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Lin-Manuel Miranda is trading successful Hamilton for Hermes.
The writer and prima of the Broadway juggernaut has joined the formed of the upcoming Disney+ bid Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Miranda volition beryllium playing Greek deity Hermes, arsenic announced by Percy Jackson writer Rick Riordan on Instagram Nov. 7.
"Friends, delight invited our newest immortal successful the Olympian pantheon," Riordan wrote alongside a photograph of Mirandaa lasting adjacent to a director's seat with his character's sanction emblazoned, "the deity of travelers, gamblers, merchants, thieves, messengers, and each others who marque their lives connected the road—the 1 and lone Hermes, different known arsenic @lin_manuel!"
In the Percy Jackson publication series, which encompasses 5 novels successful full written by Riordan, Hermes archetypal appears successful 2006's The Sea of Monsters.
The books were primitively adapted into a movie bid starring Logan Lerman as Percy. In the 2013 movie adaptation of The Sea of Monsters, Hermes was played by Nathan Fillion.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians finds The Adam Project prima Walker Scobell taking implicit the titular role.
The escapade bid volition find the 12-year-old modern demigod "who's conscionable coming to presumption with his newfound supernatural powers erstwhile the entity deity Zeus accuses him of stealing his maestro lightning bolt," according to the series' description. "Now Percy indispensable trek crossed America to find it and reconstruct bid to Olympus."
He is joined by Empire star Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri, who play Annabeth and Grover, respectively.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians—which will besides diagnostic appearances from Megan Mullally, Jason Mantzoukas and Glynn Turman—is expected to deed Disney+ successful aboriginal 2024.
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