After years of followers of Rick Riordan’s bestselling Greek mythology books coping with the frustration of there not being extra Percy Jackson films when Hollywood did not adapt the beloved collection, issues circled large time when the brand new Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV present began streaming on Disney+ in 2023. Now, I’m very a lot wanting ahead to Season 2 of Percy Jackson because it’s formally on the 2025 TV schedule. There are such a lot of nice characters from the books set to debut within the collection, and I wish to speak in regards to the thrilling casting.
Certainly one of my favourite issues in regards to the first season was seeing all the superb visitor stars embody characters from the e book, like Lin-Manuel Miranda taking part in Hermes, Jay Duplass’s Hades or Jason Mantzoukas taking part in Dionysus. With Season 2 making The Sea Of Monsters upcoming e book variations, let’s get into eight new characters which might be set to be launched this time round.
Tyson
The second Percy Jackson e book memorably marks the debut of Tyson, Percy’s half-brother and secretly a cyclops. Tyson is a somewhat tragic character as a result of he lived the early years of his life in a fridge cardboard field on the streets of New York. In Sea of Monsters, Percy and Tyson meet at his new college at Meriwether School Prep he attends for seventh grade. Tyson is picked on loads by different youngsters, however Percy at all times sticks up for him. Daniel Diemer, who was wonderful in The Half Of It, is ready to play Tyson, as introduced at 2024’s SDCC panel, and I can’t wait to see their dynamic play out on this season.
Athena
Within the first season of Percy Jackson , he will get to satisfy his well-known and all highly effective father, Poseidon, the Greek god of the ocean. And in Season 2, I’m pumped that Leah Jeffries’ Annabeth can be connecting along with her mom, Athena, the goddess of knowledge. Andra Day, identified finest for her singing and Oscar nomination for enjoying Billie Vacation in 2021, will embody the larger-than-life character from mythology, per Selection. In Season 1, we began getting a way of Annabeth’s relationship to her mom, and I’m so serious about seeing the mom and daughter work together.
Thalia
One of the necessary characters within the Percy Jackson collection is about to be launched as effectively. Resident Evil’s Tamara Good is ready to play stated character, Thalia Grace, per Disney’s announcement. As we realized in Season 1, Thalia is the daughter of Zeus who was a good friend of Annabeth and Grover’s previous to Percy coming into the image. She sacrificed her life to save lots of them each when a horde of monsters attacked them on Half-Blood Hill. However Zeus made positive her soul wouldn’t go to Hades by turning her right into a pine tree, which stands on the location of the battle on Half-Blood Hill. Whereas I received’t get into specifics about how we’ll come to satisfy Thalia, all I’ll say is it’s a giant step for the bigger collection for audiences to satisfy her.
Grey Sisters
Now, right here’s some particularly enjoyable casting. Percy Jackson has assembled three very humorous ladies to carry to life the Grey Sisters to adapt their look in The Sea of Monsters. The Grey Sisters are a trio of previous ladies that share a single eye and tooth. They’re comprised of Anger, Tempest and Wasp. Comedians Margaret Cho, Kristen Schaal and Sandra Bernhard have been forged within the roles, per Deadline, and I simply know they’re going to have me rolling on the ground laughing with nevertheless they resolve to painting the characters from Greek mythology.
Circe
Except for Athena, one other Greek goddess is becoming a member of Percy Jackson Season 2, and it’s a very thrilling one. Circe, who’s the goddess of magic, will pop up within the collection whereas Percy is on his newest journey, per The Hollywood Reporter’s December casting replace. Principally, within the e book Percy and Annabeth need to go to the Bermuda Triangle to discover a place known as The Sea of Monsters as a way to rescue Grover. Whereas there they meet Circe, who owns a spot known as C.C’s Spa and Resort. It’s such a enjoyable retelling of the goddess, and I’m excited to satisfy her this season.
Polyphemus
One other new character we’ll be assembly in Season 2 is Polyphemus, a blind cyclops, one other son of Poseidon, who lives within the Sea of Monsters. Within the second e book, Grover turns into trapped in Polyphemus’s lair in a marriage gown throughout his seek for Pan. The above photograph is from the 2013 film starring Logan Lerman. I’m so how the brand new Polyphemus will look, and it is going to be enjoyable to see the plotline with the cyclops play out.
Tantalus
In Sea of Monsters, Camp Half-Blood has a brand new actions director in Tantalus, changing Chiron when he was suspected of poisoning Thalia’s tree. He’s one other considered one of Zeus’s kids, with an particularly terrifying backstory of as soon as cooking his son right into a stew and serving it to the gods. When Tantalus takes over, it causes all types of issues for Percy and the campers, together with by beginning up chariot racing at Camp Half-Blood and significantly favors Clarisse LaRue. He can be performed by Timothy Simons (most just lately seen in No person Needs This), per Selection.
Alison Simms
The final of latest characters we all know are becoming a member of Percy Jackson Season 2 is a model new one not from the books known as Alison Simms. Alison can be a Camp Half-Blood graduate who “lives within the human world however is a real believer on the planet Kronos is promising.” She’ll apparently be aligned with Luke. Beatrice Kitsos, who has been in quite a lot of horror initiatives like 2019’s Youngster’s Play and 2023’s It Lives Inside has been forged within the function.
There’s definitely quite a lot of new characters to get excited to see in Percy Jackson Season 2. One of the enjoyable issues about Rick Riordan’s collection of books is how he adapts Greek mythology in every journey, and I’m so to see these actors painting these variations of his characters, together with clearly seeing Percy Jackson, Grover and Annabeth go on one other quest. The December premiere can’t come quickly sufficient!