Elliot Web page returns to The Umbrella Academy for the ultimate season. (CHRISTOS KALOHORIDIS/NETFLIX)
The primary trailer for season 4 of Netflix’s adored superhero sequence The Umbrella Academy has landed, and sees Elliot Web page’s Viktor Hargreeves and the remainder of the clan endeavor one final mission.
The trailer, set to the tune of Swedish rock band Europe’s 1986 tune “The Last Countdown,” sees the Hargreeves siblings leaving their common lives to return collectively for the final time to embark on a “rescue mission”.
Within the trailer, Viktor (performed by trans actor Web page), says he and his siblings “drive one another loopy”.
“However when issues go to hell, they’re there for me,” he displays.
The official synopsis for the fourth instalment, as per Netflix, reads: “The Hargreeves siblings have scattered after the climactic showdown on the Lodge Oblivion led to a whole reset of their timeline. Stripped of their powers, every is left to fend for themselves and discover a new regular — with wildly various levels of success.
“But the trimmings of their uncanny new world show too exhausting to disregard for very lengthy. Their father Reginald, alive and effectively, has stepped out of the shadows and into the general public eye, overseeing a robust and nefarious enterprise empire. A mysterious affiliation referred to as The Keepers holds clandestine conferences believing the truth they’re dwelling in is a lie and a terrific reckoning is coming.
“As these unusual new forces conspire round them, the Umbrella Academy should come collectively one final time — and threat upsetting the shaky peace they’ve all endured a lot to safe — to lastly set issues proper,” it concludes.
It’s the primary full-length have a look at the brand new sequence, following a really transient clip which appeared as a part of Netflix’s “Subsequent on Netflix” showcase earlier this yr.
The brief clip confirmed Web page and Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Daybreak star Aidan Gallagher as Viktor and 5 Hargreeves, awe-struck and clapping. Clapping at what, although, stays to be seen.
Whereas the Shut To You actor has remained comparatively tight-lipped on what the sequence will cowl, he has promised that season 4 will probably be “very enjoyable” with “traditional Hargreeves chaos and hijinks”.
Web page has additionally beforehand mentioned that followers can count on “pleasure, surprises, humour, twists, and turns” within the final ever season, whereas Lila Pitts actress Ritu Arya has dubbed it “one of the best season but”.
The Umbrella Academy season 4 would be the present’s ultimate season
Although The Umbrella Academy season 4 plot is centred round their ultimate battle, a number of stunning twists from season three nonetheless want unravelling.
Particularly, on the finish of season three, the superpowered siblings have been stripped of their magical expertise and left deserted on a complete new common timeline.
As Netflix has beforehand described, the brand new season will see the household having to go head-to-head with “new enemies who wish to see them wiped from existence”.
Plus, followers will probably be ready with bated breath to be taught the destiny of Sparrow Academy member Sloane (The Fugitive‘s Genesis Rodriguez).
Sloane acquired misplaced within the new timeline on the finish of season three, which was created by the Hargreeves’ late adoptive father, Reginald (Home of Playing cards star Colm Feore).
Sloane didn’t seem within the very brief “Subsequent on Netflix” teaser clip, leaving followers in the dead of night about whether or not she is going to seem within the new sequence in any respect.
Earlier this yr, Elliot Web page mirrored on the “unimaginable” method The Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman responded to him popping out as a trans man in 2020.
Web page had been a part of the superhero drama for 2 seasons earlier than popping out, and Blackman labored his transition into the present’s storyline for his character Viktor.
“[He was] truly in all probability one of many first folks I got here out to,” Web page defined.
“I used to be supposed to return to shoot the third season and needed to ideally get surgical procedure earlier than. I known as him nervously and he was unimaginable.
“If something, he was the one who was very insistent on me having or not it’s part of the present and supported me to have the ability to entry the care I hoped to get at the moment.”
The Umbrella Academy returns on 8 August on Netflix.