Percy Jackson's Creator Is Way More Excited About the Series Than the Movies

The creative team behind Percy Jackson at New York Comic Con.

It’s been a tumultuous decade but Rick Riordan is finally all in again on Percy Jackson and Hollywood. The creator of the popular book franchise was famously unimpressed about how Fox treated his characters with its two movie adaptations, 2010's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and 2013's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Sea of Monsters. But now, he’s much more confident that Disney is doing right by him and the fans with the new Disney+ streaming series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

“After the movie experience, I basically wrote off Hollywood for a long, long time,” Riordan told Variety. “I really didn’t want to have anything to do with the film industry. There were many years of me saying, ‘I don’t want to engage. I don’t want to think about other adaptations. I’m done.’ But when it started to become clear that something was going to happen with me or without me, I had a long talk with Becky, my wife. We said, ‘Well, if something’s going to happen, it’s probably best to give it one more shot.’”

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You can read much, much more about the world of Percy Jackson, including the casting, chemistry between the leads, and more, over at Variety. The piece certainly made me more interested in the show. Disney, it seems, is treating it with the respect and scale of its Marvel and Lucasfilm shows. Which is saying a lot.

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