{"id":100122,"date":"2017-11-10T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=100122"},"modified":"2017-11-10T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:06:51","slug":"umbrella-academy-tv-series-casts-ellen-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/umbrella-academy-tv-series-casts-ellen-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Umbrella Academy TV series casts Ellen Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s TV series based on Gerard Way and\u00a0Gabriel B\u00e1&#8217;s comic <strong><em>Umbrella Academy<\/em><\/strong> has found its first star: the excellent Ellen Page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/tv\/news\/umbrella-academy-netflix-ellen-page-1202611409\/\">Variety<\/a> reports that the star of <strong><em>Juno<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Hard Candy, Whip It<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Inception<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will star as Vanya in the show, with the pilot written by <strong><em>The Exorcist&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>s Jeremy Slater. Steve Blackman, who&#8217;s worked on such ace shows as <strong><em>Fargo<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Legion<\/em><\/strong> and Netflix&#8217;s upcoming <strong><em>Altered Carbon<\/em><\/strong>, will be acting as showrunner.<\/p>\n<p>The series &#8220;follows the estranged members of a dysfunctional family of superheroes (The Umbrella Academy) \u2013 Luther, Diego, Allison, Vanya, Klaus and Number Five \u2013 as they work together to solve their father\u2019s mysterious death while coming apart at the seams due to their divergent personalities and abilities.\u00a0Page will play Vanya, the black sheep of her family. She\u2019s the only one of Reginald Hargreeves\u2019 adopted children with no supernatural abilities. A meek and insecure wallflower, Vanya struggles to find her place in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re big fans of Page, and the idea of her starring on a comic book TV series is pretty damn exciting. The last time she was a regular on a TV show was back in 2004 on Canadian SF series <strong><em>ReGenesis<\/em><\/strong>. Which is apropos of nothing, really, we just wanted to remind people about <strong><em>ReGenesis<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s Umbrella Academy finds its first star in the awesome Ellen Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":100123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[5926],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ellen-page.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}