Welcome to Camp Half-Blood: Disney Plus’ Percy Jackson series casts Walker Scobell in lead role
The Adam Project actor is set to star as the titular hero from the YA Greek mythology-inspired book series
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Wake up, demigods! Disney+ has found its lead protagonist for the Percy Jackson And The Olympians series in The Adam Project’s Walker Scobell, reports Variety.
The series is set to follow 12-year-old Percy Jackson (Scobell), a modern demigod who, after finding out his Greek deity parentage, must go on an adventure to find the sky god Zeus’ master lighting bolt after being accused of stealing the prized possession. In the form of the classic hero’s journey, Jackson travels across the United States with a few allies as they try to restore balance to Olympus.
In a post on his website, Percy Jackson And The Olympians author Rick Riordan revealed the casting news and explained how Scobell fit the bill of the snarky hero. “It was obvious to me and the rest of the team that Walker had the perfect mix of comedic timing, sweetness, rebelliousness, snark and heroism to embody our hero Percy Jackson,” said Riordan.
Future casting news for the rest of the Camp Half-Blood crew doesn’t seem far off, as Riordan revealed that the two other lead roles of Annabeth Chase (a daughter of Greek goddess Athena) and Grover Underwood (a satyr) are “getting very close to being finalized and announced.”
This series will be a fresh start for fans of the beloved book series. While other YA fantasy series like Harry Potter have had great movie adaptions, Percy Jackson has, uh, not. While the many changes and odd choices in the 2010 Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief weren’t so bad as to prevent a sequel from being made, fans have voiced disappointment in the film versions. Even Riordan believed the entire movie should’ve been censored to “two hours of blank screen.”
The series pilot will be written by Riordan and Jon Steinberg, with James Bobin (The Muppets) directing. Steinberg and his producing partner Dan Shotz (Black Sails) will oversee the series and also serve as executive producers. Production for the series will begin this summer in Vancouver with 20th Television.
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This sounds like Disney trying extremely hard to make up for two prior messes. Their adaptions of Riordan’s IP movie wise have always been extremely baffling fuckups, although I know Riordan likely played a part as well, but as to how much, I do not know.If Harry Potter can see a successful transfer from books to it’s own universe of films that make everyone loads of money, Percy Jackson can as well.
Chris Columbus fucked it up. He tried to fuck up the first two HP movies, but they were pretty invulnerable. But it’s not by chance that they got better the further they got away from him.
Riordan tried to steer the films differently. https://rickriordan.com/2018/11/memories-from-my-tv-movie-experience/
My kids like the two big-screen adaptations, so I don’t know what they’ll think of the re-boot. I think they’ve read at least the first book.I find the movies pretty crappy myself. Not even Alexandra Daddario can keep my attention. Rosario Dawson was good in a part so small it might as well be a cameo, and then you have way-overqualifed Joey Pants and Uma Thurman wasted in really small roles, too.
My kids liked them as well. The biggest thing I remember is how the second one clearly was such a step down in budget that the entire supporting cast of the first film. I learned that Anthony Head is the poor man’s Pierce Brosnan
Once again, I ask why Rick Riordan isn’t celebrated far and wide for being the anti-Rowling.
He created a diverse cast of characters. Unlike a lot of “diversity” efforts, which really just feel like changing John to Juan or Alicia to Ayesha without doing anything else to the character, he makes efforts to create real characters with distinct backgrounds.
He wrote beautiful coming out stories for Nico and created a kick-ass gender-fluid character in Alex Fierro. The Texas Legislature was going to honor Riordan (who was born in San Antonio and went to UT and UT-San Antonio) and he told them to pound sand because they had a bathroom bill in the works.
So, he lives it as well as writes it.
And through Rick Riordan Presents, he’s giving non-white authors the benefit of his name and bringing attention to non-European mythologies.
It’s not just enough to shit on Rowling sometimes. Maybe it would be good to reward those who are doing their best to get it right and often, doing pretty good.
Rowling’s far-reaching recognition was a very rare story, really. The movies being as big as they were helped, of course, but the Hunger Games movies faced similar success at the box office and popularity, yet Suzanne Collins never got the name recognition Rowling had.
Rick Riordan, apart from being named like a Marvel character, was just one of many, many, many, MANY YA authors that ended up riding JK’s wake. She did define the genre in the modern era (read: made it an absolutely money-spinner).
What’s most surreal about this totally unwarranted tirade is that, for someone who seems hell bent on establishing themselves as ideologically pure and correct…it seems like what set them off in the first place was the insinuation that Riordan is a better progressive influence on YA literature than Terfy Rowling.“The fuck? People are saying nice this about this author for being good at diversity? But he’s just riding the TERF’s wake! And…and he’s WHITE!!!”
And through Rick Riordan Presents, he’s giving non-white authors the benefit of his name and bringing attention to non-European mythologies.
yeah … I don’t think you know what that means…
Yeah, nah. I know exactly what it means. I’m a non-white writer. I don’t need whitey’s permission nor help to write. I don’t exist just so some pasty Caucasians can use me to show how great they want everyone to perceive them as. I’m not a gwailo’s fucking fashion accessory.
So why even fucking try?
Please, let us know what you fucking did in the last year to help the cause of non-white authors getting to write about non-white subjects.
Please, let us know what you fucking did in the last year to help the cause of non-white authors getting to write about non-white subjects.See what happens, folks, when you take away whitey’s ability to use minorities to showcase how good they are? They get angry. So very, very angry. They hate being called out for it. They’re pissed that one of their toys is being taken away – because that’s all it for them.I’ll tell ya what I didn’t do: I didn’t exploit minorities to further my own branding. I don’t stand in their way. I don’t try to claim their successes as the result of my actions. We don’t owe you shit, white boy. You wanna help? Shut the fuck and step outta our fucking way. Also, maybe don’t get so worked up over fucking children’s books. Seriously. YA isn’t equipping any dipshit with nous and nuance to delicately navigate complex social issues.
So… you did nothing.
^ Notice how the angry white boy diminishes the achievements of minorities when he’s been told he can’t take credit for them. I wrote. And published. And I didn’t need your permission, or Tricky Dick Riordan’s, to do it, and I bet that just tears you up inside like a barb wire buttplug.
Uh-huh. Now who is worked up? And show me where I said any non-white author needed “permission.”
Riordan, who you apparently have a problem with, has an imprint that has published or is scheduled to publish 35 books from 14 authors of color since 2018. Stories about Cuban, Korean, Hindu, Hmong, Navajo, African-American and Ghanian myths or folk tales have been brought to light.
None of them needed his permission. All were helped by his name.
But congrats. I’m sure your career is bustling along without any help.
Riordan, who you apparently have a problem with,This implies I actually thought about him before you started sucking his dick. Honestly, I never even knew the dude’s name before you mentioned him. has an imprint that has published or is scheduled to publish 35 books from 14 authors of color since 2018. Stories about Cuban, Korean, Hindu, Hmong, Navajo, African-American and Ghanian myths or folk tales have been brought to light.“Remember, darkies: your stories only have value when a white persons declares them valuable. And white people: you can read these stories, because another white person has said it’s ok.”The fact that you cannot see a problem with any of this is exactly why you’re the problem. But congrats. I’m sure your career is bustling along without any help.Theeeeere it is: “Coloured people can’t succeed without a white person.” Except you’re all passive-aggressive and bitchy about it, because of course you are.And I’m doing fine, thanks. Better than you, I guarantee it.Remember: sucking Rick Riordan’s dick doesn’t make you as successful as Rick Riordan, Bobby!
https://www.kwamembalia.com/Sorry, Kwame. None of your best-selling debut novel, the awards and the books you’ve published since your debut under the Riordan imprint actually count because a white person helped.
https://www.tehlorkaymejia.com/aboutSorry, Tehlor. They’ve canceled that TV deal for your book, which was named best 9-12 book of 2020, because it was published under the white guy’s label.
https://www.gracikim.com/aboutUgh, Graci. This is all good, but you know that no one cared about Korean mythology until the white guy gave permission, so none of this counts. Better luck next time. All of you.
Check with Maul Keating to get the proper steps on how to do all this and stay pure.
Oh, you’re doing that thing we’re you’re acting offended on their behalf, and pretending you know them personally. How very Caucasian of you. Look at you, acting as if somehow their works are a reflection on YOU! I’m not criticising any of these authors, by the way. Never have, and never will.What I am criticising is the fact that in order for people like you acknowledge them, they have to be checked and vetted by a white person first, and that their entire careers – as you keep pointing out – only exist because of a white man. And your exceedingly happy about the fact that these people of colour only got published because of a white guy.I don’t blame them at all, because, if you weren’t whiter than a Klan hood on laundry day, you’d know that that’s what most people have to do: become dancing monkeys for the white people who control the publishing industry – make sure you only write what white people expect of your race!So, you read any of ‘em?
What a fucking snake eating it’s own fucking tail. White author helps his predominately white audience find authors of color telling stories of different cultures.
“Ugh, white people didn’t like it until a white man told them to”
Would you rather these stories NOT be told? Or these authors NOT get the same boost? In every avenue of popular culture, white actors, writers, producers, directors and playwrights are criticized for not being diverse enough and not helping provide opportunities.
This one author seems to have at least taken a stab at it and you are pissed that he dared to do it without whatever fucking Simon Sez bullshit code you feel he needed to do. By the way, I’m guilty of all your perceived sins.You’re damn right I didn’t know these stories and these authors before I read some of Riordan label ones. No, I haven’t gotten to all of them.You’re damn right that Riordan, whose work I enjoy and share with my kids, throwing his name behind this helped me find them.
So yes, a white guy helped me find non-white authors. Guilty as charged and go fuck yourself.
Noooooo, dude, shhhh, you’re doing a racism by (checks notes) giving props to a good children’s author for being good at representation. Somehow.I gotta say, this Maul Keating guy seems so against handouts (which isn’t what Riordan is doing anyway, but never mind), they almost come off as being pro-Reagan! Pretty funny for such an obsessive ideologue lol
You’re exuding massive Niceguy energy.Also, read some adult literature and maybe don’t get caught up in children’s book, k? Will really help you develop and grow as a person who doesn’t seem other races as stereotypes in need of your glorious benevolence.
I can’t tell if “Barb Wire Buttplug” makes me want to read your self-published stuff more or less, but if you have a novel by that name, please link me to it.
It’s not self-published.
Then link it, hooker. I wanna see whether all this venom leads to anything worth a shit.
Oh, yeah, because doxxing oneself to a bunch of exceedingly angry white neckbeards never goes poorly. No thanks. I’d rather not get SWATted. Have a nice day, and leave me out of your manifestos, thanks.
As if I have the patience and concentration to write a manifesto. At any rate, just means you’re shouting into the void as much as anyone else here, which is fine.
I know you, but I figured that, as a writer of colour, you white guys need all the help you can get and I’d thought I’d encourage you. At any rate, just means you’re shouting into the void as much as anyone else hereYes, yes. Run away. Once things get a little too hard after you’ve tried to start a fight, throw up your hands and declare “WHATEVER”.
100% of the aggression in this thread is coming from you, my guy, and 0% of it makes any fathomable sense ¯\_(ツ)_/¯