‘Percy Jackson And The Olympians’: Aryan Simhadri & Leah Sava Jeffries Join Walker Scobell In Disney+ Series
deadline.comPercy Jackson has found his fellow heroes. Aryan Simhadri (Disney’s Spin) and Leah Sava Jeffries (Empire) have been tapped to star alongside Walker Scobell in Disney+s Percy Jackson and the Olympians.Simhadri and Jeffries will play Percy’s friends Grover and Annabeth, respectively.
Produced by 20th Television Percy Jackson and the Olympians will start production soon in Vancouver.Based on Rick Riordan’s best-selling book series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson (Scobell), who’s just coming to terms 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 (Sava, Percy must embark on an adventure of a lifetime to find it and restore order to Olympus.
Simhadri’s Grover Underwood is satyr, half boy and half goat, disguised as a 12 year old boy. Grover cares deeply about others and will always choose what is best for them, sometimes at his own expense.
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