The first season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, adapted from the YA fantasy series by Rick Riordan, premiered in December of 2023. The second season will air this upcoming December, which means fans will be waiting two years between new episodes. That's a long time, but Disney is trying to make sure that viewers don't have to wait that long again. They renewed the show for a third season earlier this year, and now we know when shooting will begin. "We go up in July for bootcamp," star Aryan Simhadri (Grover) recently told Screenrant.
That means cameras will start rolling in just a couple of months! If we're lucky, they could be done or almost done with filming season 3 by the time season 2 starts airing. At a time when even hit shows take forever to produce new episodes, it's good to see Disney being proactive and looking ahead.
The second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians will take us back to Camp Half-Blood, where Greek demigods socialize with their own kind. The new season will adapt the second book in Riordan's series, The Sea of Monsters, where Grover gets kidnapped and his friends Percy (Walker Scobell) and Annabeth (Leah Jeffries) try to find him. In the third book, Titan's Curse, it's Annabeth's turn to get kidnapped, hence these quips from the actors:
"Walker Scobell: "This is probably my favorite season, probably will be my favorite season to shoot."
Leah Jeffries: "Of course it's their favorite season because I'm not there."
Scobell: "That's exactly what I was about to say.""
After season 3, there are two more books in Riordan's original Percy Jackson pentalogy to adapt: The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian. Although if Disney wants to keep going after that, there are plenty of sequels and spinoffs to consider.
Again, I'm mostly just happen that Disney is committing to getting the show out in a timely manner. Walker Scobell remembered learning about season 3's early renewal in the midst of work on season 2. "I was doing ADR, I was in the middle of doing ADR for season two," he said (ADR stands for Automatic Dialogue Replacement, where actors go in and rerecord lines). "When [showrunner Dan Shotz] came in and was like, 'By the way, we're doing season three,' in the middle of it. It was crazy."
We don't have an exact release date for season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians as of yet, but we know it's starting in December.
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