Percy Jackson and the Olympians star Walker Scobell had a similar experience on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast with his contact with original Percy Jackson films' star Logan Lerman Scobell took over the role in the reboot of the Rick Riordan franchise for the Disney+ series thirteen years after the 20th Century Studios film[...]
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Variety chronicled the journey as its premiere looms closer.
PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS – Disney: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & stars Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth, and Aryan Simhadri as Grover (Disney)
"After the movie experience, I basically wrote off Hollywood for a long, long time," Riordan said[...]
In this case, a fighter pilot Adam Reed (Reynolds), travels back in time to meet his younger 12-year old self (Walker Scobell) and tries to prevent the technology from ever existing since his father (Mark Ruffalo) is the renowned scientist behind the research.
Walker Scobell & Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project (2022) Image courtesy of[...]