The third season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians is fast approaching, and at Disney’s D23 convention in Anaheim, California, last weekend, we got a glimpse of what’s to come as the cast answered fan questions during a panel discussion.
Earlier during Disney’s D23 Entertainment Showcase, the show got a fresh, new trailer for November’s third season. Walker Scobell, who plays the title character of Percy Jackson, was joined on stage by Ming-Na Wen (Hera) and Andra Day (Athena) to present the new trailer, which showed Percy fighting underwater and in arenas as a titan emerges.
After the ill-fated, critically panned movies released in the 2010s made it only to the second book in Rick Riordan’s series, the Disney Plus original will be the first time The Titan’s Curse has gotten an adaptation. It follows Percy and his Camp Half-Blood crew on their mission to rescue the goddess Artemis (played by Dafne Keen).
“Season 3 is the season where some people get what they deserve,” Scobell said during Saturday’s panel. There will also be a lot of improv in season 3, Scobell said, with the cast now close enough to play off each other like siblings bantering (which they did, all panel long, arguing over who is the most powerful).
Tamara Smart, who plays Thalia, said scenes exploring the past and Olympus were her favorites to shoot. “Season 3 is the season where women run it,” she said.
“It’s great to play a powerful, confident woman,” Smart added. “She’s 100% angry, 100% sad, 100% yelling at Percy.” (She added that after every single take where she was forced to yell at Scobell, she apologized to him.)
Keen wasn’t allowed to tease much from the upcoming season, but said the newcomers to the show had a huntress camp where they all got to train together, learn as a pack and master archery.
“Love and loss inform all decisions,” she said of Season 3.
Saara Chaudry said bringing Zoë Nightshade to life in the new season “has been the absolute privilege of my life.”
“Season 3 is the season where the stars align,” Chaudry added.
Dan Shotz, a showrunner, writer and executive producer, had some more detailed hints about the upcoming season.
“We have this great source material, and we get to dive a lot deeper… You’re going to see all these great things you love from this book, but so much more,” he said. “We cannot have a season of this show without Annabeth.”
Shotz said we will meet all the gods this season, as well as get to see the junkyard of the gods.
But not everyone makes it out alive, executive producer Jonathan Steinberg said.
“I’m excited for everyone to go on that ride shown in the trailer,” Steinberg said. “The trailer doesn’t lie.”
The eight-episode season streams on Nov. 20 on Disney Plus.