Each Percy Jackson episode cost between $12-15 million.
Disney+ is sparing no expense with Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The serialized adaptation of Rick Riordan's best-selling novels went into development as far back as Spring 2020, with Riordan himself announcing that he was leading an early pre-production process. 18 months later, Disney gave the green light to Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 1, an eight-episode adaptation of the first book in the pentalogy, The Lightning Thief.
This budget puts Percy Jackson in the realm of $120 million for its complete Season 1 cost, roughly $30 million cheaper than Marvel Studios productions The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Moon Knight. Disney+ is putting more money into this serialized Percy Jackson adaptation than its previous feature films. 20th Century Fox spent $95 million on Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and even less on its critically-panned sequel, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters .
While not all episodes go to mystical locations, Percy Jackson is very much a cross-country adventure. Practical locations like Yancy Academy and Camp Half-Blood were constructed for the series while other-worldly spots like the Underworld and Mount Olympus utilized Industrial Light & Magic's Volume stage to create their massive landscapes.
"For Percy Jackson, this has been an incredible partnership with 20th and the filmmaking team. They are using the Volume in a similar way to The Mandalorian," ILM Senior Vice President Janet Lewin told ComicBook.com in Summer 2022."It is a run-of-show project. It's not just a couple of sequences. It's not just a pick-up shoot or an installation. They are trying to leverage all of the bells and whistles that come with a fully tricked out extra large Volume.
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