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‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Season 2 Tease, Gray Sisters Cast

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians has begun filming its second season, however its stars took a pause to seem at Disney’s D23 fan occasion Saturday — the place they revealed a couple of new actors will likely be becoming a member of the solid.

Walker Scobell, Aryan Simhadri and Leah Sava Jeffries appeared on stage alongside fellow collection regulars Charlie Bushnell and Dior Goodjohn and new castmember Daniel Diemer, who will play Tyson the cyclops in season two. The solid supplied a short teaser for the approaching season (watch it beneath) — together with Percy (Scobell) taking the reins of a chariot — and introduced some additions to the solid.

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Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal and Margaret Cho will visitor star because the Grey Sisters, who run a taxi service (also called the Chariot of Damnation) and share one eye and one tooth between them. Bernhard will play Anger, who’s accountable for accumulating fares and is impatient to get her flip utilizing the attention. Schaal will play Tempest, who at the moment has the attention and makes use of it to observe the heroes, learn their futures — and tease them about their social lives. Cho performs Wasp, the principle driver of the taxi who takes the demigods on a wild experience to Camp Half-Blood.

Season two of the present relies on The Sea of Monsters, the second e-book in creator (and collection co-creator/govt producer) Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson collection. Percy returns to Camp Half-Blood a yr after the occasions of season one to search out his world turned the other way up. His friendship with Annabeth (Jeffries) is altering, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover (Simhadri) has gone lacking, and camp is underneath siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set issues proper will take him off the map and into the lethal Sea of Monsters, the place a secret destiny awaits him.

Riordan govt produces season two with showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz,Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, 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.

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‘Percy Jackson’ Season 2 Casts Daniel Diemer as Tyson

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Season two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians has solid considered one of its key new roles.

Daniel Diemer will be part of the Disney+ sequence as Tyson the cyclops, a fan-favorite character from creator Rick Riordan’s quintet of novels. Diemer’s casting was introduced Thursday throughout a panel for the present at Comedian-Con.

Season two of Percy Jackson, primarily based on the second guide within the sequence, The Sea of Monsters, is about to enter manufacturing subsequent week in Vancouver. Diemer will probably be a sequence common, becoming a member of stars Walker Scobell (Percy), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover).

Tyson is a younger cyclops who grew up alone on the streets and finds it powerful to outlive within the human world. He’s additionally a toddler of Poseidon (Toby Stephens) — which implies he’s Percy’s half-brother.

In a video for the Comedian-Con crowd, Riordan launched the brand new addition: “A few of it’s possible you’ll know, in The Sea of Monsters, we meet an essential new character — a shy, awkward, endearing cyclops. He’s the half-brother to Percy, Tyson. And at the moment, I’ve the respect of introducing the actor who will probably be bringing that character to life: Daniel Diemer. He’ll deliver an entire new dimension to Tyson, and it‘s going to be unimaginable to see him within the second season.”

Diemer additionally appeared in a video, apparently from the present’s Vancouver phases, noting that he was thrilled and honored to play the character. “You guys are gonna love him,” mentioned Scobell.

Season two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians will observe the younger demigod again to Camp Half-Blood a 12 months after the occasions of season one — and finds his world “turned the wrong way up,” in line with the present’s logline. “His friendship with Annabeth is altering, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone lacking, and camp is below siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set issues proper will take him off the map and into the lethal Sea of Monsters, the place a secret destiny awaits the son of Poseidon.”

Diemer is coming off of Hulu’s critically acclaimed restricted sequence Underneath the Bridge. His credit additionally embrace Netflix’s The Midnight Membership and have movies The Half of It, Supercell and Little Brother.

Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg created the sequence, which comes from twentieth Tv. They government produce with Dan Shotz, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, 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.