Percy Jackson is coming to Fortnite. The favored sequence, based mostly on the novels by Rick Riordan and now streaming on Disney+, was simply introduced to be getting its very personal Fortnite Island on December 9.
Revealed on stage at CCXP25 in Brazil, Percy Jackson: Siege of Monsters will permit gamers to “embark on an genuine Percy Jackson journey throughout an island map impressed by Camp Half-Blood – the earthly sanctuary and coaching facility for the youngsters of mortals and Greek gods. As newly arrived demigods, gamers should uncover the id of their godly dad or mum, acquire new divine powers, and ally with their fellow demigods for a climactic battle towards Scylla and Charybdis on the Sea of Monsters.”
Gamers will have the ability to meet varied characters from the favored tales, rendered within the likenesses of the actors from the streaming sequence, together with Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood, and “full a number of aspect quests” and different actions “impressed by the primary two seasons of the present.”
I lately spoke with the celebrities and producers of the present about bringing some fan-favorite storylines to Fortnite. Walker Scobell, who performs Percy on the sequence, and co-star Aryan Simhadri (Grover) had been begging producers to get their characters into Fortnite “since day one.”
“I am simply excited to be the man from Fortnite,” says Scobell. “That is what I need individuals to name me. If that is the one factor I am ever remembered for, I am high-quality with that. Percy Jackson? No, he is the man from Fortnite.”
Sequence Govt Producer and Co-showrunner Dan Shotz, who offered a sneak peak of the Fortnite island at CCXP, says bringing Percy Jackson to the sport concerned a variety of shifting items. “We’ve labored instantly with Disney to construct a whole world inside Fortnite,” Shotz says. “You are going to get to see unimaginable monsters. You get to combat the Minotaur, you get to have a boss battle with Scylla and Charybdis, and also you additionally simply get to hang around with the gang from Percy Jackson. It is fairly epic.”
Percy Jackson: Siege of Monsters
Dior Goodjohn, who performs Clarisse on the present, agrees: “It is actually, actually sick. You sort of know the magnitude of what you are doing after they put you in a online game or whenever you get a doll fabricated from you. That is insane that that is actual life for all of us proper now. It is loopy.”
Percy Jackson Creator Rick Riordan says it was vital to adapt his tales for a youthful, trendy viewers. “I can’t inform you what number of years the followers have been asking me, ‘When are we going to get a Percy Jackson immersive recreation?’” Riordan says. “I (performed) my share of World of Warcraft once I was youthful, (so) I get it. I completely get it.”
Leah Sava Jeffries, who portrays Annabeth, says she used to play Fortnite however intends to leap again in now that she and her co-stars are featured within the recreation. “That is making me need to return and play it once more,” Jeffries says. “I’ve been ready for this for thus lengthy, and now I actually really feel like that is our second.”
Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians hits Disney+ December 10.
Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Occasions & Leisure at IGN, main leisure content material and protection of tentpole occasions together with IGN Dwell, San Diego Comedian Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He is spent 20 years working within the video games and leisure business, and his adventures have taken him in all places from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Observe him on Bluesky @MichaelPeyton
