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‘Percy Jackson,’ ‘Avatar’ and epic coming-of-age tales are getting their live-action TV moment

28 February, 2024

While co-creating the live-action TV adaptation of the magical children’s book series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” for Disney+, Jon Steinberg looked to several classic films starring plucky young heroes for inspiration. “There were a lot,” Steinberg said, rattling off titles including 1986’s “Flight of the Navigator,” 1985’s “The Goonies” and 1982’s “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” “That was a genre that I felt like I was frequently, constantly exposed to as a kid. ... It’s not talking down to kids in any way. It’s just talking to everybody. And that was sort of the unmeetable ambition that we set out for the show.”

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