‘Percy Jackson & The Olympians’ Lands Official Series Order At Disney+
deadline.comPercy Jackson is officially coming to television.Disney+ has handed a series order to Percy Jackson and the Olympians.It comes from Rick Riordan, who wrote the original book series, which has more than 180M copies, and Jon Steinberg, the co-creator of FX on Hulu’s upcoming series The Old Man.
The pair will write the pilot with James Bobin, director of The Mysterious Benedict Society, directing. The trio will also exec produce.Production is set to start this summer with casting currently underway.Steinberg will oversee the series with his producing partner Dan Shotz.
Steinberg and Shotz serve as executive producers alongside Bobin, Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, the former Touchstone Television President who originally put the project into development, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe and Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, D.J.
Goldberg.It is produced by 20th Television.The series order was announced by Riordan on social media (you can see the video below).Percy Jackson and the Olympians tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson, who’s just coming to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt.
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