Camp Half-Blood relocated to San Diego Thursday, bringing a slew of announcements about Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
The cast and showrunners of the Disney+ series appeared at Comic-Con for a panel that included news about the coming second season, as well as a key piece of casting for season three, which the streamer ordered shortly after filming on season two wrapped earlier in the year.
For starters, Percy Jackson author and series co-creator/executive producer Rick Riordan announced in a video message that season two, based on Riordan’s second Percy Jackson book, The Sea of Monsters, will premiere Dec. 10. The session also featured the debut of a teaser trailer for the coming season, including the first look at Daniel Diemer as Tyson, the cyclops who befriends Percy (Walker Scobell), and a very brief glimpse at a chariot race at camp. Watch it below.
Executive producer Craig Silverstein said of the race, “The chariot track is the most amazing set I’ve been on in my whole career. It’s going to be a sequence that blows you guys away because it blew me away.”
Moderator Timothy Simons, who guest stars as Tantalus in season two, joked that “I’ve never been on anything that had a fire budget.”
Riordan also announced — to screams from the crowd in Hall H — that the show has found actors to play the fan-favorite roles of Nico and Bianca di Angelo, two young demigods who will become part of the story in the third season. Levi Chrisopulos will play Nico and be a series regular, and Olive Abercrombie will have a recurring role as Bianca. Chrisopulos has appeared on stage in a touring production of Peter Pan and guest-starred on CBS’ FBI in 2024. Abercrombie’s TV credits include Mayfair Witches and Outer Range.
Production on season three, which is based on The Titan’s Curse, is slated to begin soon.
Along with Scobell and Diemer, the Comic-Con panel featured castmembers Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell and Dior Goodjohn and executive producers Jonathan E. Steinberg, Dan Shotz and Silverstein.
Steinberg and Shotz are the showrunners of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. They executive produce season two with Silverstein, Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.