Percy Jackson is departing on yet another world-altering adventure this fall.
The third season of Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians will debut on November 20, 2026, it was revealed during the show’s buzzy San Diego Comic-Con panel on Thursday morning.
To kick off the con, Percy Jackson fans inside Hall H were treated to the first few minutes of footage from Season 3. The scene opened with a cloaked figure trudging through dark city streets as ominous holiday tunes emanate from the surrounding businesses. The figure makes their way to a parking garage and removes their hood, revealing that it’s actually Thalia (Tamera Smart) — and she’s looking for Luke (Charlie Bushnell).
She confronts a monster inside the parking garage, pressuring it to tell her about her former best friend’s location, and the fight is not going her way…until Percy (Walker Scobell) shows up. He helps her defeat the monster, much to her chagrin, only to find out that’s it Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) who sent him. She’s there, too, and she tries to convince Thalia to join them on their mission to collect Bianca (Olive Abercrombie) and Nico Di Angelo (Levi Chrisopulos), children of Hades, from their military boarding school.
These two are quite important and anticipated characters who will change the frame of the tension between Percy and Thalia as children of two of the big three gods. They are children of Hades, Kronos’ third and final son. Abercrombie and Chrisopulos took the stage for their very first SDCC in honor of their long-awaited Season 3 arrival.
Back to the clip, Thalia isn’t having it and peels away in a stolen car before the pair can convince her otherwise. Or, really just Annabeth, because Percy makes his disdain for Thalia pretty clear in their brief interaction.
On that note, Smart spoke on stage about how audiences will finally truly get to know Thalia and understand the tension between her and Percy in Season 3 after getting just a glimpse of her at the end of the second season.
“The one thing for me that I really thought about is ‘Yes, I was so excited to be in Season 2’ but Thalia hasn’t been established as a character yet,” Smart said. “For me it was building on what Rick [Riordan] created and wrote. So it was building on that and as you all say, some ‘generational beef’ [between Thalia’s father Zeus and Percy’s father Poseidon.] She’s so layered this season so it was a lot of work into her past.”
Jeffries was absent from the panel discussion because she is filming the next generation Cheetah Girls movie, but she filmed a special video message for the crowd to introduce the clip. Scobell, who was in attendance, also made sure she was represented inside the convention center, bringing a photo of her to the stage with him.
Executive producer Dan Shotz, who was on the panel, also teased that viewers can expect more of Annabeth in Season 3 than the got in the book it is based on, Rick Riordan’s The Titan’s Curse.
“Annabeth is separated from the group,” Shotz said. “We are gonna open up the world and explore where Annabeth is and give a new look into that. It’s been nice to expand on that.”
Shotz also told the audience that the cast was “pushed to the limit” with the darker, deeper stakes for Season 3, adding: “The things we have thrown at them, the emotional depth – these guys, every day, delivered on that.”
In addition to Shotz, EP Craig Silverstein was also on the panel. When asked whether he could confirm Scobell’s previous remarks that Season 3 is the most “book accurate” thus far, he remained coy (as did Shotz), but he did reveal that there are many long-awaited surprises in store for readers.
“You’re going to go to some places that you’ve been waiting to see for a long time,” he said.
Season 3 of Percy Jackson will be the first adaptation of the third book in Riordan’s series, as the previous film adaptations ended with Sea of Monsters, adding another level of anticipation (and anxiety) around how the creative team will bring this pivotal story to life. With The Titan’s Curse, the series starts to become a bit darker and more mature as Percy and his friends become more entangled in the war between the gods.
There is plenty to come, making it hard to choose which scene the Percy team is most excited for fans to see. Naturally, the junkyard scene was a big contender (if you know, you know), which we now know will be in Episode 4.
Added Shotz: “I’m excited for everyone to see the Hunters [of Artemis]. It is time. There was a little sneak peak put out of their costumes and what they look like. That took so much incredible work from our costume and makeup [crew] to make them look so awesome and badass. I can’t wait for you to see them and how they work together.”
For his own favorite moment, Simhadri joked : “The Hoover Dam…it was pretty dam good.”
