Disney+’s ‘Percy Jackson’ Season 3 Trailer Officially Reveals the Race to Save Annabeth

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For anyone who watched the Percy Jackson movies and waited for a third installment that never came, getting to The Titan’s Curse feels like unfinished business. Rick Riordan‘s third novel is where we meet Nico and Bianca di Angelo, spend more time with Thalia, and discover just how much trouble Percy can get into when Annabeth isn’t around to talk him through a plan. There’s a reason readers have been so eager for the Disney+ adaptation to reach this point, and now, it’s almost finally here.

The book also puts some distance between Percy and the familiar comfort of his trio with Annabeth and Grover. New questmates bring their own loyalties and plenty of friction, while the growing threat of Kronos makes each encounter feel closer to the war everyone fears is coming. For Walker Scobell‘s Percy, though, saving Annabeth is enough reason to get involved, regardless of whether anyone actually invited him.

Disney+ has released the official trailer for Season 3 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which premieres with two episodes November 20 on Disney+ and Hulu. Two episodes will arrive each week after that. The new season adapts The Titan’s Curse, following Percy as he sets out to rescue Annabeth after she is captured by the forces of Kronos. Saving Annabeth is already enough to get Percy moving, but the quest comes with considerably more baggage. A goddess needs freeing, a prophecy carries dire consequences, and the fall of Olympus is a possibility everyone would presumably prefer to avoid. Grover joins Percy alongside some unlikely companions, as the threat of Kronos continues to grow.

Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life
looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in
return.

You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and
somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right
thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.

• This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat,
  fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends.
• You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost
  everything you touch is older than your entire family line.
• The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives
  every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight.
• You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.

You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where
you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is
finding out what is over there.

• One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who
  each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together.
• You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off
  somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea.
• The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land
  harder because of that rather than in spite of it.
• You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of
  it.

You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The
Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the
people are where it all gets complicated.

• Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is
  a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept.
• You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the
  Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer.
• The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a
  rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people.
• You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story
  got told wrong.

You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and
you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as
everybody kept telling you.

• Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners,
  which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse.
• You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for
  something nobody thought to test for.
• The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud
  every time a prophecy tries to get in the way.
• Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you
  difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.

What Happens in ‘The Titan’s Curse’?

Percy’s next quest begins with a trip to find two young demigods, Nico and Bianca di Angelo, but the rescue quickly goes wrong. Annabeth disappears, Artemis goes missing, and the arrival of the goddess’ Hunters brings a new set of allies who aren’t especially interested in Percy’s help. Naturally, being left out of the official quest does very little to keep him from joining it. The search takes Percy and his companions across the country as they try to find Annabeth and Artemis before the winter solstice. Thalia, a fellow child of the Big Three, becomes a much bigger part of the story, putting Percy alongside someone who can match his stubbornness and has her own complicated history with Luke. With Kronos gathering support, their disagreements carry consequences beyond who gets to lead the group.

For readers, The Titan’s Curse also introduces characters and decisions that shape the rest of the series. Nico and Bianca’s arrival is a huge part of that, though newcomers should get to discover why for themselves. Between the Hunters, the prophecy, and the increasingly personal cost of fighting the Titans, there’s plenty here to fill a season without giving away its biggest surprises.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3 premieres with two episodes November 20 on Disney+ and Hulu, followed by two episodes each week.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians