Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians:
The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson & the Olympians The Lightning Thief poster.jpg
American theatrical release poster
Directed by Chris Columbus
Screenplay by Craig Titley
Based on The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Stephen Goldblatt
Edited by Peter Honess
Music by Christophe Beck
Production
companies
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • February 2, 2010 (2010-02-02)(Canada)
  • February 12, 2010 (2010-02-12)(United States)
Running time
119 minutes [1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom [2]
  • United States [2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$95 million [3] [4]
Box office$226.4 million [4]

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (also known as Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief) is a 2010 action fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and written by Craig Titley, based on the 2005 novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. The film is the first installment in the Percy Jackson film series. It stars Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson alongside an ensemble cast that includes Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, and Uma Thurman.

Contents

In 2004 20th Century Fox acquired the film rights to the book series. In 2007 Chris Columbus was hired to direct. Filming began April 2009 in Vancouver. Some shots were filmed in Tennessee and Las Vegas, and some exterior scenes were shot in New York.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief was released theatrically in the United States on February 12, 2010, by 20th Century Fox. [5] The film received mixed reviews from critics, with criticism for the poor grasp of its source material and its script, but praise for Lerman and Jackson's performances, visual effects, and action sequences. The film grossed $226.4 million worldwide against a production budget of $95 million. [4] It was released on June 29, 2010 on DVD [6] and Blu-ray Disc. [7] A video game based on the film was released for Nintendo DS on February 11, 2010. A sequel, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters , was released on August 7, 2013. A television series was released on Disney+ in 2023.

Plot

At the top of the Empire State Building, Zeus meets his brother Poseidon and accuses Poseidon's demigod son, Percy Jackson, of stealing his master lightning bolt. Poseidon reminds Zeus that Percy is unaware of his true identity, but Zeus declares that unless the bolt is returned to Mount Olympus before midnight of the Summer Solstice in two weeks, war will be waged between all the gods.

A 16-year-old Percy struggles with dyslexia and ADHD for long periods. On a school trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Percy is attacked by Alecto, a Fury masquerading as his substitute English teacher Mrs. Dodds, who demands the bolt. Percy's best friend Grover Underwood and his Latin teacher Mr. Brunner help scare off Alecto. Mr. Brunner gives Percy a pen which he claims is a very powerful cosmic weapon, and instructs Grover to take Percy and his mother Sally to Camp Half-Blood — a secret sanctuary for demigod children on Long Island, leaving behind Sally's abusive husband and Percy's stepfather, Gabe Ugliano. There, they are attacked by the Minotaur, who seemingly kills Percy's mother. Percy discovers that Mr. Brunner's pen is a magical sword, and uses it to fight off the Minotaur, killing it with its own horn.

Waking up three days later, Percy learns he is Poseidon’s son, Grover is a satyr and Percy’s protector, and Mr. Brunner is Chiron, a centaur. He starts coming into his latent demigod powers, which include hydrokinesis and healing, and meets other demigods, including Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena; and the camp's leader Luke Castellan, son of Hermes. Percy is visited by an apparition of Hades, who reveals that the Minotaur abducted Sally to the Underworld to trade for the bolt. Defying Chiron's orders, Percy sets out for the Underworld with Grover and Annabeth. Luke gives Percy a map with the location of three green pearls belonging to Hades' wife, Persephone, which will allow them to escape the Underworld. Percy is also given a pair of flying winged Converse All-Stars stolen from Hermes, and Luke's favorite shield. Meanwhile, Percy is declared a missing person.

At a garden center in New Jersey, with help from Grover and Annabeth, Percy manages to decapitate Medusa and takes the first pearl from her corpse. At the Parthenon in Nashville, Percy uses the shoes to retrieve the second pearl from the crown of a statue of Athena there, and Grover kills a Hydra with Medusa's head. The trio arrives at the Lotus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to obtain the third pearl; however, they forget their mission after eating lotus flowers, the effects from which causes them to lose a sense of time. Percy snaps out of the spell after hearing the voice of Poseidon through telepathy telling him not to eat any more flowers. Percy frees Grover and Annabeth from the flowers' effects; they locate the final pearl in the casino and escape. Unfortunately, they only have one day left to prevent the war, as they were in the casino for almost a week. They discover that the Underworld is in Hollywood and race there. With all three pearls, Percy, Grover, and Annabeth enter the portal to the Underworld upon arriving in Hollywood.

In the Underworld, Hades finds the bolt hidden inside Luke's shield, revealing that Luke was the thief all along. Hades tries to kill the trio, but Persephone turns on him in retaliation for imprisoning her and gives the bolt to Percy. As they only have three pearls, Grover remains behind, while Percy, Annabeth, and Sally teleport to the Empire State Building, the secret entrance to Olympus. However, before they can enter, they are ambushed by Luke, who reveals that he stole the bolt to demolish Olympus and establish the demigods (and himself) as Olympus' new rulers. After a battle across Manhattan, Percy defeats Luke, returns the bolt to Zeus, and reconciles with his father. Having been reunited with Grover, Percy and Annabeth continue to train back at Camp Half-Blood.

Cast

Logan Lerman plays the titular character. Logan Lerman at the Apple Store Soho in New York City, July 29, 2013.jpg
Logan Lerman plays the titular character.

Production

Chris Columbus is the film's director and producer. Chris Columbus.jpg
Chris Columbus is the film's director and producer.

In June 2004, 20th Century Fox acquired the film rights to the book. [13] In April 2007, Chris Columbus was hired to direct. [14] Filming began in April 2009 in Vancouver, [10] and Mammoth Studios in Burnaby was selected to be the studio. [15] Portions of the film were shot at the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, that has a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. [16] The Lotus Casino sequence was filmed at The Westin Bayshore in Vancouver in June 2009, and additional scenes of Percy, Grover and Annabeth driving to and from the casino were shot on the Las Vegas Strip and in front of the Fremont Street Experience. Filming wrapped up on the morning of July 25, 2009, in Mission, British Columbia. Additional exterior scenes were filmed on location in Brooklyn, New York during the first week of August 2009. [17] Digital intermediate work began in San Francisco in November 2009. [18] Christophe Beck composed the score. [19] Columbus has stated that the cast was chosen specifically with sequels in mind. "I think with Percy Jackson it was a matter of finding the right cast to fit into these roles, sort of the perfect cast for these roles, because hopefully, God willing, we will go on to do other Percy Jackson films and you want the cast to grow with their characters". [20]

During production, Riordan was disappointed with the changes made to the story and warned the studio that it would likely alienate the readers of the book series that it was depending on to buy tickets. In two emails commenting at length on a draft of the script that he posted to his blog in 2018, he specifically warned the studio that trying to make the story more attractive to a teenage audience by aging the characters and including some profanity in the script might move a significant portion of the books' readers to leave the theater in disgust long before the movie ended. He also felt the introduction of Persephone's pearls as a plot device made no sense, having no basis in mythology and distracting Percy from his goal of recovering the stolen lightning. [21]

Reception

Box office

The film opened on February 12, 2010, in 3,356 theaters; its opening weekend box-office results totaled $31.2 million [4] in the U.S., finishing at #3 below The Wolfman , which opened at #2 with $31.5 million and below Valentine's Day , which opened at #1 with $56.3 million. [22] The film had a strong opening weekend for its genre, posting the highest opening weekend for a fantasy film not from the Harry Potter , Chronicles of Narnia , or Lord of the Rings series. [23] As of September 14, 2010, it grossed a total of $88.8 million in the U.S. and Canada with $137.7 million elsewhere in the world, bringing it to $226.5 million. [4]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 49% based on reviews from 150 critics, with an average score of 5.30/10. The site's consensus reads: "Though it may seem like just another Harry Potter knockoff, Percy Jackson benefits from a strong supporting cast, a speedy plot, and plenty of fun with Greek mythology." [24] On Metacritic it has a score of 47 out of 100, based on 31 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [25] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+ on a scale from A+ to F. [26]

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described the film as "standard Hollywood product... unadventurous and uninteresting". [27] The reviewer for The Washington Post thought "the movie suffers by taking itself a little too seriously. It's not just that it's a lot less funny than the book. It's also a lot less fun". [28] On BBC Radio 5, Mark Kermode criticized the similarity of the film to director Chris Columbus's Harry Potter films, likening it to a Harry Potter parody book and dubbing it Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins. [29] This comment later sparked a satirical fan creation with precisely that title, narrated by Stephen Fry. [30]

The author, Rick Riordan, publicly criticized the final script. He revealed email recommendations for script changes with names redacted. Regarding future support for a reboot Riordan said, "In the future, if some project actually does get underway, I may not be able to comment on it for contractual reasons, but you can tell how I'm feeling about it by what I do or don’t say. Am I talking about it? Promoting it? Sharing cool things? I am probably happy. Am I completely ignoring it and never mentioning it on social media? Yeah . . . that’s probably not a good sign. For instance, check out my website, rickriordan.com. Do you see any indication there that the Percy Jackson movies ever existed? No. No, you do not." [31] [32] [33] He also shared in the same email “The script as a whole is terrible. I don't simply mean that it deviates from the book, though certainly it does that to point of being almost unrecognizable as the same story. Fans of the books will be angry and disappointed.” [34]

Accolades

AwardCategoryRecipientsResultReferences
2010 MTV Movie Awards Breakthrough Performance Logan LermanNominated [35]
Best Fight Logan Lerman vs. Jake AbelNominated
Teen Choice Awards 2010 Choice Movie Actress: Fantasy Rosario DawsonNominated [36] [37]
Choice: Breakout FemaleAlexandra DaddarioNominated
Choice: Breakout MaleLogan LermanNominated
Choice: FightLogan Lerman vs. Jake AbelNominated
37th Saturn Awards Best Performance by a Younger Actor Logan LermanNominated [38]
2010 Scream Awards Best CameoRosario DawsonNominated [39]

Soundtrack

Video game

A video game based on the film developed by Griptonite Games and published by Activision was released exclusively for Nintendo DS on February 11, 2010. [40] GameZone's Michael Splechta gave it a 6/10, saying "Percy Jackson might not make a splash when it comes to movie tie-in games, but fans of turn-based combat might find some redeeming qualities in this otherwise bare-bones game." [41] On Metacritic, the game has a score of 56 out of 100 based on 6 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [42]

Home media

The film was released on June 29, 2010 on DVD [6] and Blu-ray. [7] The movie itself charted at the top of the charts (DVD sales) with $13,985,047 in revenue in its first week. [43] As of October 2011, the movie had sold 2,087,368 DVDs with over $37 million in sales. [44]

Future

In October 2011, 20th Century Fox announced a sequel based on the second book, The Sea of Monsters . [45] The film was released on August 7, 2013. [46] A television series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians , premiered on Disney+ in 2023.

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