NYCC’s Percy Jackson panel hyped up one crucial thing the movies lacked

At this year’s New York Comic Con, the creators of the upcoming Percy Jackson show on Disney Plus once again had a comforting reminder for fans of the book series: unlike the infamous 2011 movie, author Rick Riordan and his wife Becky were heavily involved in the production from the very beginning.

“Right from the beginning, this has been as much about a partnership, a collaboration, a relationship to make sure that everyone who comes to work on the show knows this is a family business,” said executive producer and showrunner John Steinberg. “This is a story that was hatched from a very personal place. As big as it is and as complicated and as many moving pieces… that’s always where its heart is going to be.”

“John and I got to sit with Rick and Becky and just be in a bubble,” said executive producer Dan Shotz. “We got to build this with the guy. He was involved in the whole process. He was with us in the writer’s room, in casting, on set. Becky and Rick lived in Vancouver most of the time during this year. It was a real pleasure and it just made a huge difference.”

All the panelists present were very excited about the details. Production designer Dan Hannah spoke to making the world of Camp Half-Blood real and exciting (“It was a fun place to hang out,” added director James Bobin) and most importantly real for the cast of the show.

“We were able to put it together as something you could go and experience. Especially for our actors, it was critical to take them into the world,” explained Hannah.

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In order to obtain the Camp Half-Blood iconic orange You can also read more about the benefits of usingTrish Monoghan, a costume designer at the time, says that wardrobe tried 20 shades of orange during pre-production.

“We had to find a shirt that would work outside in the sunlight, under a gray sky, in a forest, in an interior shot as well,” she explained. “We had to end up dyeing over 350 T-shirts in basically almost like a witch’s cauldron… you could only fit 19 t-shirts at a time.”

The screen printing was done after the dyeing of the 19 batches. thenThey can be washed again. Monaghan’s team was so determined to get every detail right that they even personalized the shirts based on the cabin of the camper who wore them. For example, the Ares campers had T-shirts with a rougher finish, as they would get into fights. Hephaestus children, meanwhile had dirty fabric and torn sleeves from the forge.

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The panelists were treated to three clips (the third introduced by Riordan) from the show. The first was the first seven minutes of the show, which basically is the first part of the book come to life, right down to Percy’s distinct narration. Walker Scolbell’s narration takes us back to Percy as a child and his encounters with mythical creatures, such as a Pegasus perched on the top of a New York City building. Grover is played by Aryan SIMHARDI. They bond over playing a card-game featuring mythological beings.

Percy, his class, and Mr. C, (Glynnturman), are on a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While they wait for their field trip to end, Turman gives Percy an assignment. There’s anoThe following are some of the ways to get in touch with us.r flashback, as Percy looks up at a statue of Perseus and remembers his mother (Virginia Kull) telling him about the Greek hero. It snaps back to modern day, as Nancy, one of Percy’s most frequent school bullies, teases him; after breaking the tip of his pencil, Percy comes face-to-face with the formidable Mrs. Dowd, who admonishes him. Mr. C hands him a pen — yes, theThe pen will be his sword Riptide. Grover and Percy are eating outside the Met. They discuss the best ways to handle bullies. Percy approaches Nancy, who has thrown a cheese piece at Grover. She falls in a fountain before Percy can even do anything.

The second scene featured a thrilling car chase. Grover sits in the back and tries to explain to Percy about all the monsters he’s been seeing, while Percy’s mom, Sally, drives the car. They end up being chased by a minotaur — a monster The following are some examples of how to use presented a particular challenge to the VFX designers, one that they were very excited to pull off.

“We needed to make sure that [the minotaur] was appropriately scary, but not too scary,” said VFX supervisor Erik Henry. “You can’t be that scary with underpants,” he added, in reference to the minotaur’s tighty-whities.

“We decided to have the minotaur run on all fours as it’s attacking. For us, for me, seeing a bull come at you running on all fours running, is scary.”

The campers’ high-stakes game of capture the Flag was shown as the last video at the panel. These campers, who are demigods in training to become heroes, play capture-the-flag with lances and swords (mauling is not allowed!). A camper informs his teammate, after some fierce group combat, that Percy has a plan. The footage then cuts to Percy flossing — as in, the Fortnite dance, not the dental treatment — on a rock, alone. He proceeds to take a piss, pet a lizard, then lay down on a log… before being ambushed by Ares camp leader Clarisse (Dior Goodjohn) and her cronies.

Clarisse is a fierce foe, a true child of the god of war, and she’s determined to get revenge on Percy. But even though it’s four against one, Percy manages to hold his own as Clarisse chases him down to a river. Just in time, he snaps Clarisse’s special electric spear to help his team capture the flag. Annabeth, played by Leah Jeffries, reveals to him that she had been waiting for him invisibly the entire time. He asks why and she proceeds to push him into the water, which immediately begins to heal his wounds… dun-dun-dun.

The three scenes are all taken directly from the books, and in an intentional way. Steinberg and Shotz along with the rest of team said being true to the book is only part of what they do.

“I think you have two responsibilities,” explained Steinberg. “I think one of them is to try to make sure that if you love these books and if they occupy a very special place in your childhood, in your heart, in your adulthood, you’re going to get what you came from. And you’re going to get to see the things you spent so much time only imagining. At the same time, if that’s all you get […] we didn’t quite do our jobs. So the challenge is how do I surprise you in a way that feels so organic to the rest of the story that it could’ve been there the whole time? I think that is a thing you cannot undertake without Rick or Becky.”