PERCY JACKSON Disney+ Series Finds Its Pilot Director
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The gods are awake! Author Rick Riordan recently shared a slew of good news about the upcoming Disney+ adaptation of
In a blog post, Riordan shared this about Bobin:
Our pilot director will be James Bobin, who is both a terrific person and an incredibly talented director who checks all the boxes we were hoping for in a partner. He recently directed the pilot for
Mysterious Benedict Society , which I loved and found very true to the source material, and he has worked on everything from creating Borat and Ali G with Sacha Baron Cohen to Flight of the Conchords to Muppets to Dora and the Lost City of Gold (which the Riordans found an incredibly fun adaptation of our beloved Dora the Explorer cartoon from the kids’ childhood.) James knows the Percy books well. His kids are fans. His humor is wonderful. We are in good hands, demigods, and lucky to have him joining our team.
For an adaptation like
Riordan also shared more about the casting and process of the
Though the
He notes the technology he saw was awe-inspiring. And he hopes that some of it can inform
If you’re not familiar with the Volume and how it works, there is a short YouTube documentary publicly available here. It is pretty incredible stuff that puts you in the middle of a 360-degree virtual environment. They even plopped us in the middle of deep space at one point and let me punch the button “enter hyperspace.” Suddenly, we were doing the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. The effects are so real we were warned to be careful if we had motion sickness, and they weren’t lying.
If all goes well, Riordan hopes to see Disney+’s
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