The multiverse could also be permeating different fantastical worlds, comparable to Marvel and the D.C. comics, however do not anticipate it for Percy Jackson simply but.
Rick Riordan, the writer of the beloved collection, tells PEOPLE that whereas season 2 of the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians is chugging alongside (and is “larger and even higher than season one”), he has been intentional about separating 2010’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and 2013’s Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters from the present present.
“It was a really acutely aware resolution that we mentioned, ‘Okay, we’re not going to cope with the film stuff,'” he says. “I do not need something to overshadow the brand new younger solid and take away from them. This must be their second, and we have to give them room to breathe and be these characters with out worrying about something that got here earlier than.”
The present options newcomers Walker Scobell as Percy, Leah Jeffries as Annabeth and Aryan Simhadri as Grover, all of their breakout roles.
Whereas different fantasy worlds have launched previous actors who’ve performed the identical character again into the canon by means of multiverses, Riordan says he is uncertain whether or not we’ll be seeing Logan Lerman, who initially performed Percy 14 years in the past, or any of the original cast again on the silver display,
“I imply, Marvel did not get into the multiverse — what number of motion pictures have been they into it earlier than they launched that idea?” Riordan says. “So I believe if that have been to occur, that is approach down the road.”
Riordan was famously strongly against the unique movies — calling them his “life’s work going through a meat grinder” — because the creators allegedly did not seek the advice of with him on the script. Now, he says, he has way more artistic management and has been writing on the scripts himself.
“I’m at a degree in my profession once I can have the time and the place I’ve the facility, frankly, to be a part of the method and ensure my voice is heard,” he says. “I now perceive how issues can go so horribly unsuitable with variations.”
Riordan teases that he is seen the scripts for season 2 — and he is “actually proud of them,” that means followers have a lot to look ahead to within the coming season after season 1 completed airing in early 2024.
The writer says this season will “minimize away and fill in among the historical past of the characters and the backstory” by means of a collection of flashbacks to assist readers perceive the backstory of all of the characters extra deeply. He additionally teases {that a} fan-favorite character, Thalia Grace, will probably be launched.
“The fantastic thing about doing Sea of Monsters on the TV display is that every one these little tales that Annabeth tells us about her background with Luke and Thalia within the ebook aren’t simply tales,” he says. “You may see them occurring in her flashbacks.”
Practically 20 years after the discharge of the primary ebook, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, and two motion pictures, one TV present and 7 books later (with an eighth one to return), Riordan marvels on the longevity of the collection.
His newest novel, Wrath of the Triple Goddess, hit bookshelves on Sept. 24, the second in his newest Percy trilogy, The Senior Yr Adventures.
“The truth that this little story that I informed [my son] remains to be with us and youngsters are nonetheless selecting it up for the primary time in the present day, and there are readers now who learn it and are sufficiently old now that they are beginning to have youngsters of their very own — I imply, the entire thing is simply mind-boggling,” Riordan provides.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 1 is now streaming on Disney+.