Percy Jackson’s First Look Teases the Half-Blood’s Heroic Journey

There’ve been numerous youngsters books which were introduced to be getting their very own TV variations, however few are fairly so anticipated as Disney’s upcoming Percy Jackson collection. Based on Rick Riordan’s five-book collection that later turned a whole media franchise known as Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, the present forged its three leads—Walker Scobell as Percy, Aryan Simhadri as Grover, and Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase—earlier this summer season. While the present remains to be a methods off, the three youngsters confirmed up D23 with a teaser in hand.

In the books, Percy is a Half-Blood, the kid of a human and Greek god—on this case, Poseidon. The teaser offers a quick take a look at the summer season camp the place he and different demigods (like Annabeth, whose mom is Athena) practice their rising powers. But being the child of a god places a goal in your again: Percy’s personal existence violates an outdated oath made between Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. The first of what’s hoped to be many seasons will likely be adapting The Lightning Thief, the unique novel that first launched in 2005.

If Percy Jackson sounds acquainted to you with out ever having learn the books, that’s as a result of a pre-Disney twentieth Century Fox tried adapting the franchise. That didn’t final lengthy—the 2 movies starring Logan Lerman did decently on the field workplace, however Fox by no means obtained round to doing a 3rd installment. (From the sound of issues, the movies fizzing out was to everybody’s profit.) Once Disney snatched up Fox in 2019, they introduced their plans to do a TV present the next yr. Unlike with the movies, Riordan is notably fairly concerned with the present.

Along with Scobell, Jeffries, and Simhadri, the present’s forged contains Jason Mantzoukas, Glynn Turman, and Virginia Kull. Since the present solely lately began filming, Percy Jackson & the Olympians has a tentative launch date of “soon.”

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