Deadline has reported that Disney+ released a teaser trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Tuesday. Check out the teaser trailer below.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians will premiere on Disney+ on December 20. The teaser reveals a little of the journey Percy and his friends embark on after the Master Bolt is stolen.
The show is based on the Percy Jackson & the Olympians novel series by Rick Riordan (The Sun and the Star, The Lost Hero). The first two Percy Jackson books, The Lightning Thief and Sea of Monsters, were previously adapted into films. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning thief was released in 2010 and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: Sea of Monsters was released in 2013. Both movies starred Logan Lerman (Stuck in Love, The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Brandon T. Jackson (Tropic Thunder, Lottery Ticket), and Alexandra Daddario (True Detective, The White Lotus).
Riordan has worked closely on the series with showrunners Jon Steinberg (Jericho, The Old Man) and Dan Shotz (National Treasure, Black Sails) and The adaptation is an accurate portrayal of his characters, according to Deadline.
“I feel comfortable telling fans of the books who have been waiting — in some cases, decades — for this kind of faithful adaptation, that this is the one you’ve been waiting for. We are involved and I think you’re gonna love it,” Riordan said in an interview with EW, according to Deadline.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians stars Walker Scobell (Secret Headquarters, The Adam Project) as Percy Jackson, Aryan Simhadri (Spin, The Main Event) as Grover Underwood, and Leah Sava Jeffries (Something from Tiffany’s, Beast) as Annabeth Chase.
The series is executive produced by Riordan, Shotz, Steinberg, Monica Owusu-Breen (Lost, Alias), Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (Stargirl, Stephanie), Rebecca Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians), Jeremy Bell (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Abduction), Anders Engström (See, Hanna), D.J. Goldberg (The Factory, Whiteout), Jim Rowe (Godzilla, Watchmen), Jet Wilkinson (The Old Man, First Kill), Bert Salke (First Wave, Boomtown), and James Bobin (Muppets Most Wanted, Dora and the Lost City of Gold). Riordian and Steinberg wrote the first two episodes, which are directed by Bobin.