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slashfilm.com - 4/8/2009

Witch Mountain Screenwriter to adapt The Umbrella Academy Movie

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Universal Pictures has hired Race to Witch Mountain scribe Mark Bomback to adapt Dark Horse Comics’ The Umbrella Academy for the big screen. The film is very tentatively aiming for a 2012 release. I wasn’t a big fan of Witch Mountain, but it appears that Bomback might have ...

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variety.com - 4/8/2009

Universal to make 'Academy' film - Entertainment News, Film News, Media

— variety.com — Studio, Dark Horse Comics team on adaptation Universal Pictures is planning to make "Umbrella Academy" the first... project to come out of its three-year production pact with Dark Horse Comics. Mark Bomback, who wrote Disney's "Race to Witch Mountain," ... Universal to make 'Academy' film - Entertainment News, ...

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atomicpopcorn.net - 4/8/2009

Universal Opens Its Umbrella

— atomicpopcorn.net — The next one to come on the slab under comic book adaptations is the Gerard Way written... series, The Umbrella Academy. Universal Studios and Dark Horse are teaming up together to adapt the two year old running series, with the likes of Mark Bomback (Race To Witch Mountain, Live Free or Die Hard) ... Universal Opens Its Umbrella

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hollywoodreporter.com - 4/9/2009

'Constantine' writer adapting 'Umbrella' comic

— hollywoodreporter.com — Mark Bomback is getting out his parasol for "The Umbrella Academy." The scribe has been tapped to... adapt the Dark Horse comic created by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way and set up at Universal. Dark Horse's Mike Richardson is producing. The ... 'Constantine' writer adapting 'Umbrella' comic

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Screenwriter Comes Down ‘Witch Mountain’ And Goes Up ‘The Umbrella Academy’
Film School Rejects — ... Per /Film, Universal has picked up the rights for a film version and has hired screenwriter Mark Bomback to transition the comic from page to screen.  Bomback’s most recent film is Race to Witch Mountain, but lest you hold that against him he also wrote the hideous Godsend with Robert DeNiro and the inane Deception with Ewan McGregor.  His lone bright spot so far is Live Free Or Die Hard with Kevin Smith.  Even though the odds aren’t with him, the material looks pretty promising so I’ll be looking forward to this ...