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What do you do when one of the most powerful weapons in existence goes missing?
Season 1 will be drawn from Riordan’s first book in the series,The Lightning Thief.
The gods themselves also show up in the trailer, includingLin-Manuel Miranda’s Hermes.

Walker Scobell on ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’.Credit:Disney/David Bukach
The messenger god is seen at a casino, greeting the young demigods.
Riordan readers will recognize the setting as the Lotus Casino, based on the Lotus Eaters fromThe Odyssey.
Somewhat less friendly is the war god Ares (Adam Copeland), whom we see dueling with Percy.

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Percy Jackson and the Olympianspremieres Dec. 20 on Disney+.
Check out the trailer above, and stay tuned for more coverage of it from EW.