Percy Jackson and the Olympians will introduce us to many new characters in Season 2, and we finally know who’ll play one of the most beloved fan favorites. Daniel Diemer will join the next season as Tyson the Cyclops, and his casting has been announced at this year’s Comic-Con.
The second season of this Disney+ series is going into production next week in Vancouver, and it’s based on the second book in the Percy Jackson series, The Sea of Monsters. It will see the young demigod Percy Jackson facing many changes in his life and he must journey into the deadly Sea of Monsters to set things right.
Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri lead this fantasy series as Percy, Annabeth, and Grover, and they’ll be in pretty good company in Season 2. Daniel Diemer is joining them as the fan-favorite character Tyson, a young cyclops who grew up alone on the streets, only to find out he’s a child of Poseidon and Percy’s half-brother.
Author Rick Riordan announced Diemer’s casting during the panel at Comic-Con and promised he’ll bring a whole new dimension to Tyson.
“Some of you may know, in The Sea of Monsters, we meet an important new character – a shy, awkward, endearing cyclops. He’s the half-brother to Percy, Tyson. And today, I have the honor of introducing the actor who will be bringing that character to life: Daniel Diemer,” he told the audience at Comic-Con.
