Disney's Percy Jackson Show Can Still Avoid 1 Major Casting Mistake
The upcoming Percy Jackson & the Olympians Disney+ series should cast all the series’ significant Camp Half-Blood campers now for continuity later in the show. In May 2020, Rick Riordan announced Disney+ is adapting his beloved middle-grade fantasy series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, into a television series. The Adam Project breakout star Walker Scobell will be playing the titular character, a powerful teenage demigod who trains at Camp Half-Blood with other godly children.
Camp Half-Blood and its campers lay at the heart of the book series, which the infamous Percy Jackson movie adaptations completely ignored. When Percy arrives at camp confused and alone, he is greeted with (sometimes tough) love from a new family of demigods and mythological creatures. Some campers are not introduced until far later in the series despite presumably being at camp since Percy arrived. For example, Aphrodite cabin head counselor and head Pegasus equestrian Silena Beauregard, a major character in the final two installments of the five-part series, does not appear in the first book and is only briefly mentioned in passing in the second. Showrunners of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, however, ought to prioritize bringing Camp Half-Blood to life.
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To do this, the Percy Jackson & the Olympians television series should cast important campers in later books now. In the first book, Percy is at camp for all of a week before embarking on a quest, so his narration logically does not make note of every community member he meets. However, showrunners should utilize the freedom of television as a visual medium and have characters like Silena in the
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