The second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians hasn’t started filming yet, but the San Diego Comic-Con panel revealed one big piece of casting news: Daniel Diemer (The Half of It) will join the cast as Percy’s cyclops half-brother Tyson. The character was previously played by Douglas Smith in the critically-panned 2013 adaptation of The Sea of Monsters. Hopefully the CG has come a long way in the more-than 10 years since!
In the books, Percy (played by Walker Scobell int he show) finds out that while his father Poseidon hasn’t had any other kids with mortals… he did have a kid with a nature spirit (which is totally allowed), and that resulted in Tyson the cyclops. Percy first meets Tyson at school, and is totally unaware of their connection (or the fact that he is, indeed, a cyclops).
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is based on Rick Riordan’s best-selling book series of the same name. It takes place in a world where the Greek gods are real and continue to have children with mortals. Percy is one such half-blood, a son of Poseidon. There are now several spinoffs series, and a whole host of other books set in the world. In 2011, the first book was adapted into a movie starring Logan Lerman. Fans did not like it. (And neither did Riordan).
This new show gives the story another chance chance. Season 2 is set to follow the second book, The Sea of Monsters. It starts shooting next week.
The first season of Percy Jackson is available to stream on Disney Plus.
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