Rick Riordon’s much-loved Percy Jacksonbook franchise gets a new lease of life on Disney+ this month, as a fresh live-action series based on the novels heads to the streaming service.
The eight-episode season- titled Percy Jackson and the Olympians, follows the events of The Lightning Thief — the first book of the series. Starring Walker Scobell in the lead role, the series follows Percy as he discovers that happens to be a demigod with divine powers.
When the Greek god Zeus tasks him with finding his stolen lightning bolt, Percy and his friends Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) and Grover (Aryan Simhadri) must find themselves on a quest to retrieve the weapon and bring order back to Olympus.
This new reboot of the series comes after a pair of disappointing Percy Jackson movie adaptions in the early 2010’s (The Lightning Thief and Sea of Monsters), which were infamously derided by Riordan himself. Fans of the books will be relieved to hear that this new series looks set to be far more faithful to the source material, with Riordan onboard as one of the writers.
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