{"id":73754,"date":"2024-07-26T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=73754"},"modified":"2024-07-26T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T21:43:53","slug":"disney-casts-daniel-diemer-as-fan-favorite-tyson-in-season-two-of-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/26\/disney-casts-daniel-diemer-as-fan-favorite-tyson-in-season-two-of-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ Casts Daniel Diemer as Fan-Favorite &#8220;Tyson&#8221; in Season Two of &#8220;Percy Jackson and the Olympians&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73755\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-73755 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Percy-Jackson-and-the-Olympians.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Percy-Jackson-and-the-Olympians.webp 720w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Percy-Jackson-and-the-Olympians-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R Daniel Diemer, Walker Scobell) Photo Credit: Disney\/Eric Milner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today, in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (<em>&#8220;Under the Bridge&#8221;<\/em>) will star as fan-favorite cyclops &#8220;Tyson&#8221; in the epic adventure series <em><strong>&#8220;Percy Jackson and the Olympians.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Season two of <em>&#8220;Percy Jackson and the Olympians&#8221;<\/em> is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion&#8217;s best-selling book series titled <em>&#8220;The Sea of Monsters&#8221;<\/em> by award-winning author Rick Riordan. 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&#8217;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.<\/p><div id=\"morty-54733670\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Diemer stars as Tyson &#8211; a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world. Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother\u2026 and that Tyson may have finally found a home.<\/p>\n<p>Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series <em>&#8220;Under the Bridge&#8221;<\/em> based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie <em>&#8220;Thug&#8221;<\/em> opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie <em>&#8220;Supercell&#8221;<\/em> opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film<em> &#8220;Little Brother&#8221;<\/em> opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series <em>&#8220;The Midnight Club&#8221;<\/em> and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature <em>&#8220;The Half Of It&#8221;<\/em> from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of <em>&#8220;Percy Jackson and the Olympians&#8221;<\/em> is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group&#8217;s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group&#8217;s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.<\/p>\n<p>The first season of <em>&#8220;Percy Jackson and the Olympians&#8221;<\/em> is available on Disney+.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1696785484\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Instagram: @DisneyPlus, @PercySeries Facebook: @DisneyPlus TikTok: @DisneyPlus, @percyseries X: @DisneyPlus, @PercySeries Hashtag: #PercyJackson<\/p>\n<p>\r\n      <table id=\"tmdb-pro\">\r\n        <tbody>\r\n          <tr>\r\n            <td class=\"tmdb-pro-poster\" width=\"20%\" rowspan=\"3\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/image.tmdb.org\/t\/p\/w300_and_h450_bestv2\/\/40eFcTzZier3DWLqldsP5VHxeoD.jpg\"><\/td>\r\n            <td>\r\n              <h3><b>Percy Jackson and the Olympians<\/b><\/h3>\r\n            <\/td>\r\n          <\/tr>\r\n          <tr><td><span><b>Network:<\/b> Hulu<\/span><span><b>Genre:<\/b> Action &amp; Adventure<\/span><span><b>Seasons:<\/b> 2<\/span><span><b>Episodes:<\/b> 16<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><h5><b>Overview<\/b><\/h5><p>Percy Jackson is on a dangerous quest. Outrunning monsters and outwitting gods, he must journey across America to return Zeus&#039;s master bolt and stop an all-out war. With the help of his friends Annabeth and Grover, Percy&#039;s journey will lead him closer to the answers he seeks: how to fit into a world where he feels out of place, and who he&#039;s destined to be.<\/p><\/td><\/tr>\r\n        <\/tbody>\r\n      <\/table>  \r\n    <br \/>\n<div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-26535\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoviedb.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25983\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/program-info-provided-by-tmdb.jpg\" alt=\"Powered by TMDB.org\" width=\"250\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/program-info-provided-by-tmdb.jpg 353w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/program-info-provided-by-tmdb-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/program-info-provided-by-tmdb-350x74.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: .4em;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap; font: normal 8pt Arial;\">TV &amp; Movie information has been provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoviedb.org\/\">themoviedb.org<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (&#8220;Under the Bridge&#8221;) will star as fan-favorite cyclops &#8220;Tyson&#8221; in the epic adventure series &#8220;Percy Jackson and the Olympians.&#8221; Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. 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