The Percy Jackson motion pictures ended after the Sea of Monsters sequel due to poor reception and field workplace efficiency. Now, the third guide within the collection is lastly getting tailored for the display screen 18 years after it was printed in 2007. Disney+‘s Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV collection started filming its Titan’s Curse adaptation on August 8. Creator Rick Riordan tells TV Insider the way it feels to lastly see this guide come to life earlier than his eyes. Aryan Simhadri additionally tells us the way it feels to be on set for Season 3.
Riordan is deeply concerned within the creation of Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+. He wasn’t concerned within the manufacturing of the 2 movies in any respect, and he famously by no means watched them after studying the script for the primary film, The Lightning Thief. On the present, he’s credited as collection co-creator, government producer, and author, and he’s on set for the third season because it movies in Vancouver.
The writer, a former center faculty trainer, shares his response to seeing Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3 being filmed, plus a touch at one of many first guide scenes being delivered to life. E book followers, you could be delighted by this one, because it hints at a key second from the start of the story that lays the muse for the Percy (Walker Scobell) and Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) romance to return down the road.
“It’s unbelievable, truthfully. I didn’t assume we might ever get so far,” Riordan tells TV Insider of watching Titan’s Curse be made. “I retired from educating 20 years in the past and thought I used to be performed chaperoning faculty dances, however one of many first scenes we’re filming is a dance in an precise faculty gymnasium, so I assume I’m again on obligation!”
How does Simhadri really feel to be on set of the first-ever adaptation of this guide? “Oh my God, unimaginable,” the Grover Underwood actor tells TV Insider. “It’s all I’ve been wanting to speak about, truthfully. Throughout Season 2 press, all I need to speak about is Season 3, however it’s simply because I like the season a lot.”
“I like the guide. It was the one I learn essentially the most after I was a child,” Simhadri goes on, “as a result of it was the one guide I had of the collection, like personally owned a bodily copy of, for a very long time. So I might simply sit in my room and reread it a bunch, and I ended up getting sick of it. After which after I needed to reread it for the season, I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, I liked this guide.’ And nonetheless do. Actually, it’s nonetheless certainly one of my favourite books within the collection, so I’m very grateful that we obtained to return again for Season 3. Hopefully two extra!” (There are 5 books within the unique franchise.)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 comes out in December on Disney+. Whereas the solid was busy selling Season 2 at San Diego Comedian-Con in July, they nonetheless obtained to share some Season 3 teases, such because the castings for fan-favorite guide characters Nico and Bianca Di Angelo.
Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie will make their debuts as the kids of Hades in Season 3. Dafne Eager and Saara Chaudry‘s castings as Artemis and Zoë Nightshade have been introduced on August 21.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Season 2 Premiere, Wednesday, December 10, Disney+