‘Percy Jackson’ is Finally Getting a Disney+ Series

Percy Jackson is officially getting a live-action series at Disney+. On Thursday afternoon, franchise author Rick Riordan revealed that the live-action series will cover the same storyline as the beloved books, with the first season following the plot of The Lightning Thief.

In a video posted to Twitter this afternoon, Riordan and his wife Becky made an “important announcement” about the future of the Percy Jackson franchise. “After a lot of hard work and a lot of support from you guys, Percy Jackson is coming to Disney+,” revealed the author. “Yes! Woo hoo!”

The Riordans followed up with a brief note explaining exactly what fans should expect. “For the past decade, you’ve worked hard to champion a faithful on-screen adaptation of Percy Jackson’s world,” they told fans. “Some of you even suggested it would be a great series for Disney+. We couldn’t agree more!”

The duo explained that while the Percy Jackson Disney Plus project is still in its early stages, it will be “a live-action series of the highest quality,” and they will both be intimately involved. The Percy Jackson series will follow a similar structure to the five-book series, with the first season tackling Riordan’s 2005 Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief.

Percy Jackson has had a long road from page to screen. In 2010, Chris Columbus adapted the first book into a film, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, starring Logan Lerman, but it was panned by critics and audiences alike (it has a 49% Rotten Tomatoes critic score and a 53% audience rating). Three years later, 20th Century Fox tried again with Riordan’s second novel, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, and were met with even worse reviews.

In the years since, fans have begged for another live-action Percy Jackson adaptation, but their calls were met with silence — until now. As it turns out, all it took was an entertainment demigod to get a Percy Jackson series.

Where to stream Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief