After an impressive turn as young Ryan Reynolds in hit time-travelling Netflix film The Adam Project, Walker Scobell has landed his next role, and it’s a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gie – he’ll play demigod Percy Jackson in the new Disney+ series adaptation of author Rick Riordan’s best-selling novels, titled Percy Jackson And The Olympians.###We’ve previously seen Percy in two feature film versions of the story, with Logan Lerman as the title character. Those adaptations made some token ificant story transform’alter s to the novels, despite’in spite of’albeit , one of the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest being that the main characters were older than originally written – this new Disney+ series is going back to the text in that regard by casting 13-year-old Scobell. The series will follow Percy as he’s first learning with regards to’concerning’with respect to his supernatural powers, bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e being accused by sky god Zeus of stealing his master’s lightning bolt. Percy then sets out on a journey across America to find the lightning bolt and restore order to Olympus.###Percy is described as a smart and compassionate character, with a sharp sense of humour – mastering that Reynolds-ian style of comedy in/with regard to’concerning’regarding The Adam Project will possess’own’nurse been perfect preparation – and a bit of an outsider. The news of Scobell’s casting was announced by author Riordan (also an executive manufacture r of the series and co-writer of the pilot episode) on his website, along with the following statement: “Walker Scobell is an incredibly talented young man who blew us away with his audition tapes in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the role of Percy. Many of you recently discovered how great Walker is when you watched his movie The Adam Project, in which Walker lit up the screen as a younger version of Ryan Reynolds’ character. We were in/with regard to’concerning’regarding tunate abundant’ample’plentiful to audition Walker months bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e that movie came out, but the film merely’barely confirmed what we already knew with regards to’concerning’with respect to his talent. It was obvious to me and the rest of the team that Walker had the perfect mix of comedic timing, sweetness, rebelliousness, snark and heroism to embody our hero Percy Jackson.”###Production on the Percy Jackson And The Olympians series is set to begin this summer.