Daniel Diemer (Under the Bridge) has joined the cast of Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 in the key role of Tyson.
Tyson, the Cyclops, is a beloved character from Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson novels. Diemer’s casting was the big announcement coming out of the Percy Jackson panel at San Diego Comic-Con.
The second season of the Disney+ series will focus on Riordan’s second Percy novel titled The Sea of Monsters.Production will commence next week in Vancouver. Diemer will be a series regular alongside Walker Scobell (Percy), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth), and Aryan Simhadri (Grover).
Tyson is the half-brother to Percy Jackson. Walker Scobell, Percy Jackson himself, told the Comic-Con crowd that they will love him.
The official logline for Percy Jackson Season 2:
“In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.”
Other quick hits from the Percy Jackson panel at San Diego Comic-Con:
Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg created the series, which comes from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television. They executive produce with Dan Shotz, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler, and Sarah Watson.
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