Bringing Life to Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians

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Here's your inside look at the Disney+ fantasy series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, created by Rick Riordan.  Percy Jackson and the Olympians Cast:  Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Virginia Kull, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Megan Mullally and Timm Sharp  Stream Percy Jackson and the Olympians now on Disney+!

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00:00 What you see here, they are not fiction.

00:04 A couple of years ago in third grade, I started reading Percy Jackson.

00:09 They are not fantasies.

00:11 I've been imagining that world and actually being here is the weirdest thing ever.

00:16 Something powerful is at work here.

00:18 I can't wrap my head around the fact that I get to be in something that I look up to so much.

00:23 Today feel like a winning kind of day to you?

00:28 The fans are going to love the show.

00:30 Because it is very, very close to the books.

00:33 There's just subtle minor changes.

00:36 Perseus, that's me.

00:38 In terms of updating the story, it was important that I looked at it again with fresh eyes

00:44 and made sure that the story was speaking to all kids

00:48 and that everyone could look at this series and see themselves.

00:52 After all, that's why I wrote the book in the first place.

00:56 Heroes, it's time.

00:58 A lot of the adaptation process was the imagination of things behind the words

01:02 to flesh out the story on the screen.

01:04 And you're just putting the best artists together to make sure that this succeeds.

01:10 And the imagination of kids around the world wanting to see this come to life.

01:15 I've been imagining it in my head since third grade and actually seeing it is surreal.

01:21 It's exactly how I imagined it.

01:25 It's amazing.

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