
By September, Anders Engström and Jet Wilkinson were also set to direct multiple episodes of the series. Scobell was cast in the lead role in January 2022, with Jeffries and Simhadri joining the cast in May. Steinberg and Dan Shotz were announced as showrunners in July 2021, with James Bobin hired to direct the first episode in October. Development on the series began by May 2020, following a pitch by Riordan to the Walt Disney Company. Walker Scobell stars as Percy Jackson, alongside Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri. The series is produced by Disney Branded Television, 20th Television, and the Gotham Group. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends - one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.Percy Jackson and the Olympians is an upcoming American fantasy television series for the streaming service Disney+, based on the novel series of the same name by Rick Riordan. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper.

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Percy's fate is intertwined with the fate of the Gods and his father is no ordinary man. Clearly not an ordinary field trip! Very soon Percy learns that his best friend is other-worldly and that his mother has been keeping a very important secret. The pen transforms itself into a sword, and Percy wields it in his own defense. She takes him deep into the galleries to discipline him, and, as she begins her reprimand, Percy watches in disbelief as her eyes become coals, her hands become talons and all in all, she just isn't human anymore.Īt the perfect moment his favorite teacher rolls in in his wheelchair and throws Percy his pen. Now, however, on the 6th grade field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Percy finds himself in trouble with the algebra teacher. Percy has been thrown out of school after school, and he has been hoping that this one would be different.
