The celebs of Disney+’s fantasy adaptation sequence Percy Jackson and the Olympians have been the opening act for Corridor H bonanza at San Diego Comedian-Con on Thursday (July 24). The solid — together with Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase), Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood), Charlie Bushnell (Luke Castellan), Dior Goodjohn (Clarisse La Rue), and Daniel Diemer (Tyson) — alongside government producers Jonathan E. Steinberg, Dan Shotz, and Craig Silverstein have been readily available for the panel, which was moderated by Timothy Simons (Tantalus) and revealed many new particulars about what’s forward in Season 2.
Shotz detailed the plot overview for Season 2, revealing it’ll comply with the query on the heart of the second novel in Rick Riordan‘s sequence, The Sea of Monsters. “Issues have been lastly beginning to go okay for Percy. He lastly made some mates. He discovered the secure place the place he felt he belonged Camp Half Blood…. and now we’re gonna flip all the things on its head. In Season 2, his finest buddy’s captured. His camp is below menace. It’s run by some jerk and being attacked by waves of monsters. And so Percy has to got down to set issues proper, and meaning a quest to search out the Golden Fleece, which is a legendary artifact that may heal something or anybody, and he wants to make use of it to revive the protecting barrier that surrounds camp. And so Season 2 is about Percy attempting to carry all of his life collectively because it’s breaking and altering. It’s your typical center faculty expertise.”
Steinberg then added, “I feel Season 1, an enormous a part of the story was the way you couldn’t inform what was actual and what was part of this magical world. … It was an American Highway Journey, actually. [In Season 2], you’re within the fantasy, in a world that’s all magic in each path, which is each, I feel, a problem in a bunch of instructions, but in addition actually thrilling.”
Then, Silverstein rounded out the chief producers’ overview portion of the panel so as to add, “Season 2 is epic. It’s so big, what we have been capable of construct. We’re on the Sea of Monsters journey. So we’re out at sea. We’re on 175-foot iron clad ship. We’re on cruise ships. We’re in chariot races. We’re preventing unimaginable monsters like Scylla and Charybdis, the Laestrygonians. It’s so large, and we can not look forward to you guys to see what we did.”
The panel then turned to the lead trio, asking how issues have modified for them after settling into their roles with the primary season, and Scobell admitted there will likely be some apparent modifications to their bodily look, because the actors have matured within the low season.
“I imply, some slight bodily modifications, however I don’t suppose any of them are seen,” Scobell joked. He then talked in regards to the immersive nature of the filming expertise, because the manufacturing design turned far more elaborate with the altering locales.
“We had been to Camp Half Blood earlier than. We constructed that. However like Dan was speaking about, these chariot races, and we constructed extra cabins, and all of those loopy set items, they have been actual. We have been really on the planet this time. I may bodily contact a few of these issues. It was insane.”
Goodjohn additionally gave audiences a way of what to anticipate when the function of Clarisse is expanded in Season 2, saying, “I like stunts. It’s my favourite issues to do as a result of it’s similar to dancing — however one in all my favourite fights I’ve ever needed to do was this season as a result of, and I’m not going to say an excessive amount of, however there’s a little bit scenario the place I’m strolling off of a ship by way of the water and there’s fog behind me, and I felt like the good particular person… and I received to beat Walker, in order that was actually wonderful.”
For Scobell, the spotlight of filming Season 2 was a funnier one. “My favourite second was, after we have been on the iron clad [ship], and we’d simply come again from the Scylla filming, and it was loads… your entire crew principally stayed up. They form of realized that one in all our ADs is a extremely good singer, and it received again,” he remembered, saying that he later urged the Titanic theme. “In the course of our scene… he stops us, and goes, ‘Walker, Daniel, assume Titanic place.’ Clearly, I seize Daniel, I get behind him, he places his arms out, and [he] will get on the mic and begins singing, ‘My Coronary heart Will Go On.’”
A significant speaking level for all members of the solid, particularly Simhadri, was the upcoming wedding ceremony gown scene with Grover, however the viewers appeared most affected by the primary sighting of the Percy’s one-eyed brother Tyson, which was met with thunderous applause from the packed corridor of followers on the tail finish of Season 2’s teaser.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Season 2 Premiere, Wednesday, December 10, Disney+