• 11 months ago
Check out the latest featurette for Percy Jackson and the Olympians as the cast and crew explore what the process was like to adapt the iconic book to the screen.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson, who’s just coming to terms with his newfound 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.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians stars Walker Scobell, Leah Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell, Azriel Dalman, and Glynn Turman. The series is directed by Anders Engström, Jet Wilkinson, and James Bobin.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians first 3 episodes are available now for streaming on Disney Plus with new episodes weekly.

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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 screen.
01:04 And you're just putting the best artists together to make sure that this succeeds
01:10 in 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.
01:27 [HEROES]
01:31 [HEROES]
01:34 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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