Disney is bringing more of Rick Riordan‘s expansive mythological universe to life. A live-action series adaptation of The Kane Chronicles is currently in development at Disney+.
Riordan will create the series with Angela Robinson (How to Get Away with Murder, True Blood, The L Word).
The Kane Chronicles is a trilogy — The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpent’s Shadow — based on Egyptian mythology that is set in the same universe as Riordan’s other series, Camp Half-Blood Chronicles and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. The story follows siblings Carter and Sadie Kane, both powerful magicians and descendants of two pharaohs, Narmer and Ramses the Great. The book series takes them on adventures where they are forced to contend with the Egyptian gods and goddesses in the modern world.
The logline for the Disney+ series is: “When their father unleashes the god of chaos and vanishes, the estranged Kane siblings must master their inherited Egyptian magic, forge unlikely alliances, and rescue their father before warring gods can wreak havoc on our modern world.”
This gives new life to The Kane Chronicles after the property was previously being developed as a feature film for Netflix. After the rights reverted back to Riordan in 2024, it appears 20th Television snapped them up to develop alongside the studio’s live-action adaptation of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
After a rocky start to his book-to-screen adaptations, Riordan has found quite a bit of success with the Disney+ take on Percy Jackson. The series premiered in 2023 to nearly 30 million views in less than a month. The third season is set to debut in November and will, for the first time, adapt the third book in the series, The Titan’s Curse.
The Kane Chronicles is produced by 20th Television. Executive producers include Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Angela Robinson, and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jeremy Bell for The Gotham Group.
