Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV series)

• Walker Scobell as Perseus "Percy" Jackson, a young demigod[3]
• Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, a daughter of Athena who has been training at Camp Half-Blood for five years[4]
• Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Percy's best friend and a satyr who is disguised as a 12-year-old boy[4]

• Virginia Kull as Sally Jackson, Percy's selfless mother[5]
• Glynn Turman as Chiron / Mr. Brunner, a centaur disguised as Percy's Latin teacher.[5] Unlike the books, where the character only pretends to be disabled to disguise himself among humans, the character has a disability in the form of a brace in his leg as a war injury. The creators made this change in order to address disability, though they noted it would be "just a detail" during season 1.[6]
• Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysus / Mr. D, the head of Camp Half-Blood[5]
• Megan Mullally as Alecto / Ms. Dodds, Percy's stern mathematics teacher who serves the god Hades as one of the three Furies[5]
• Timm Sharp as Gabe Ugliano, Sally's husband and Percy's abusive stepfather[5]
• Dior Goodjohn as Clarisse La Rue, a strong-willed daughter of Ares who bullies Percy[7]
• Charlie Bushnell as Luke Castellan, a swordsman who is the counsellor of the Hermes cabin[7]
• Adam Copeland as Ares, the arrogant and daring god of war[8]

• Olivea Morton as Nancy Bobofit, a blunt teacher's pet who relishes tormenting Percy[7]
• Suzanne Cryer as Echidna, the menacing mother of monsters[8]
• Jessica Parker Kennedy as Medusa, a gorgon who lives in solitude[8]
• Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hermes, the messenger of the gods[9]
• Jay Duplass as Hades, the god of the underworld[10]
• Timothy Omundson as Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths[10]
• Lance Reddick as Zeus, the ferocious god of the sky whose thunderbolt has been stolen.[11] This will be Reddick's final television appearance, following his death in March 2023.[12]
• Toby Stephens as Poseidon, Percy's father and god of the sea who is stubborn and impulsive[11]

Additionally, Jason Gray-Stanford has been cast in an undisclosed role[13]

In November 2018, Rick Riordan stated that he believed he would have no creative control over a Disney reboot of the Percy Jackson novel series if it were to happen, much like his experience with the film series with 20th Century Fox.[16] In December 2019, Riordan pitched an adaptation of the novels to the Walt Disney Company,[17] which had acquired Fox in March of that year.[18] By May 2020, a Disney+ series based on Percy Jackson was in the works, with the first season set to adapt the first book in the series, The Lightning Thief.[19] Riordan revealed in March 2021 that searches for the series' directors and cast was underway,[20] with James Bobin was announced as the pilot episode's director in October.[21] Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz were also announced as showrunners in July.[22]

The series was greenlit in January 2022, with Disney Branded Television, 20th Television, and the Gotham Group producing the project. Steinberg, Shotz, Bobin, and Riordan were announced as executive producers alongside Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, Anders Engström, Jet Wilkinson, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, and D. J. Goldberg.[2] At the D23 Expo in September, Anders Engström and Jet Wilkinson were revealed to be executive producing the series as well.[23] The same month, Riordan revealed that Engström would direct the third and fourth episodes while Wilkinson would direct the fifth and sixth.[15] The series was reportedly made with a budget of 12-15 million dollars per episode.[6]

Drafts of the pilot episode were being reviewed by March 2021.[20] In April 2021, it was announced that Steinberg would serve as co-writer and executive producer of the pilot alongside Riordan.[24] The same day, Monica Owusu-Breen, Daphne Olive, Stewart Strandberg, Zoë Neary, Joe Tracz, and Xavier Stiles joined as writers.[22] Each season of the series will adapt one installment of the book series, with the first season being an adaptation of The Lightning Thief.[20] There are also plans to adapt additional material within the franchise for the series.[6] In addition to writing the pilot, Riordan and co-showrunner Steinberg created a series bible for the show, as well as planning the plot for the first season and creating ideas for potential future seasons.[22] The first season will consist of eight episodes.[25]

Writing for the second season had begun by March 2023, though Riordan cautioned that it had yet to be greenlit.[26] Plans for future seasons include a further exploration of Chiron's disability.[6]

Preliminary casting began in April 2021.[27] In January 2022, Walker Scobell was cast in the lead role as Percy Jackson, with this being announced in April.[3] The next month, it was announced that Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri would respectively portray Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood, two close friends of Percy.[4] Jeffries' casting received online backlash due to Annabeth not being depicted as Black in the novels, which Riordan condemned as racism.[28] In June, Virginia Kull, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Megan Mullally, and Timm Sharp were announced to be appearing in recurring capacities as Sally Jackson, Chiron, Dionysus, Alecto, and Gabe Ugliano, respectively.[5] The same month, Dior Goodjohn and Charlie Bushnell joined the cast in recurring roles as Clarisse La Rue and Luke Castellan, respectively, while Olivea Morton was announced to portray Nancy Bobofit in a guest role.[7] Adam Copeland was cast in the recurring role of Ares in October, while Suzanne Cryer and Jessica Parker Kennedy were cast in the guest roles of Echidna and Medusa, respectively.[8] In November 2022, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jay Duplass, and Timothy Omundson were announced to guest-star as Hermes, Hades, and Hephaestus, respectively;[9][10] as were Lance Reddick and Toby Stephens in January 2023, announced to portray Zeus and Poseidon, respectively.[11] Jason Gray-Stanford was cast in an undisclosed role in March 2023.[13]

Tish Monaghan serves as the costume designer.[29]

By October 2023, Bear McCreary has been composing the score for the series, after previously working with Steinberg and Shots in the series Human Target, Black Sails and See.[30] Members of the music company Sparks & Shadows, which McCreary was a co-founder of, also worked on the soundtrack.[30]

Principal photography began on June 2, 2022 in Vancouver, British Columbia,[5][21] under the working title Mink Golden,[31] and concluded on February 2, 2023.[32] The series utilized an LED stage powered by Industrial Light & Magic's StageCraft visual effects technology.[33]