Disney has just presented the actor who will play the young Percy in the future series adapted from the best-selling novels by Rick Riordan.
After films with mixed success, the saga Percy Jackson will return to the screens through a series offered by Disney+.
On the program, a season for each of the books, and permanent supervision by the author of the books, Rick Riordanin order to avoid a new catastrophe as had been the films produced by 20th Century Fox in the early 2010s.
Officially announced two years ago, the series is starting to give its news.
The author announced at the beginning of January that the series was to begin filming this summer, it was in this month of April 2022 that the actor who will bring the character of Percy Jackson to life on the small screen was finally revealed.
It’s at Walker Scobell13-year-old actor who recently starred in the Netflix film Adam Through Timewhom will fall the difficult task of playing the role of the young demigod in the new series.
A series that wants to be faithful
The casting of the young actor already seems to be an indicator of the desire of the directors of the series to respect the original workmuch to the delight of fans.
Unlike the films, Percy Jackson will this time have the right age group since, as a reminder, thehe hero is 12 years old at the start of his adventures.
Moreover, Walker Scobel is also very similar to the description that is given of the hero in the books, in which he is described as “a young man with disheveled black hair, Mediterranean skin tone and green eyes similar to the color of the sea”. All he needs then is a simple black dye to his hair to look like Percy on screen.
It remains to be seen whether his acolytes Annabeth Chase et Grover will also have the right to equally similar counterparts.
Still no release date announced as to when Disney+ subscribers can join the demigods of Camp Half-Blood in the new Percy Jackson series.