella.