Showing 1 - 8 of 8 articles tagged "Percy Jackson and the Olympians"

• Posted Tuesday 5/10/22 at 11:51PM EDT

  Percy Jackson movie star Alexandra Daddario expresses support for Leah Jeffries in Disney+'s TV adaptation

  Daddario, who previously played Annabeth Chase in two Percy Jackson films, has spoken out after author Rick Riordan defended the casting...

• Posted Tuesday 5/10/22 at 1:19PM EDT

  Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan condemns racist backlash to Leah Jeffries' casting as Annabeth Chase

  Some fans of Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians novel series have expressed outrage that Jeffries is Black, in contrast...

• Posted Thursday 5/05/22 at 3:28PM EDT

  Percy Jackson and the Olympians casts two key roles

  Aryan Simhadri will star as Grover Underwood and Leah Sava Jeffries will play Annabeth Chase in the Disney+ series starring...

• Posted Monday 4/11/22 at 4:07PM EDT

  Disney+ taps Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson

  The Adam Project star will lead the Rick Riordan book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, playing the titular "12-year-old...

• Posted Tuesday 1/25/22 at 1:37PM EST

  Disney+ greenlights Percy Jackson and the Olympians

  The series adaptation of the Rick Riordan book series has been in the works for the past two years.

• Posted Tuesday 4/27/21 at 6:45PM EDT

  Percy Jackson Disney+ series begins casting for title role

  Author Rick Riordan announced on his blog that casting for the series is “now in its earliest stages," adding: "I...

• Posted Tuesday 6/09/20 at 1:47PM EDT

  Percy Jackson author says the Disney+ series will "fix" the problem of the movies

  Rick Riordan made clear in a series of tweets Monday that he is no fan of the movie series based...

• Posted Thursday 5/14/20 at 3:18PM EDT

  Disney+ developing a Percy Jackson TV series

  Percy Jackson book series Rick Riordan announced in a Twitter video with his wife Becky that a TV adaptation is...