Disney Shares The First Details Of Its Upcoming Percy Jackson Series
Demigods rejoice! Disney announced today that a Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series is coming to Disney+, with books author Rick Riordan executive producing and co-writing the pilot script. In the announcement, Disney promised this new adaptation will be “closely aligned with” the beloved children’s adventure book series.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians follows the coming of age journey of Percy, a boy with ADHD and dyslexia who doesn’t understand why he is always at the center of trouble, whether at school or at home with his doting mother and horrible stepfather. After a disturbing incident on a field trip gets him kicked out of yet another school, Percy discovers he is a demigod and his learning disabilities are actually divine powers that make him a more capable fighter and fluent in Ancient Greek. His father, until now totally absent from Percy’s life, is an Olympian Greek God, who resides with the rest of the ancient pantheon in a secret abode above the Empire State Building.
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For his own safety, Percy has to go live at Camp Half-Blood, a magical summer camp for other demigod children where they can learn to fight monsters and harness their godly powers in the relative seclusion of eastern Long Island, New York. Across five books and several spin-off series, readers follow wise-cracking Percy and his friends on quests all over a United States where myth and legend linger just beneath the surface, killing monsters and saving the gods while falling in love and suffering the indignities of puberty.
The series will be produced by 20th Century Studios, known as 20th Century Fox before Disney acquired it. 20th Century was also behind the
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