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This post is as of May 15th, 2022. All posts like this will be under “#what we know so far” on this blog.

What We Know

General

It will be a live action series on Disney+

Rick Riordan and Becky Riordan are heavily part of the process, including overseeing the series with their production company, Mythomagic, Inc. and as members of the writers’ room.

Season 1 will cover book 1 and will be 8 episodes.

Production starts June 1st, 2022, and will end January 25th, 2023

Currently optimistically planned to be released in 2023.

Casting

Percy Jackson will be played by 13-year-old Walker Scobell

Annabeth Chase will be played by 12-year-old Leah Sava Jeffries

Grover Underwood will be played by 16-year-old Aryan Simhadri

Walker, Leah, and Aryan are already in Vancouver and are working on their swordplay, stunts, and “fine-tuning their knowledge of Greek mythology and their characters.”

Casting calls have gone out for other characters that appear in the first book, but these are closed calls so only those with agents could audition.

Casting for characters that show up in later books, such as Nico, or later series, such as Heroes of Olympus, wont happen for a very long time

Production

Executive Producers: Rick Riordan, Becky Riordan, Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz

Pilot Director: James Bobin, who will also direct the second episode

Jet Wilkinson and Anders Engstrom have also signed on to direct.

Production Designer: Dan Hennah

Costume designer: Tish Monaghan

The show will be filmed at Mammoth Studios in Vancouver

They plan to use a similar filming process to The Mandalorian (Industrial Light and Magic’s “Volume” stage: 360-degree virtual technology) (video on how it works).

They have been scouting for filming locations over the past few months.

The Writers’ Room

Writers: Daphne Olive, Monica Owusu-Breen, Joe Tracz, and Rick Riordan and Becky Riordan

Assistants: Xavier Stiles, Zoë Neary and Stewart Strandberg

Scripts for episodes 1-4 have been submitted.

Working on outlines/scripts for the rest of the season.

Season 1 follows book 1 but they’re “adding a lot of interesting nuances, depth, Easter eggs and backstory” to keep the story fresh and fun for those who know the books well.