Lin-Manuel Miranda To Appear in Percy Jackson Series
We’ve got some exciting news for Lin-Manuel Miranda and Percy Jackson fans alike! Disney+ took to Twitter today to announce that Manuel will be joining the cast of the upcoming series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. He will be playing the Greek god Hermes in the series!
A message from the messenger god himself: @Lin_Manuel Miranda is Hermes in #PercyJackson and the Olympians, an Original series coming to #DisneyPlus! pic.twitter.com/ncXp0Rl8Un
— Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) November 7, 2022
Miranda, who is best known as the creator of Broadway sensation Hamilton, has also previously worked with Disney on Mary Poppins Returns and Encanto.
Source: Disney Publishing
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is the latest incarnation of of author Rick Riordan’s popular YA series about Greek mythology. If you’ve been following along with MickeyBlog you may have seen previous casting announcements including Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson. Percy is the son of Greek god Poseidon and begins training to become a hero at Camp Half Blood (which is a special training camp for demigods.) Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri play Percy’s best friends, Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood.
Other cast members include Virginia Kull as Percy’s mom Sally; Glynn Turman as the centaur Chiron; Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysus, the Greek god of wine; Megan Mullally as the Fury Alecto; Timm Sharp as Percy’s stepfather Gabe Ugliano; Dior Goodjohn as Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares, the Greek god of war; and Charlie Bushnell as Luke, the son of Miranda’s Hermes.
In addition to penning the original YA series of books, Riordan also co-wrote the pilot for the series with Jon Steinberg. James Bobin is directing the series which is produced by Dan Shotz, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, D.J Goldberg and Riordan’s wife Rebecca Riordan.
Below is a first look at the trailer for Percy Jackson which was first shared during this year’s D23 Expo.
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Source: Variety
