Percy Jackson casts an edgy WWE star as the God of War

June 2024 · 2 minute read

The Disney Plus version of the upcoming collection Percy Jackson and the Olympians is chugging alongside, and recently added three new actors to its cast.

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Variety is reporting that Suzanne Cryer, Adam Copeland, and Jessica Parker Kennedy have all been added to the display, which is in keeping with a chain of younger adult novels via Rick Riordan.

Copeland has a lovely fascinating pedigree. He’s a Canadian skilled wrestler for the WWE, additionally recognized as The Edge, who took an extended ruin because of some well being issues however got here back to the squared circle in 2020. He’s additionally been in presentations like Vikings, The Flash, and Haven, and he’s appeared in the motion pictures Interrogation and Money Plane.

Copeland will play Ares, the God of War. His persona is “handsome in a wicked means and conceited, in spite of now not at all times being the sharpest device in the shed. He loves struggle and acts as an agent of chaos anywhere he is going.”

Cryer’s persona is called Echidna – the Mother of Monsters. She’s described as “dangerous, intimidating, and strangely maternal. She enjoys her task of difficult heroes and can test Percy’s religion in the gods.”

Cryer seemed in the brief lived ABC sitcom Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place, and the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. Kennedy will play the famous Medusa on the display. She’s appeared as Nora West-Allen in The Flash and the motion pictures 50/50, The Perfect Guy, and Gemini.

In September, Disney released a teaser. It appears to be like lovely good.

Here’s the logline for the series:

“Percy Jackson and the Olympians tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old trendy demigod, Percy Jackson (Scobell), who’s simply coming to terms along with his newfound divine powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. With help from his friends Grover (Simhadri) and Annabeth (Jeffries), Percy should embark on an journey of a life-time to search out it and restore order to Olympus.”

Walker Scobell performs the titular persona, and the display will premiere someday next year. We’ll stay you posted as things broaden.

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