Just three months after Disney revealed they’d greenlit a Percy Jackson and the Olympians television series, the House of Mouse have announced the show’s leading star!
13-year-old Walker Scobell (who starred alongside Ryan Reynolds in Netflix's The Adam Project) will be playing the titular demigod, who’s already struggling to come to terms with his Olympian roots when he’s accused of stealing Zeus’s lightning bolt.
Percy and his friends, Grover (a centaur) and Annabeth, have to undertake an epic quest across the United States to reclaim the missing mythological weapon and restore order to Olympus
Trust us, it’s going to be better than it sounds.
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