It might be hard being a half-blood, but Percy Jackson is back with a new teaser
Percy Jackson And The Olympians TV series is coming to Disney+
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It’s been a book series, a movie series, an off-Broadway musical, and finally, Percy Jackson And The Olympians will be a Disney+ series. And while it might disappoint a segment of the show’s viewership, Logan Lerman is no longer Percy—as nice as it would’ve been to see a 30-year-old playing 12-year-old. But, hey, it worked in Dear Evan Hansen.
The Percy Jackson book series was a huge success, selling more than 180 million copies worldwide, with more than 40 translations. It follows the pre-teen Percy as he discovers he’s a modern-day demigod who must scour the U.S. to reestablish the order of Olympus. Unfortunately, however, the trailer doesn’t touch much of that. It does tease some forest-dwelling Spartans and a temple in the woods, though.
As if to prove this was happening and not just another rumor, series author and Percy Jackson movie hater Rick Riordan introduced the teaser at the D23 Expo. “Percy Jackson And The Olympians TV show is coming to life,” he said. “I think is the perfect time for it. We really could not have done this without the support of the Walt Disney Company. They’ve been behind the books from the very beginning, and they have helped us assemble a world-class team to bring this story to the screen. It’s a thrill for me to be involved in every step of the process.”
The trailer, however, doesn’t give much away. But it did debut our new Percy: Walker Scobell. Scobell joined Riordan on stage to describe Percy as “funny, witty, and sarcastic.” He also elicited a chorus of “aws” when he said that he would “try his hardest every single day” to make the best Percy Jackson possible. Good luck, Walker. Don’t let the Lerman hive get you down.
No release date on the series, but we were promised “soon.”
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No white person in history Has ever been named Percy Jackson. They should have cast a brother to play Percy.
Obligatory reminder that the Spartans were fucking awful and do not deserve their reputation as badass warriors:
https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/
Yeah, any Argive could kick their ass.
While I agree that the pop culture version of the Spartans (basically Fascism with a Bronze Age facade) is nothing to emulate, it is important to understand that almost 100% of what we think we “know” about the Spartans is from things written by their rivals the Athenians. So we need to take it with a bit of salt. Of course they were going to say Spartans were bad, evil people!
Of course they were going to say Spartans were bad, evil people!Did they? I got the impression that the likes of Thucydides, Xenophon, and so on liked the Spartans and complimented them (indirectly as a way of criticizing Athenian democracy, these guys being Athenian aristocrats), or at least didn’t demonize them. Athens and Sparta were even allies sometimes.
Logan Lerman is no longer Percy—as nice as it would’ve been to see a 30-year-old playing 12-year-old. But, hey, it worked in Dear Evan Hansen.All snark aside I was thinking about this yesterday while binging the final season of Derry Girls (wildly hilarious and a perfect conclusion to a perfect show) and all of the girls (plus James) are in their late-20s/early-30s. Nicola Coughlan is actually 35! And yet they all convincingly play teenagers, whereas Ben Platt (who would be on the younger side of this particular cast) looked like the living embodiment of “how do you do, fellow kids?” in Dear Evan Hansen.Of course different people age differently and it’s fine, but just interesting seeing how it works out for different actors. Bianca Lawson played teens for 20+ years!