Over the past few days, Disney held their D23 Expo in Anaheim, California. This convention allows Disney fans to celebrate their favorite Disney projects, while also allowing other projects in the works to be announced.
This past Saturday, the D23 Expo and author Rick Riordan allowed book fans to get their first look at the new Percy Jackson & The Olympians series coming soon to Disney+.
The Percy Jackson series has been a beloved series for nearly two decades, and it’s finally getting the chance to have a proper adaptation following the not-so-well received Percy Jackson movies released in the early 2010s.
Now, Riordan has creative control, and fans are excited. The 50-second trailer didn’t give out much, but it showed enough to have people wanting more.
The teaser showed several shots of Camp Half-Blood, the camp where titular character Percy ultimately ends up following the discovery of his demigod status, and a few scenes of campers, including Percy himself.
Throughout the teaser, Walker Scobell, the actor of Percy Jackson, narrates the entire opening paragraph of the first Percy Jackson & The Olympians book, The Lightning Thief, including the iconic, “Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.” This was something that Percy Jackson fans were waiting to hear for many years.
One Twitter user tweeted, “WE REALLY GOT THE ICONIC PAGE 1 LINES” while attaching the meme of the man crying his eyes out.
Another user tweeted, “THE QUOTES DIRECTLY FROM THE BOOK THE FLASH AT THE END OF PERCY IN THE RAIN IM SOBBING”
Excitement is running through the Percy Jackson fandom, and it seems like it won’t let up anytime soon.
Season one of the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series is projected to finish filming at the beginning of 2023, while the show is slated to come out on Disney+ in 2024.
Click here to check out the teaser trailer for the show.
