{"id":190872,"date":"2025-12-19T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:32:08","slug":"how-percy-jackson-avoids-stranger-things-biggest-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190872\/","title":{"rendered":"How Percy Jackson Avoids Stranger Things’ Biggest Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Disney\/David Bukach<\/p>\n

Since the show’s 2016 premiere, the “Stranger Things” kids have grown up into spunky 17-year-olds played by actors who are \u2014 in some cases, very clearly \u2014 in their\u00a0early-to-mid 20s.<\/p>\n

In theory, the same predicament could await the teen cast members of another popular fantasy-adventure streaming saga, Disney+’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” So, partially to prevent the march of time from messing with the show’s fictional integrity, the team behind “Percy” filmed Seasons 2 and 3 just about back-to-back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“One thing I did not fully appreciate when we started this whole process is how long a season of television takes to produce, especially big television like this,” Rick Riordan, executive producer and author of the original “Percy Jackson” novels,\u00a0told TheWrap<\/a>. “I naively thought, ‘Yeah, we’ll hire the kids of the right age, and we’ll do a season a year, no problem.’ In reality, that’s very difficult to do for a number of reasons.”<\/p>\n

After Season 1 hit Disney+ in 2023, fans waited two years for\u00a0Season 2 of “Percy Jackson.”<\/a> With\u00a0“Percy Jackson” Season 3<\/a> already in production, we can expect a relatively quick turnaround for the next set of episodes \u2014 a change of pace for any viewers accustomed to waiting three years for a new “Stranger Things” season.<\/p>\n

“[If we’re renewed for] Season 4 next year, I’ll be the same age Logan [Lerman] was [when he starred in] the first [Percy Jackson] movie<\/a>, you know?” said\u00a016-year-old Walker Scobell,\u00a0when asked if he worries about aging faster than his character, Percy.\u00a0“So, I think we’re still behind the movies.”<\/p>\n


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