My Chemical Romace frontman Gerard Way's first six-issue comic book series, The Umbrella Academy, may be on its way to become a movie. According to blog IESB.net, Dark Horse Entertainment chief Mike Richardson, whose company has published The Umbrella Academy, said in a recent interview at the 34th Annual Saturn Awards that he hoped to get an Umbrella Academy movie in production soon through Dark Horse's new partnership with Universal Studios.
The first set of Umbrella Academy comics have been collected into a new trade paperback, with a limited edition due out this fall. Way's first job when he was in Belleville, NJ high school was working at a local comic book shop. He has majored in illustration and cartooning at the New York School of Visual Arts and also interned at DC Comics.
The singer told MTV.com in 2007 that he's always loved and wanted to write comics, saying, "I think I can say something I can't necessarily say with my music...Comics have been such a big part of me and the band for such a long time, and I just want people to check out comics."
My Chemical Romance's new live CD/DVD, The Black Parade is Dead!, will be released July 1st. The two-hour-plus package is taken from two live shows recorded and filmed last October in Mexico City and Hoboken, New Jersey, USA (Frank Sinatra's birthplace)
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