Percy Jackson Creators on Plans for Season 2 and BEYOND (Exclusive)

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00:00 Percy Jackson

00:02 We've been expecting you

00:05 What was the most important thing for you to to get right about this adaptation?

00:09 It is a franchise a series a story that really lives in its tone and its sense of humor in its

00:16 sentimentality and I think finding a way to

00:18 be able to capture that tone and

00:20 be able to move the story around when we needed to to get it to fit a new medium was a

00:25 conversation with Rick and Becky and and making sure that there was no part of that translation that was going to

00:31 Sound false notes for them or make it feel like this wasn't the story that they brought to the table

00:37 It needed to have its heart and soul in the right place. So making sure that was an order was really important

00:42 Percy the stories I have told you about great gods and monsters

00:49 They are real. It's such a timeless story a story about not fitting and about how difficult it is to

00:55 Watch someone you love not fit in addition to being that person is the most universal

01:00 Experience talking to Walker and everyone seems to say this is like he is Percy Jackson

01:06 What did you see in him when you first met with him or saw his audition?

01:10 What was that process like?

01:11 We first saw him and I give I give John a lot of credit because he was he was the one who first saw his

01:16 Tape and said look at this kid. There was a rawness

01:19 There was an honesty that we didn't find anywhere else like there was just something so specific about him that you just believed every word

01:26 He said and as we got to know him more as we got to know his parents as we got to know

01:31 Where he comes from and how much he connected to these books

01:33 I mean he had read them six times since third grade and he was just so connected to this and actually we even heard that he

01:40 Had mentioned like way early that this was his dream role when he was a kid

01:44 So there was a film adaptation that got a lot of criticism from fans of the books going into this

01:50 What were some key points that you wanted to follow to make sure that didn't happen again?

01:54 The biggest choice that was made early on

01:57 That I think was just a different choice than the movies made was to cast the kids as kids

02:01 To really embrace the fact that this is a story about three people who are still children

02:07 And who are just kind of moving into that phase in their life when they are

02:13 Emerging from that filter I guess where you know that you live in as in childhood

02:17 It comes with a whole raft of complications when you make that choice, but it was important once you're on that path

02:23 I think a lot of other things all start to come into focus in terms of what kind of story you're telling and who it's

02:27 For what's the plan because there are quite a few books. What is the overall plan? What is the dream here?

02:32 We talked about it. You know it was the goal has always been sort of a book a season going forward

02:38 We're in this moment right now putting this out there for us with the Riordan's has been a four-year process

02:43 To get this here through kovat and everything else that's taken place over these last four years

02:48 But it's pretty exciting just to launch this and see how people respond to it

02:53 And and the hope is to make many more of these I love like you know conventions

02:58 I feel like is where you can really get a sense of what the fandom is and I think it was d23

03:02 That was the first moment. Yeah, how cool is it to just see how many fans are so devoted to this?

03:07 It's the connection people have to this story is unlike anything else. I've ever seen it's one thing to be a fan of a story

03:14 It's another thing to feel like that story is a part of who you are

03:18 And a part of why you started reading and a part of coming to terms with the things that make you different than the other

03:23 Kids around you I think that creates a really strong bond

03:26 And you see it the moment you see these crowds of people who are just dying to have this become real in a new way

03:32 It's it's big deal. Maybe I won't even need sword

03:35 I'm gonna need a sword

03:38 I'm gonna need a sword

03:41 You

03:43 (explosion)

03:45 ♪ I can't wait to die ♪

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