Disney + announced on Thursday (2) the start of filming on “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” a new streaming series based on the works of Rick Riordan. Also directed by the author, there are high expectations under the new show, which is sure to be very faithful to the books – this is what fans expect.
Riordan also wanted to speak and, posting a photo of the director’s chair, joked: “Excuse me, is anyone sitting here?”. The Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series has a total of five books and has been on the New York Times bestseller list since the first book was published in 2005.
According to information from collider, the first season will be inspired by the book The Lightning Thief and will have eight episodes. Live main character will be Walker Sobell, who made his screen debut with Ryan Reynolds in Netflix’s “Project Adam”. Alongside him, Aryan Simhadri and Leah Sava Jeffries complete the famous trio of demigods. New names have also been announced in the adult cast, including Virginia Kull, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Megan Mullally, and Timm Sharp.
At the moment, no release date has been set for “Percy Jackson and the Olympians”. Check out the series synopsis below.
“The live-action series tells the fantastic story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson, who is starting to reckon with his new supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his lightning master. Now Percy must travel across America to find him and restore order to Olympus.
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