Lin-Manuel Miranda has joined the cast of the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series on the Disney+ service.
The “Hamilton” and “In the Heights” creator will play the Greek god Hermes in the adaptation of author Rick Riordan’s popular young adult novels about Greek mythology.
Walker Scobell (“The Adam Project”) stars as twelve-year-old Percy Jackson who discovers that he is the son of the Greek god Poseidon and begins training to become a hero at Camp Half-Blood – a special training camp for demigods.
Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri play Percy’s best friends, Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood. Virginia Kull, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Megan Mullally, Timm Sharp, Dior Goodjohn and Charlie Bushnell co-star.
Filming on the series began in Vancouver in June and Riordan co-wrote the pilot with Jon Steinberg, while James Bobin directs.
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