‘Percy Jackson’ Disney+ Series Casts Breakout Star Walker Scobell

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Today, original author and series writer Rick Riordan announced that they had found their Percy Jackson. According to his blog post, actor Walker Scobell has been cast in the title role for Percy Jackson and The Olympians on Disney+. We at Knight Edge Media revealed that an open casting call for the role began back in April 2021. Walker Scobell recently made waves in last month’s The Adam Project opposite Ryan Reynolds. He was quickly fancast in the role of Percy Jackson even though he was already cast in the role back in January privately.

Walker Scobell is an incredibly talented young man who blew us away with his audition tapes for the role of Percy. Many of you recently discovered how great Walker is when you watched his movie The Adam Project, in which Walker lit up the screen as a younger version of Ryan Reynolds’ character. We were fortunate enough to audition Walker months before that movie came out, but the film only confirmed what we already knew about his talent. It was obvious to me and the rest of the team that Walker had the perfect mix of comedic timing, sweetness, rebelliousness, snark and heroism to embody our hero Percy Jackson. I got to deliver the news to Walker personally via Zoom back on Jan. 28 that he had been chosen for the part, and it was a magical moment that made me feel for the first time: “Okay, this is real. This is worth all the waiting and the hard work. This project is going to be amazing.” It has been tough keeping this information under my hat because I was so excited to share the news with the fans!

Logan Lerman originally played an aged-up version of the character in the Fox films in 2010, but the films were never met with much praise. After Disney acquired Fox, fans of the book series hoped the studio would reboot the project on Disney+. Production will begin later this summer in Vancouver, Canada, for 8-episodes.

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Percy Jackson has no set release date

 

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Caleb began his film and television news reporting career during high school in 2008 by creating Superhero Movie News and part-time writing on ComicBookMovie.com. Eventually, he started Omega Underground with Christopher Marc in 2015. Breaking some major news stories throughout the industry and gaining recognition as a respectable film reporter on social media.

Caleb eventually sold Omega Underground and all its assets to Geeks World Wide, LLC in 2018 and became a staff writer for them for about a year. Finally, Caleb left GWW to begin Knight Edge Media from scratch in November 2019 while finishing his Bachelor’s degree. Knight Edge Media has become a premier website destination for nerdy film and television casting, trailers, reviews, and production updates from the project’s announcement to its final worldwide release. Knight Edge Media has also been known for breaking several exclusive news stories throughout the website’s history.

Throughout his film reporting career, Caleb Williams has been given full press credentials for many nerdy movie and TV conventions, including San Diego Comic-Con, Las Vegas CinemaCon, and Phoenix Fan Fusion. He also has early press access to many upcoming streaming projects for review on Knight Edge Media.

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