‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Finds Its Tyson for Season 2
Season two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians has cast one of its key new roles.
Daniel Diemer will join the Disney+ series as Tyson the cyclops, a fan-favorite character from author Rick Riordan’s quintet of novels. Diemer’s casting was announced Thursday during a panel for the show at Comic-Con.
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Season two of Percy Jackson, based on the second book in the series, The Sea of Monsters, is set to go into production next week in Vancouver. Diemer will be a series regular, joining stars Walker Scobell (Percy), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover).
Tyson is a young cyclops who grew up alone on the streets and finds it tough to survive in the human world. He’s also a child of Poseidon (Toby Stephens) — which means he’s Percy’s half-brother.
In a video for the Comic-Con crowd, Riordan introduced the new addition: “Some of you may know, in The Sea of Monsters, we meet an important new character — a shy, awkward, endearing cyclops. He’s the half-brother to Percy, Tyson. And today, I have the honor of introducing the actor who will be bringing that character to life: Daniel Diemer. He will bring a whole new dimension to Tyson, and it‘s going to be incredible to see him in the second season.”
Diemer also appeared in a video, apparently from the show’s Vancouver stages, noting that he was thrilled and honored to play the character. “You guys are gonna love him,” said Scobell.
Season two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians will follow the young demigod back to Camp Half-Blood a year after the events of season one — and finds his world “turned upside down,” according to the show’s logline. “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’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.”
Diemer is coming off of Hulu’s critically acclaimed limited series Under the Bridge. His credits also include Netflix’s The Midnight Club and feature films The Half of It, Supercell and Little Brother.
Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg created the series, which comes from 20th Television. They executive produce with Dan Shotz, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.
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