Until writers and actors reach a fair deal, we probably won't hear too much about this series until a trailer drops. Riordan and the new trio of Walker Scobell, Leah Jefferies, and Aryan Simhadrihave been very passionate about the project in the past, which bodes well for the project. Though during the current writer and actor strikes this was canceled. Percy Jackson and the Olympians was supposed to have a comic con panel. And if Uncle Rick is staying true to his word about liking an adaptation, "Am I talking about it? Promoting it? Sharing cool things? I am probably happy." Well, he has been talking about it. Of course, we have the new series to look forward to in 2024. There is so much more wrong with it that would make this too long, so definitely go check out Riordan's writing about this experience. He is out of character the entire film, as he is supposed to care so much for his friends. ![]() In the film, he lets Grover stay behind in the underworld and leaves with his mother. Only being able to free her once he proves to Hades that he did not steal the bolt. Percy is not supposed to save his mother, he has to leave her behind. The film also fumbles in the handling of the end. No, not Luke, but the war God Ares and whoever he's doing this for (we'll get to that later). By doing this, it cuts the main antagonist of the novel. Though I will admit, the Lotus Casino "Poker Face" sequence is great fun. Louis Arch, and replaces it with a lackluster A to B plot. He can't fly across the continent, because "Zeus would zap him out of the sky." Instead, the movie turns this into a quest to find "Persephone's Pearls" which is a lazy mcguffin to get them across the country, and systematically throws out nearly every cool stop they make in the book, like the St. The beginning is alright, but the main structure of the quest is completely changed.Īs Percy is wrongfully accused of stealing the lightning bolt, treks across the country along with Annabeth and Grover to find his mother, as well as confront the God Hades, who he believes actually stole Zeus' bolt. ![]() Jackson all do their very best with what was given to them. Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, and Brandon T. The cast is nearly perfect too, if only they had made the movie years prior. It's a pretty mind-boggling choice when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone(with the same director, Chris Columbus, no less!) started the series on the same structure. The books are also packed with puns, whereas the films go with a more serious tone. This is important as there is a prophecy (not in the film!) that says Percy will make a decision that could either destroy the world or save it. Percy and his friends are 12 in the first book, aging with each entry until they reach 16 in the final book of the original series. Quite literally, everything that was beloved about the book was altered in the movie adaptations. Non-book readers (or readers who read these books as kids and have since forgotten) may be asking what was changed. It's actually quite a funny read (even more so when the films took out all the humor) as Riordan leaves them with "I don’t need to be the Oracle of Delphi to foresee what will happen" if they move forward with the script he got. In this email, he lays out his concerns as a whole, then goes on to three key areas that should have been improved: age appropriateness, story structure, and the writing. doesn't) with some crossed-out names we could probably fill in. ![]() It is especially enlightening if you want to understand how the Hollywood machine works with authors (or rather. It is too much to cover everything here, but it is a good read, and you should check it out. ![]() He also gave us the chance to read excerpts of emails he sent to producers at the time noting his concerns about the adaptation. In November of 2018, just when the possibility of a Percy Jackson reboot was looming, Rick Riordan released a statement about his time while consulting on the films.
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