New footage from Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 is featured in Disney+‘s teaser for its 2025 programming slate. Within the video above, Percy (Walker Scobell) is seen in two sword fights, one towards Clarisse La Rue (Dior Goodjohn), and in a chariot race at Camp Half-Blood that followers of the books will immediately acknowledge.
The teaser comes just some days after the D23 expo in Brazil, throughout which the collection revealed that singer and Oscar-nominee Andra Day will play the goddess Athena.
Right here’s all the pieces there’s to know to this point about Percy Jackson Season 2, which can be based mostly on Rick Riordan‘s novel Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters.
Who performs Athena in Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2?
Day will play Annabeth’s (Leah Sava Jeffries) mom, Athena, within the second season, set to premiere in 2025. Her casting got here with the primary photograph of the onscreen mom and daughter duo collectively in costume and a video greeting for followers. Day not too long ago starred in Netflix‘s The Deliverance and was nominated for an Oscar for her efficiency as singer Billie Vacation within the 2021 movie The USA vs. Billie Vacation.
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Percy Jackson introduced in September that Tamara Good will play Thalia in Season 2, a serious e-book character who’s talked about in The Lightning Thief however performs an even bigger function in e-book two, Sea of Monsters. Thalia is the demigod daughter of Zeus who made her final stand to guard her buddies on the fringe of Camp Half-Blood. Moderately than let her die, Zeus reworked her right into a tree that anchors the drive area that protects camp. Robust and prickly, with a insurgent/punk sensibility, Thalia is fiercely loyal to her buddies and distrustful of her father’s world.
Good has a particular connection to the late Lance Reddick, who performed Zeus in Season 1. She has already performed Reddick’s onscreen daughter earlier than in Resident Evil, by which she performed younger Jade Wesker reverse Reddick’s Al Wesker. Zeus must be recast within the second season following Reddick’s loss of life in March 2023. Good addressed the poignant connection in a press release when her casting was introduced on September 23.
“I’m so grateful and excited to be becoming a member of the forged of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It’s so near my coronary heart. Lance Reddick and I all the time spoke about working collectively once more, so it’s that rather more particular and essential to me to play his daughter as soon as extra as Thalia, and to maintain his reminiscence alive,” Good stated. “I really feel his presence throughout me and attempt to make him proud on this thrilling journey.”
The 19-year-old actor additionally paid tribute to Reddick on Instagram on September 23 by sharing a photograph of them collectively captioned, “For you.” (See the Percy Jackson group’s feedback about Reddick’s efficiency as Zeus right here.)
Who else is within the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 forged?
Percy Jackson stars Scobell, Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri as Percy, Annabeth, and Grover. Percy’s mother and father, Poseidon and Sally Jackson, are performed by Toby Stephens and Virginia Kull. Further returning costars are Glynn Turman, Goodjohn, Charlie Bushnell, and Jason Mantzoukas, together with newcomer Daniel Diemer as Percy’s cyclops half-brother, Tyson. Wrestling star Adam Copeland (aka Edge) might be again as Ares in Season 2, however that’s not but confirmed.
Further new characters this season are Veep‘s Timothy Simons as Tantalus, a Greek demigod king, in a recurring visitor star function in Season 2, per Selection. Tantalus is a son of Zeus from Riordan’s books (and, after all, Greek mythology) who first seems within the Sea of Monsters e-book. The character description reveals that he’s taking Chiron’s (Turman) job at Camp Half-Blood within the new season. Tantalus is described as “sardonic, manipulative, overtly hostile, and barely in a superb temper… seeing as he’s cursed with everlasting starvation and thirst, however can by no means eat or drink.”
The character description continues: “Tantalus has been launched from imprisonment within the Underworld to turn out to be the interim Actions Director at Camp Half-Blood, having changed Chiron (Glynn Turman) who’s beneath suspicion of getting ties to Kronos.”
Diemer performs Tyson, “a younger Cyclops who grew up on their lonesome on the streets, and finds it tough to outlive within the human world. Shy and awkward, with a coronary heart virtually as huge as he’s, Tyson quickly discovers that Poseidon is his father, which suggests Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson might have lastly discovered a house.”
Kristen Schaal, Margaret Cho, and Sandra Bernhard will play the Grey Sisters, a mythological trio of ladies from Riordan’s books who share one eye and one tooth and function a “taxi agency” in New York Metropolis. Bernhard is Anger, Schaal is Tempest, and Cho is Wasp. Particulars concerning the characters have been shared throughout the D23 panel.
Bernhard’s Anger handles accumulating cab fare from heroes who name upon the taxi service. She impatiently awaits her flip with the shared eye at present being utilized by Tempest. She makes use of it to look on the heroes, see into their futures, and poke enjoyable at elements of their social lives like crushes. Wasp drives the Grey Sisters Taxi and takes the heroes on a hair-raising trip to Camp Half-Blood. She could also be blind more often than not, however she’s seen loads of issues in her time.
What occurred in Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 1?
In Season 1, Percy Jackson is on a harmful quest. Outrunning monsters and outwitting gods, he should journey throughout America to return Zeus’ grasp bolt and cease an all-out conflict. After dropping his mom, Sally (Kull), Percy is sheltered at Camp Half-Blood, a sanctuary for demigod youngsters. He should show himself and confront his origins as soon as he discovers he too is a demigod, and can take off into the perils of pursuing enemies looking for the Underworld. With the assistance of his quest mates Annabeth and Grover, Percy’s journey will lead him nearer to the solutions he seeks: easy methods to match right into a world the place he feels misplaced, if he’ll ever see his mom once more, and if he can ever discover out who he’s destined to be.
Percy’s Season 1 journey ended with Zeus’ bolt restored, amongst different key familial developments that we’ll let the episodes reveal themselves, and with the trio again at Camp Half-Blood earlier than returning to their properties on the finish of summer season. Grover is on a mission to seek out Pan, the long-missing god of nature, which can take him to the seas in Season 2, based mostly on the second e-book of the franchise.
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Is Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 filming now?
Manufacturing started on Percy Jackson Season 2 in August 2024. It’s at present filming in Vancouver, Canada.
Is there a Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 trailer?
There isn’t any official trailer but, however Disney+ did debut the primary teaser from Season 2 at D23 Expo earlier in 2024. There have been additionally snippets of latest footage within the aforementioned November teaser. The teaser reveals the primary footage of Scobell within the new season and appears to depict the chariot race scene from the Sea of Monsters novel. Within the video above, Scobell’s Percy takes the reins of a chariot whereas sporting his Camp Half-Blood armor. Through the D23 panel, it was confirmed that there can be extra time spent at Camp Half-Blood in Season 2.
When does Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 come out?
An official launch date has not but been introduced, however Disney+ confirmed at D23 that Season 2 will premiere in 2025 on the streaming platform.
Which e-book is Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 based mostly on?
The brand new episodes can be based mostly on the second e-book in Riordan’s unique PJO franchise, The Sea of Monsters. Riordan expressed his pleasure to go into the Sea of Monsters when the collection was renewed in February 2024, about one week after the Season 1 finale got here out.
“I can’t wait to carry the subsequent season of Percy Jackson to Disney+!” Riordan stated in a press release on the time. “Increase anchors. Hoist the mainsail. All fingers on deck, demigods. We’re heading for the Sea of Monsters!”
Right here’s the official description for the brand new season: “Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one 12 months later to seek out his world turned the other way up. His friendship with Annabeth is altering, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone lacking, and camp is beneath siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set issues proper will take him off the map and into the lethal Sea of Monsters, the place a secret destiny awaits the son of Poseidon.”
What number of episodes are in Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2?
Riordan revealed in an replace on his weblog that the writers’ room is growing scripts based mostly on an eight-episode define he created in 2023. Season 1 was additionally eight episodes.
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