Locals spotted 6’5″ Daniel Diemer’s Tyson carrying Walker Scobell’s Percy today in downtown Vancouver for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
Percy Jackson’s half-brother Tyson (a young cyclops) will be introduced in season 2 of the hit Disney+ series, adapted from Rick Riordan’s second book The Sea of Monsters.
Crew dressed a few blocks of West Hastings Street as New York City for this sequence of Leah Sava Jeffries’s Annabeth, Percy Jackson and eventually Tyson, getting into a yellow cab.
This New York cab is operated by the three Gray Sisters, played in the series by Sandra Bernhard as Anger, Kristen Schaal as Tempest and Margaret Cho as Wasp.
Here is the season 2 cast at the Disney’s D23 fan event in August.
Daniel Diemer as Percy’s half-brother Tyson; Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth; Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson; Aryan Simhadri as Grover; Dior Goodjohn as Clarissa; and Charlie Bushnell as Luke.
What’s season 2 about?
New storm rising.
Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell) returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) is changing, he learns he has a cyclops(Daniel Diemer) for a brother, Grover (Aryan Simhadri) 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.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2:
Episodes:
Working title: Mink Golden.
BC filming dates: August 01 2024 – January 30 2025.
Creators:: Rick Riordan, Jon Steinberg.
Showrunners Jon Steinberg, Dan Shotz.
Cast: Walker Scobell, Aryan Simhadri, Leah Sava Jeffries, Daniel Diemer.
Recurring: Virginia Kull, Charlie Bushnell, Dior Goodjohn, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Toby Stephens, Lin Manuel Miranda, Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal, Margaret Cho.
Filming in B.C.:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters is back in the Volume stage at Mammoth Studios in Burnaby and at Camp Half-Blood locations in Langley/Aldergrove and on the Sea to Sky Highway in Squamish.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians season one filmed in B.C. from June 2022 to early February 2023
Related: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Where is Camp Half-Blood Filmed in BC?
Camp Half-Blood Sets:
Camp Half-Blood is the summer camp where young demigods train to combat monsters..
The Dining Hall Pavilion was at the Camp Half-Blood set in Minaty Bay on the Sea to Sky Highway in season one.
It’s been reconstructed on the main Camp Half-Blood set in Langley/Aldergrove for season 2.
Fans spotted season 2 crew near the Camp Half-Blood location in Minaty Bay in the first few days of production.
PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS season 2 Sea of Monsters at Minaty Bay on the Sea to Sky Highway?
— YVRShoots Tweets (@yvrshootstweets) August 6, 2024
Minatry Bay is one of the Camp Half-Blood locations. #PercyJackson
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