"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" Series Begins Filming

Production began on Disney‘s upcoming adaptation of Rick Riordan’s book series “Percy Jackson and The Olympians” .

Riordan announced Thursday the news on Instagram alongside sharing a new photo from the set.

The series is targeted toward a general audience and especially tweens, teens, and young adults.

It features Walker Sobell as Percy, Aryan Simhadri as Grover, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth, Virginia Kull as Sally Jackson, Glynn Turman as Chiron, Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysus, Megan Mullally as Alecto, and Timm Sharp as Percy’s stepfather Gabe Ugliano.

The series is centered around Percy Jackson, a 12-year-old boy in modern-day who learns that he is actually a demi-god, the son of the Greek God Poseidon.

The project is produced by 20th Television and scripted by Rick Riordan, who wrote the original book series, which has more than 180M copies, and Jon Steinberg.

The duo will write the pilot with James Bobin directing. The trio will also serve as executive producers.

Steinberg will oversee the series with his producing partner Dan Shotz. Steinberg and Shotz serve as executive producers.

Executive producers also include Bobin, Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, the former Touchstone Television President who originally put the project into development, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, and Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, D.J. Goldberg.

The upcoming series is set to adapt the first novel of the book series “The Lightning Thief”, which sees Percy traveling across America with his friends to clear his name and return order to Mount Olympus after he is accused of stealing Zeus’s powerful master lightning bolt — all the while coming to terms with his newly learned demi-god status.

Scobell made his film debut this year opposite Ryan Reynolds in Netflix’s “The Adam Project“.

“Percy Jackson and The Olympians” debuted in 2005 and consists of five novels, including “The Lightning Thief”,  “The Sea of Monsters”, “The Titan’s Curse”, “The Battle of the Labyrinth”, and “The Last Olympian”.

There were also several spin-offs as well as a sequel book series known as “Heroes of Olympus” that followed a new cast of main characters and returning favorites from the first books.

“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” centered around a 12-year-old demigod, Percy Jackson, who learns of his supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. Now Percy must trek across America to find it and restore order to Olympus.

It was previously adapted as a movie “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” in 2010, which was followed by “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters” in 2013.

The series adaptation was ordered by Disney back in January 2022.