By means of PTI
LOS ANGELES: Disney Plus has formally ordered a live-action collection in response to Rick Riordan’s novel “Percy Jackson and the Olympians”.
Riordan introduced the collection pick out up in a video message, posted at the streaming provider’s authentic Twitter deal with.
Riordan and Jon Steinberg will write the pilot with James Bobin directing, Disney mentioned in a press free up.
The live-action collection will practice the fantastical tale of a 12-year-old fashionable demigod, Percy Jackson, who is simply coming to phrases along with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his grasp lightning bolt.
Now Percy should trek throughout The united states to search out it and repair order to Olympus, as in keeping with the authentic logline.
Steinberg will oversee the collection along with his generating spouse Dan Shotz.
Steinberg and Shotz function government manufacturers along Bobin, Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe and Gotham Team’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, DJ Goldberg.
The Disney Branded Tv display shall be produced by means of twentieth Tv.
Riordan began his “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” e-book collection with 2005’s “The Lightning Thief”.
The e-book turned into a success and was once adopted by means of 4 sequels — “The Sea of Monsters” (2006), “The Titan’s Curse” (2007), “The Fight of the Labyrinth” (2008) and “The Final Olympian” (2009).
The books have been up to now tailored by means of filmmaker Chris Columbus with a characteristic movie, titled “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”.
The movie starred Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson, Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase, and Brandon T. Jackson as Grover.
A sequel titled “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters”, was once directed by means of Thor Freudenthal and launched in 2013.