And if there's one thing fans love to argue about, it's how casting matches the image of a character we make up in our heads. So we used AI to create portraits of Percy Jackson characters based on how they're described in the books to compare them to the two casts.
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Note: Remember that these comparisons are for fun! Rewriting and casting an adaptation to incorporate more diversity and representation is more important than casting someone who looks exactly like the book description.
To make these portraits, we used Artbreeder to take some existing faces, morph them together, and add all the features described in the books. Here are the results:
1.Here's Percy Jackson based on how he's described in the books:
Percy played by Logan Lerman in the movies:
And here he is side by side with book Percy:
Walker Scobell is set to play Percy in the upcoming Disney+ series.
And here he is side by side with book Percy:
2.Annabeth Chase based on her book description:
Annabeth played by Alexandra Daddario in the movies:
Side by side:
Leah Sava Jeffries will play Annabeth in the series:
Side by side:
3.Grover Underwood:
Grover played by Brandon T. Jackson in the movies:
Aryan Simhadri will play Grover in the series.
Side by side:
4.Chiron:
Chiron played by Pierce Brosnan in the first movie:
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