After spending almost two years in development, the upcoming Percy Jackson and the Olympians Disney+ TV series, based on author Rick Riordan’s best-selling series of novels, has found its lead actor.
Per Variety, the Disney+ series has cast Walker Scobell as the titular character, Percy Jackson. Scobell recently made his feature film debut in the Netflix film The Adam Project – in which he starred alongside Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldaña, Jennifer Garner, and Catherine Keener.
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series is set to follow the journey of the titular 12-year-old demigod (Scobell), who’s just coming to terms with his newfound identity as the son of the Greek god Poseidon when Zeus accuses him of stealing his lightning bolt.
Attention, demigods: @RickRiordan has found his Percy ⚡️ Get ready for Percy Jackson and the Olympians, an Original series coming to #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/pAyLTXVqJS
— Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) April 12, 2022
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— WalkerScobellFanPage (@walker_scobell) April 11, 2022
Rick Riordan and Jon Steinberg (Black Sails) will be writing the pilot episode with James Bobin (Dora and the Lost City of Gold) directing. Steinberg and his producing partner Dan Shotz will be overseeing the project and serve as executive producers alongside Bobin, Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, and Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, D.J. Goldberg. The series will be produced by 20th Century Television.
