'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' Renewed for Season 2 at Disney+ | THR News Video
'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' is returning to Disney+ for a second season. The streaming service renewed the series that's based on the best-selling novels of the same name by author Rick Riordan a week after the show's first season concluded. Season two will adapt the second book of the novel series, 'The Sea of Monsters,' which sends Percy and some of his fellow demigods on an oceanic quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
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00:00 "My name is Percy Jackson. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah, you could say that."
00:05 Percy Jackson and the Olympians is returning to Disney+ for a second season.
00:10 The streaming service renewed the series that's based on the best-selling novels of the same name
00:14 a week after the show's first season concluded. Season 2 will adapt the second book of the novel
00:19 series, The Sea of Monsters, which sends Percy on an oceanic quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
00:24 The show's stars, Walker Scobell, Aryan Samhadri, and Lea Sivey Jeffries,
00:29 helped spread the news on social media. And following the announcement,
00:32 Jeffries, who plays Annabeth Chase, also went live on Instagram.
00:35 "I'm so excited and I'm so grateful and I'm super happy for season 2.
00:40 And I'm just, I'm really glad that you guys came on this wild, wild trip with us."
00:46 Percy Jackson and the Olympians had the biggest launch to date for a Disney+ series that's not
00:51 part of either the Star Wars or Marvel Universes. The show's supportive fan base was evident in the
00:56 turnout at a recent fan event in Santa Monica, California, tied to the season 1 finale.
01:01 The cast told The Hollywood Reporter this about how season 1 of the series was brought to life.
01:05 "They built these huge set pieces. Like, when we were in the underworld, I was not at all expecting
01:10 them to do this. They made these massive, like, sand dunes for us to slide down into Tartarus into.
01:16 It was like, they brought an excavator inside the studio just to load and unload all of the sand.
01:22 It was awesome. Yeah. And also, but a lot of it, like a lot of the really big places,
01:26 like when we were in New York and a lot of that was on the volume stage. And it's insane
01:31 how real it looks. And Montauk Beach, all of that, that's all on the volume stage, which is crazy."
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