Oh, Right! A Percy Jackson Streaming Series! We Totally Forgot!

The first Percy Jackson e book was launched in 2005. The first Percy Jackson film was launched in 2010. And now, 22 months after information broke of a Percy Jackson streaming present, that’s formally taking place too.

It’s known as Percy Jackson and the Olympians and, as was first reported means again in May 2020, it’s coming to Disney+. Series creator Rick Riordan is writing the pilot with Jon Steinberg (Black Sails) and it’ll be directed by James Bobin, greatest identified for doing the trendy Muppets motion pictures The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted. Steinberg will then choose up duties as presentrunner with Dan Shotz.

Percy Jackson is boy dwelling a traditional life till he finds out he’s a demigod, the son of Poseidon. The sequence then follows Percy as he involves phrases along with his unimaginable talents and discovering an entire new world of gods, monsters, and the like. Like the primary film, which was directed by Home Alone and Harry Potter helmer, Chris Columbus, Percy Jackson and the Olympians will start by adapting the primary e book, The Lightning Thief.

So, that mentioned, there’s no connection to 2010 or 2013 movies (which, it’s value nothing, Riordan haaaaated). It’s simply the sensible and seemingly apparent selection of brand name new Percy Jackson proper from the start And but, we’re nonetheless just a bit shocked that this present took so lengthy to come back to fruition. Obviously, its inception and growth taking place primarily in the course of the covid-19 pandemic didn’t hurry alongside the method a lot. But the wait continues to be a window into the twists, turns, and care an enormous manufacturing like this goes via. You can’t simply take Riordan’s five-e book principal sequence (with 5 dietary supplements) and begin taking pictures. So a lot goes into it to some extent the place, 22 months nearly for the reason that information first broke, the present is lastly on the way in which. And the workforce at Disney appears excited.

“With Rick Riordan, Jon Steinberg, and Dan Shotz leading our creative team, we’re deep into creating a compelling TV series worthy of the heroic mythological characters that millions of Percy Jackson readers know are well-worth caring about,” Ayo Davis, president of Disney Branded Television, mentioned in a press launch. “And we’re eager to invite Disney+ audiences into stories that are true to the blockbuster franchise and full of anticipation, humor, surprise, and mystery.”

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