Quick TakeArticle at a glance
- Season 3 premieres with two episodes November 20 on Disney+ and Hulu.
- The trailer wastes no time putting Percy somewhere he doesn't want to be: soaked, outdoors, clearly mid-crisis.
- Midway through, the trailer gives its biggest visual swing room: a winged horse carrying a rider low across open country at golden hour, wings fully extended, before cutting to a wide shot of it soaring over a stretch of landscape.
The new Percy Jackson Season 3 trailer — official title Percy Jackson and the Olympians — dropped November 2, 2026, straight from Disney+’s own YouTube channel, and it’s the first real look at “The Titan’s Curse”: Annabeth captured, a goddess in chains, and a bronze giant tearing through Camp Half-Blood. Season 3 premieres with two episodes November 20 on Disney+ and Hulu.
Trailer via Disney Plus on YouTube.
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Premiere | November 20, 2026 — two episodes, then weekly |
| Platform | Disney+ and Hulu |
| Adapting | The Titan’s Curse, book 3 of Rick Riordan’s series |
| Starring | Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell, Tamara Smart, Levi Chrisopulos |
| Creator | Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg (Steinberg also executive produces) |
| Trailer length | 2 minutes, 37 seconds |
A Rescue Mission Opens the Season
The trailer wastes no time putting Percy somewhere he doesn’t want to be: soaked, outdoors, clearly mid-crisis. The official synopsis confirms why — Annabeth has been captured by Kronos’s forces, and Percy has to free a goddess in chains before the quest even properly starts. The early stretch cuts between camp life getting upended and Percy getting thrown straight into the deep end, literally, with underwater shots of him struggling against a current.
The Pegasus Flight Is the Trailer’s Best Shot
Midway through, the trailer gives its biggest visual swing room: a winged horse carrying a rider low across open country at golden hour, wings fully extended, before cutting to a wide shot of it soaring over a stretch of landscape. It’s the one moment the trailer slows down instead of cutting fast, and it’s clearly meant to be the money shot for the season’s marketing — flight has been a recurring image across all three seasons, but this is the clearest, best-lit version of it yet.
A Bronze Giant Attacks the Camp
The back half of the trailer turns violent fast: fire, wreckage, and a towering bronze, armored figure looming out of smoke with a glowing red core in its chest. Readers of the books will recognize the shape of what this is building to even though the trailer never names it on screen — a giant automaton guardian is a signature piece of imagery from this stretch of the series, and the production clearly built a full-scale set piece around it rather than leaning on a quick CG cutaway.
A Figure Bears a Crushing Weight in the Snow
One of the quietest shots in the trailer is also the most pointed: a lone figure standing in a snowy, mountainous clearing with something enormous and dark pressing down from above, arms raised to hold it up. The show doesn’t spell out who’s under it or what it is, but the framing is doing the title’s work for it — this is “The Titan’s Curse” rendered as a single, literal image rather than just a book title.
What’s New Here
This is the first footage of Season 3 built around actual plot rather than a cast-reveal teaser. Deadline and Variety both reported that the trailer gives fans their first look at Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite and Ming-Na Wen as Hera, casting that hadn’t been shown on screen before today. The trailer also confirms the two-episode premiere structure for the first time and is the first marketing to put the bronze guardian and the snowbound “curse” imagery in front of fans, rather than just returning cast in camp uniforms.
What the Trailer Doesn’t Show
For a season built around “freeing a goddess in chains,” the trailer never clearly shows who that goddess is or what’s holding her. It also doesn’t confirm exactly where or when the snowy confrontation happens relative to the camp attack, and beyond the brief glimpse of the bronze guardian’s masked face, we don’t get a clean look at any other new monster design. That’s three of the season’s biggest reveals the marketing is still sitting on three weeks out from premiere.
Where the Season Fits
Season 3 follows two seasons that each adapted one book a year, and this trailer keeps that pace — “The Titan’s Curse” is the third of five novels in Rick Riordan’s original series. Season 2’s premiere week pulled 508 million minutes streamed in the US between December 10 and December 14, 2025, per Nielsen, down from Season 1’s 1.3 billion US minutes across its run — context for how much is riding on this trailer actually landing with returning viewers. For the full episode count, air schedule and where to stream once it’s live, our Season 3 release guide has the breakdown. For how the cast and story got to this point, our Season 2 coverage covers the prior book adaptation.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3 come out?
Season 3 premieres November 20, 2026, with a two-episode launch on Disney+ and Hulu, followed by two new episodes releasing weekly.
What book does Percy Jackson Season 3 adapt?
Season 3 adapts “The Titan’s Curse,” the third novel in Rick Riordan’s original Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
Who is new to the cast in Percy Jackson Season 3?
Deadline and Variety report that the Season 3 trailer gives fans their first look at Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite and Ming-Na Wen as Hera.
Where can I watch the Percy Jackson Season 3 trailer?
The official trailer is posted on Disney Plus’s YouTube channel and embedded above.
Is Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3 the final season?
No. Rick Riordan’s original series runs five novels, and Season 3 adapts only the third, “The Titan’s Curse.”
