Gerard Way's comic to become a film?

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way's comic book The Umbrella Academy may be turned into a film.

Way told SFX that studio Universal has picked up the series for Alfonso Cuaron (The Prisoner Of Azkaban) to direct.

"He's the only director who has the material at the moment," he revealed. "If we get the right people in place, it could be really amazing but I'm trying not to think about it too much. I'm keeping my head focused on the comics.

"I would prefer people to read the comic first as a point of reference before any film comes out. But the first story (The Apocalypse Suite) is really compact with a beginning, a middle and an end so you could easily make that into a film."

The six-part Umbrella Academy series revolves around a disbanded group of superheroes who come together following the death of their adoptive father.

A follow-up series titled Dallas, centring on the assassination of President Kennedy, will be released next month.

He said: "It deals with some pretty harsh subjects in American history. It's more relevant than the first series, which was a traditional story about being brought up good or bad."