Anyone familiar with Gerard Way's band My Chemical Romance and their proclivity for the concept album (see: 2006's The Black Parade) knows the guys are suckers for a theme.

My Chemical Romance has always been fond of a good extended metaphor-cum-musical theme. But for their follow-up to 2006's Welcome to the Black Parade, the band is looking to achieve something different.

Here's what the movie based on Gerard Way's comic The Umbrella Academy won't look like: A coming-of-age story about wizards who attend a decidedly dark British boarding school. "I don't want it to be Harry Potter," he told the Los Angeles Times of his forthcoming film.

If you've read enough comic books, the opening scene from The Umbrella Academy's first issue doesn't seem all that unusual: A tank-size pro wrestler wallops an interterrestrial squid with an atomic elbow, which then causes 43 women around the world to spontaneously give birth to superhero babies.