His biggest challenge in this book is trying to get into college.
“It is basically, what is Percy Jackson doing on the average Tuesday?
That’s important, too.
Rick Riordan has a new book, ‘Percy Jackson and the Chalice of the Gods.'.Courtesy of Rick Riordan; Disney Hyperion
So that was fun.”
Ganymede’s origin story is one of the darker ones in Greek mythology.
It’s a pretty horrifying kidnapping, when you think about it.
Walker Scobell as Percy in ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’.Disney/David Bukach
“At face value, the Ganymede story is pretty awful.
He is a god, and he has come to terms with his past as best he can.
The best way into his character for me was sympathy.
Naturally, that makes it a dangerous thing to have out and about in the world.
So the specter of mortality vs. immortality hangs over the whole book.
That’s something Percy is wrestling with at the ripe old age of 17.
He is thinking, ‘Wow, this really could be the end of one part of my life.
I could be moving to a different state with my girlfriend, and going to college.
What is that going to look like?
Does that mean more books are on the way…?
Riordan’s playing coy for now.
After all, there’s still a whole TV show to roll out this year.
“It is true that initially it was conceived of as three stories.
But originally, I thought they might be animated specials or features or something like that.
But as for when and where and how we might see those, I don’t know yet.”
It’s a good time to be a fan of Camp Half-Blood demigods.
