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It’s time to prepare for extra Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Disney+ introduced at Comic-Com: International in San Diego that manufacturing on season two of the sequence will start subsequent week. The streaming service renewed the fantasy series in February.
Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri star within the action-adventure sequence primarily based on the fantasy novels by Rick Riordan. Daniel Diemer (above, left) has joined the solid as a younger cyclops who will be part of Percy (Scobell, above proper) throughout season two.
Disney+ revealed extra concerning the return of the sequence in a press launch.
Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” relies on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling ebook sequence titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning writer Rick Riordan. In the brand new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one 12 months later to seek out his world turned the wrong way up. His friendship with Annabeth is altering, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone lacking, and camp is beneath siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set issues proper will take him off the map and into the lethal Sea of Monsters, the place a secret destiny awaits the son of Poseidon.
Diemer stars as Tyson – a younger Cyclops who grew up on their lonesome on the streets, and finds it troublesome to outlive within the human world. Shy and awkward, with a coronary heart nearly as huge as he’s, Tyson quickly discovers that Poseidon is his father, which suggests Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson could have lastly discovered a house.
Diemer just lately starred within the Hulu restricted sequence “Under the Bridge” primarily based off the critically acclaimed ebook of the identical identify and a tragic true story of a lacking teen woman in Vancouver in 1997. He will subsequent star within the indie “Thug” reverse Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was just lately seen because the lead within the indie “Supercell” reverse Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead within the movie “Little Brother” reverse Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel will also be seen within the Netflix sequence “The Midnight Club” and just lately starred because the male lead within the breakout hit Netflix characteristic “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.
Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is govt produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.
The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is out there on Disney+.
The premiere date for season two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians shall be introduced later.
What do you think? Have you adopted this Disney+ sequence? Are you excited to see season two?
