Disney+ has given a series order to "Percy Jackson and the Olympians".
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.
Production is slated to begin in the summer with casting currently underway.
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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 series order was announced by Riordan on social media.
"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.
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