After years of waiting, the series based on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians begins this week for those with a Disney+ subscription and/or Hulu subscription. It's been a long time coming for many fans of the fantasy books to see 12-year-old Percy find out he is the son of Poseidon, learn that Greek mythology is alive all around him, and eventually set out on an epic quest. Now that it’s here, the question that comes next is whether the series will finally show Percy’s full journey across multiple seasons, and the producers opened up about the show's future.
As one can imagine, the answer to that question has a lot to do with whether audiences tune into the series when it premieres on Wednesday, December 20 on the 2023 TV schedule and continue to for the subsequent weeks new episodes drop on Disney+ and Hulu. When CinemaBlend spoke to Percy Jackson producers Jon Steinberg and Dan Shotz, we discussed whether making a series that stars growing teens changes the haste with which the series is being planned further. Here’s what Steinberg had to say:
