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Logan Lerman, who starred arsenic Percy Jackson successful the archetypal Percy Jackson films, doesn't deliberation it makes consciousness for him to look successful the upcoming Disney+ Percy Jackson series. Find retired why.
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There are nary tridents successful Logan Lerman's future.
The actor, who played demigod Percy Jackson successful 2010's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and its 2013 sequel Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, isn't truthful keen connected making an quality connected the upcoming Percy Jackson Disney+ series.
It's not that Logan isn't interested, necessarily—he conscionable doesn't truly deliberation it makes immoderate sense.
"I get radical asking maine each the clip if I'm gonna play Poseidon, and I'm like, 'Am I aged capable to play Poseidon?'" Logan pondered to Esquire Jan. 12. "I don't deliberation I'm aged capable for that one! I wouldn't formed maine successful that relation if I was portion of the originative team."
Alright, let's bash the math.
Logan turns 31 connected Jan. 19 and Disney+ has revealed that Percy, played by Walker Scobell, volition beryllium 12 years aged successful the caller series.
So, yeah, it mightiness beryllium a bit of a stretch—but this is simply a communicative astir Greek mythology, mysterious underworlds and warring forces of eternal darkness, aft all! Surely we tin suspend our corporate content for the involvement of a Logan Lerman return!
Alas, Logan revealed that helium hasn't adjacent been approached successful the archetypal place, saying, "No one's deed maine up astir it."
"There's not a concealed that's waiting to beryllium announced oregon thing similar that," Logan continued. "I bash get asked a batch astir it, and I hatred to disappoint and beryllium like, 'No, I don't cognize thing and I'm not involved,' but that's the truth. I don't cognize thing astir it."
Despite his deficiency of involvement, Logan said there's inactive plentifulness of crushed to beryllium optimistic.
"I bash cognize is that [Percy Jackson author] Rick Riordan is doing it, and that's beauteous chill for the fans of the Percy Jackson series," helium said. "I'm excited for those fans to get that mentation of the communicative told and spot what they bash with this."
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Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians volition travel Percy "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."
Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri play Percy's comrades Annabeth and Grover, respectively.
The series—which besides stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Megan Mullally, Jason Mantzoukas and Glynn Turman—is expected to deed Disney+ aboriginal this year.
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