After two unconvincing films, Percy Jackson is back soon, but this time on the small screen. Two years ago, Disney had indeed announced that it was preparing a series on the famous saga of Rick Riordan. Something to delight fans who can’t wait to find the young demigods in new epic adventures.
Well good news, because the filming of the future series Disney + progress well. Everything would even go very well if we believe the information reported by Screen Rant. We tell you everything!
We are already halfway through Book 1!
Much like the first Percy Jackson film, the series Disney + will adapt the first book of the literary saga: The Lightning Thief. We will therefore meet the young Percy at the age of twelve and who discovers his nature as a demigod, but above all a fantastic and hyper dangerous universe for people like him. Filming for the series began last June in the city of Vancouver.
Et it goes fast as announced by Rick Riordan himself on his website. The author is indeed personally involved in the project, he regularly updates the fans on the progress of the filming. He notably assured that the series will be faithful to the book: “How much Percy content have we covered? Put it this way: If you were following the book, we pretty much filmed Chapter Nine of Lightning Thief. That’s a big part of the story, but there’s still plenty of fun and games to come! And yes, the filming followed the story of the book very closely, almost as if the author was involved in it himself! » This is excellent news for fans who are apprehensive about this new adaptation of their favorite saga.
A promising new adaptation
For his series Percy Jackson, Disney has decided to put the odds on its side: and what better than to involve the author of the books himself in the project? Rick Riordan is thus attached to the project as screenwriter and executive producer! And the least we can say is that the latter is really thorough as evidenced by the information he regularly shares on his site.
It’s not yet clear when exactly the series will be available on Disney+, but fans are all hoping to reunite with Percy, Annabeth and Grover as soon as next year. The young heroes will be played respectively by Walker Scobell (The Adam Project), Leah Sava Jeffries (Beast) and Aryan Simhadri (Cheaper By the Dozen). Can’t wait for 2024 to find out what it’s going to give!