Maintain on to your lightning bolts! The Percy Jackson and the Olympians guide sequence is formally being tailored right into a tv present for Disney+.
Stories of a potential tv adaptation — primarily based on the fantasy novels by Rick Riordan — first began swirling in Could 2020. On the time, Riordan and his spouse, Becky Riordan, appeared to verify the information in a video uploaded to his web site.
“Hey Percy Jackson followers, for the previous decade, you’ve labored arduous to champion a devoted on-screen adaptation of Percy Jackson’s world,” the creator wrote, partially, alongside the 18-second clip. “A few of you will have even prompt it could be a superb sequence for Disney+. We couldn’t agree extra!”
The five-book sequence — which was revealed between 2005 and 2009 — launched followers to a 12-year-old Demigod named Percy Jackson, who discovers early on that he’s the son of the Greek God Poseidon.
Riordan’s novels had been beforehand tailored right into a two-film sequence starring Logan Lerman because the title character alongside Brandon T. Jackson as Grover Underwood and Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase. The primary film, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, premiered in February 2010 with the second, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, premiering in August 2013.
Through the years, the movie variations have been broadly criticized by followers of the unique guide sequence and Riordan himself.
“I nonetheless haven’t seen the flicks, and don’t plan on ever doing so,” the creator wrote in a since-deleted Twitter publish from June 2020, per Leisure Weekly. “I choose them from having learn the scripts, as a result of I care most concerning the story. I actually don’t have anything in opposition to the very gifted actors. Not their fault. I’m simply sorry they received dragged into that mess.”
So, when the chance for a Percy Jackson TV sequence got here throughout his desk, Riordan was initially very skeptical.
“I’m not a fan of Hollywood, I’ve by no means been starstruck. I may[n’t] care much less about TV and movie, actually. However that’s not true of my followers. They actually wished new variations, and so they felt bitterly disenchanted by the flicks,” he advised The Guardian in October 2020, noting that he and his spouse “owed it to the followers to attempt another time.”
Even Lerman, who performed Percy Jackson within the movies, is on board with the upcoming TV present.
“Excited to see this!” the Perks of Being a Wallflower star wrote on Twitter in Could 2020 alongside an article concerning the present. “Hope it will get the variation the books deserve.”
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