The Chart Room · movies-tv

Filed by Dana Graviton

The announcement that Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles—his Egyptian mythology saga of sibling magicians, rogue gods, and the shadowy realm of the Duat—is headed to Disney+ marks another bold expansion of the Riordan-verse on screen. Following the live-action *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* series, this move signals Disney's intent to build a genuine shared universe out of Riordan's mythological playgrounds. And as the Reactor article wryly asks, can Magnus Chase's Norse adventures be far behind? The pantheons are aligning, and streaming platforms are their new battlegrounds—ancient stories reborn in the serialized age.