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Before March 11, 2022 and the release of ''The Adam Project'' on Netflix, few people had ever heard of Walker Scobell. Now with two films released and a new series in the works, he is well on his way to becoming the crown prince of streaming television. | *Before March 11, 2022 and the release of ''The Adam Project'' on Netflix, few people had ever heard of Walker Scobell. Now with two films released and a new series in the works, he is well on his way to becoming the crown prince of streaming television. | ||
Walker Scobell was born January 5, 2009 and is 13-years-old. He was born in Los Angeles, California, USA and began acting in elementary school which he continued into middle school. He and his family currently resides in Colorado. His father Pete Scobell is a former naval officer, who currently works as a musician. His mother is Heather Scobell and he has an older sister who's name is not been released. Walker enjoys participating in such sports as snowboarding, skateboarding, and parkour. He is a huge fan of | Walker Scobell was born January 5, 2009 and is 13-years-old. He was born in Los Angeles, California, USA and began acting in elementary school which he continued into middle school. He and his family currently resides in Colorado. His father Pete Scobell is a former naval officer, who currently works as a musician. His mother is Heather Scobell and he has an older sister who's name is not been released. Walker enjoys participating in such sports as snowboarding, skateboarding, and parkour. He is a huge fan of superhero movies and his favorites include, Avengers: Endgame and Deadpool. He has stated that he has seen the two Deadpool films more then a hundred times and didn't let a pesky little thing like a R rating stop him from enjoying his favorite hero. Walker got his "big break" into acting when he beat out 376 other kids for the role of Adam opposite Ryan Reynolds in ''The Adam Project''. It was his first professional acting job and it was very unusual for him to be cast in a leading role with no past professional acting experience. Walker sent in his audition tape on August 4, 2020 and later did a [https://www.netflix.com/tudum/videos/walker-scobells-audition-tape-for-the-adams-project read-through] with Reynolds, at which point both Reynolds and the casting director Carmen Cuba said, that's our boy. | ||
''The Adam Project'', Walker Scobell's first film began filming in November 2020 and wrapped in March 2022 and is a science fiction adventure film. Along with Walker, the film stars, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, Zoe Saldaña. "After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self for a mission to save the future." The film received mixed reviews from the critics, but what do they know? The Adam Project is Netflix's fourth most-watched English-language film of all time. In the first 28 days after its release, the film has gathered 233,150,000 views. Walker Scobell gave a stellar performance, both | ''The Adam Project'', Walker Scobell's first film began filming in November 2020 and wrapped in March 2022 and is a science fiction adventure film. Along with Walker, the film stars, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, Zoe Saldaña. "After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self for a mission to save the future." The film received mixed reviews from the critics, but what do they know? The Adam Project is Netflix's fourth most-watched English-language film of all time. In the first 28 days after its release, the film has gathered 233,150,000 views. Walker Scobell gave a stellar performance, both heart-warming and hilarious. | ||
''Secret Headquarters'' was released on Paramount+ on August 12, 2022. It is a superhero film staring Owen Wilson, Walker Scobell, Jesse Williams, Keith L. Williams, Momona Tamada, Charles Melton, and Michael Peña. In June 2022, Walker Scobell was cast to play the leading role of Charlie Kincaid the son of Jack Kincaid (Owen Wilson)/The Guard, a superhero crime fighter. "While hanging out after school, Charlie and his friends discover the headquarters of the world’s most powerful superhero hidden beneath his home. When villains attack, they must team up to defend the headquarters and save the world." Other then Walker Scobell's exceptional performance, there is nothing remarkable about this film. It is not a horrible film or a great film. It is exactly what you would expect from beginning to end. | |||
'' | In April 2022, it was announced that Walker Scobell was to star in the upcoming Disney+ series ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians''. Rick Riordan, the author of the book series stated, "Walker Scobell is an incredibly talented young man who blew us away with his audition tapes for the role of Percy". Filming is currently underway in Vancouver, Canada and the series is expected to be released sometime in 2023 or as late as 2024. The first season will consist of eight episodes beginning with the storyline of ''The Lightning Thief''. Season one "tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson, who’s just coming to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. Now Percy must trek across America to find it and restore order to Olympus." The series co-stars Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, the daughter of Athena and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Percy's best friend and a satyr. | ||
For an unknown actor to come out of nowhere and in the span of less the a year to have this type of success is almost unheard of in Hollywood, but that is exactly what Walker Scobell has done. His star is certainly on the rise and we can hope that it illuminates us for years to come. | |||
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Walker Scobell was born January 5, 2009 and is 13-years-old. He was born in Los Angeles, California, USA and began acting in elementary school which he continued into middle school. He and his family currently resides in Colorado. His father Pete Scobell is a former naval officer, who currently works as a musician. His mother is Heather Scobell and he has an older sister who's name is not been released. Walker enjoys participating in such sports as snowboarding, skateboarding, and parkour. He is a huge fan of superhero movies and his favorites include, Avengers: Endgame and Deadpool. He has stated that he has seen the two Deadpool films more then a hundred times and didn't let a pesky little thing like a R rating stop him from enjoying his favorite hero. Walker got his "big break" into acting when he beat out 376 other kids for the role of Adam opposite Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project. It was his first professional acting job and it was very unusual for him to be cast in a leading role with no past professional acting experience. Walker sent in his audition tape on August 4, 2020 and later did a read-through with Reynolds, at which point both Reynolds and the casting director Carmen Cuba said, that's our boy. The Adam Project, Walker Scobell's first film began filming in November 2020 and wrapped in March 2022 and is a science fiction adventure film. Along with Walker, the film stars, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, Zoe Saldaña. "After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self for a mission to save the future." The film received mixed reviews from the critics, but what do they know? The Adam Project is Netflix's fourth most-watched English-language film of all time. In the first 28 days after its release, the film has gathered 233,150,000 views. Walker Scobell gave a stellar performance, both heart-warming and hilarious. Secret Headquarters was released on Paramount+ on August 12, 2022. It is a superhero film staring Owen Wilson, Walker Scobell, Jesse Williams, Keith L. Williams, Momona Tamada, Charles Melton, and Michael Peña. In June 2022, Walker Scobell was cast to play the leading role of Charlie Kincaid the son of Jack Kincaid (Owen Wilson)/The Guard, a superhero crime fighter. "While hanging out after school, Charlie and his friends discover the headquarters of the world’s most powerful superhero hidden beneath his home. When villains attack, they must team up to defend the headquarters and save the world." Other then Walker Scobell's exceptional performance, there is nothing remarkable about this film. It is not a horrible film or a great film. It is exactly what you would expect from beginning to end. In April 2022, it was announced that Walker Scobell was to star in the upcoming Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Rick Riordan, the author of the book series stated, "Walker Scobell is an incredibly talented young man who blew us away with his audition tapes for the role of Percy". Filming is currently underway in Vancouver, Canada and the series is expected to be released sometime in 2023 or as late as 2024. The first season will consist of eight episodes beginning with the storyline of The Lightning Thief. Season one "tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson, who’s just coming to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. Now Percy must trek across America to find it and restore order to Olympus." The series co-stars Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, the daughter of Athena and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Percy's best friend and a satyr. For an unknown actor to come out of nowhere and in the span of less the a year to have this type of success is almost unheard of in Hollywood, but that is exactly what Walker Scobell has done. His star is certainly on the rise and we can hope that it illuminates us for years to come. |