Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson has found his fellow heroes. Aryan Simhadri (Disney’s Spin) and Leah Sava Jeffries (Empire) will play Percy’s friends Grover Underwood and Annabeth Chase, respectively, in the upcoming Disney+ original series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Simhadri and Jeffries will star alongside Walker Scobell, who was recently announced to play the titular character in …

Disney+ has ordered Percy Jackson and the Olympians, an epic adventure series based on — and closely aligned with — Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series (check prices at Amazon) by award-winning author Rick Riordan with more than 180 million books in print globally. You can watch Riordan’s announcement below. Riordan and Jon Steinberg (Black Sails, …