‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Casts the Daughter of Ares as well as Son of Hermes

The collection has also cast Percy’s classmate Nancy Bobofit.

Dior Goodjohn, Olivea Morton, as well as Charlie Bushnell have actually joined the actors of Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians as Clarisse La Rue, Nancy Bobofit, and Luke Castellan, specifically. According to Variety’s exclusive report, Virginia Kull, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Megan Mullally, and Timm Sharp will certainly additionally appear as repeating guests.

In the books, Percy meets both Clarisse and Luke at the demigod haven Camp Half Blood. Nancy Bobofit, on the other hand, is a mortal girl who participates in Percy’s center college.

Goodjohn has been most just recently seen in the HBO Max remake of Head of the Class. The series will be Bushnell’s second tv duty, as he was formerly a collection routine on Disney+’s Diary of a Future President, while Percy Jackson as well as the Olympians marks Morton’s first substantial television function.

Centered around the Rick Riordan-penned young person publication collection– which additionally got a silver screen adaptation in 2010 and also 2013– the upcoming program tells the imaginary tale of the titular 12-year-old modern-day demigod (Scobell), who is just beginning to welcome his newly found superhuman capabilities when the sky divine being Zeus implicates him of swiping his master lightning bolt. Percy needs to start an impressive trip with his pals Grover (Simhadri) as well as Annabeth (Jeffries) to situate it and also restore order to Olympus.

The Percy Jackson cosmos is formally expanding, much to the delight of fans. The new collection is targeted at a wide audience, including tweens, teenagers, and young people. The first season will take motivation from The Lightning Thief publication, accompanied by eight episodes.

The program’s production is now starting in Vancouver. Riordan and Jon Steinberg are writing the pilot, which will be guided by James Bobin. Steinberg as well as his creating companion Dan Shotz are executive producers on the show, in addition to Bobin, Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, Anders Engström, Jet Wilkinson, Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, as well as D.J. Goldberg.