Despite lackluster box office returns for the first film, Fox 2000 are continuing with their Percy Jackson franchise.

The first flick “Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief”, based on the book by Rick Riordan, was released in 2010 and starred Logan Lerman as Jackson, a teenager who discovers he’s the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods.

Also starring Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson and Jake Abel, the second film, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters” sees Jackson and his friends head into the Sea of Monsters to find the mythical Golden Fleece.

Variety reports that Douglas Smith, star of TV’s “Big Love”, has joined the cast although no word yet on who, or what, he might be playing.

Smith is a relative unknown to Hollywood audiences. The young actor played a young Brendon Fraser in 1999′s “Blast From The Past” and then various bit roles on TV shows. In the next year, the 26 year old has the sci-fi thriller “Antiviral” with Sarah Gadon and Caleb Landry Jones, and the amusingly-titled “The Boy Who Smells Like Fish”, alongside Zoe Kravitz.

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Caleb Landry Jones, Douglas Smith, Matt Watts and James Cade also star in the debut feature from Brandon Cronenberg, to shoot in Toronto.

TORONTO – Like father, like son: Brandon Cronenberg has cast Canadian actress Sarah Gadon in his debut feature Antiviral after his father, David Cronenberg, had her star in his two latest films, A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis.

Gadon played a young wife to Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, and then was wed to Robert Pattinson’s Eric Packer lead character in Cosmopolis.

Besides her collaborations with the Cronenbergs, Gadon has just completed work in Budapest on World Without End, the eight-part sequel to The Pillars of the Earth.

Antiviral, shooting in Toronto and Hamilton from November 7 to December 11, also stars Caleb Landry Jones, Malcolm McDowell, Douglas Smith, Matt Watts and James Cade.

The Canadian indie, written by Brandon Cronenberg, echoes his father’s more outrageous earlier sci-fi flicks by portraying an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans.

Toronto-based Rhombus Media is producing Antiviral, while Alliance Films will release the picture in Canada and in the UK, via its Momentum Pictures subsidiary.

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