Disney+ has tracked down its Percy Jackson.
Walker Scobell (The Adam Project) has handled the lead spot in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, a series transformation of creator Rick Riordan’s smash hit books. Riordan, a chief maker of the series, declared the news Monday morning on his site.
“Walker Scobell is an inconceivably gifted young fellow who blew us away with his tryout tapes for the job of Percy,” Riordan composed. “Large numbers of you as of late found how extraordinary Walker is the point at which you watched his film The Adam Project, in which Walker illuminated the screen as a more youthful rendition of Ryan Reynolds’ personality.
We were adequately lucky to try out Walker months before that film came out, yet the film just affirmed what we had some awareness of his ability.
It was clear to me and the remainder of the group that Walker had the ideal blend of comedic timing, pleasantness, disobedience, snideness and chivalry to epitomize our legend, Percy Jackson.”
Disney+ provided a progression request to Percy Jackson and the Olympians in January. The series follows a 12-year-old kid (Scobell) who learns he is a diving being.
He’s simply dealing with his recently discovered otherworldly powers when the sky god Zeus blames him for taking his lord lightning bolt.
Presently Percy should travel through America to track down it and reestablish request to Olympus. Creation on the series from Disney’s twentieth Television is set to start in the late spring.
Percy is brilliant and empathetic, with a sharp comical inclination. He’s generally seen himself as a pariah, to some extent due to how the perspectives his ADHD and dyslexia. Rash and fast to outrage when things appear to be uncalled for, he’s likewise a loving child and steadfast companion who needs to do a good job for those he really focuses on – if by some stroke of good luck, he can find somewhere where he fits in.
The initial two books in Riordan’s series were recently adjusted into highlight films that featured Logan Lerman as the title character.
Devotees of the books were not exactly enthused with the movies, which matured up the principal characters and made a few other key changes to the story.
Riordan is more associated with the series, composing the pilot episode with Jon Steinberg (Black Sails, FX’s The Old Man), which James Bobin will coordinate.
Steinberg and delivering accomplice Dan Shotz will regulate the series.
Every one of the four-chief produce alongside Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe and The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg.
Scobell made his film debut with Netflix’s The Adam Project. He’s set to star with Owen Wilson, Michael Peña, and Jesse Williams in Paramount’s family activity film Secret Headquarters.
He is repped by A3 Artists Agency, Stagecoach Entertainment, and lawyer Ryan Levine.
