If Percy Jackson sounds familiar to you without ever having read the books, that’s because a pre-Disney 20th Century Fox tried adapting the franchise. That didn’t last long—the two films starring Logan Lerman did decently at the box office, but Fox never got around to doing a third installment. (From the sound of things, the films fizzing out was to everyone’s benefit.) Once Disney snatched up Fox in 2019, they announced their plans to do a TV show the following year. Unlike with the films, Riordan is notably pretty involved with the show.
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Along with Scobell, Jeffries, and Simhadri, the show’s cast includes Jason Mantzoukas, Glynn Turman, and Virginia Kull. Since the show only recently started filming, Percy Jackson & the Olympians has a tentative release date of “soon.”
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