Maintain on to your lightning bolts! The Percy Jackson and the Olympians guide collection is formally being tailored right into a tv present for Disney+.
Stories of a attainable tv adaptation — primarily based on the fantasy novels by Rick Riordan — first began swirling in Might 2020. On the time, Riordan and his spouse, Becky Riordan, appeared to substantiate 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 writer wrote, partially, alongside the 18-second clip. “A few of you’ve even recommended it will be a great collection for Disney+. We couldn’t agree extra!”
The five-book collection — which was printed 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 collection 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.
Over time, the movie diversifications have been extensively criticized by followers of the unique guide collection and Riordan himself.
“I nonetheless haven’t seen the flicks, and don’t plan on ever doing so,” the writer wrote in a since-deleted Twitter put up from June 2020, per Leisure Weekly. “I decide them from having learn the scripts, as a result of I care most in regards to the story. I definitely don’t have anything towards the very proficient actors. Not their fault. I’m simply sorry they obtained dragged into that mess.”
So, when the chance for a Percy Jackson TV collection 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 might[n’t] care much less about TV and movie, actually. However that’s not true of my followers. They actually needed new diversifications, and so they felt bitterly upset by the flicks,” he informed The Guardian in October 2020, noting that he and his spouse “owed it to the followers to attempt yet 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 Might 2020 alongside an article in regards to the present. “Hope it will get the difference the books deserve.”
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