“There are roughly a million kids that age, plus their families, who are dying to see this film because they want to see the pictures in their imagination brought to life. “The core readership for Percy Jackson is age 9-12,” he wrote in the email. Riordan also argued making Percy older for the movies would alienate the core audience.
Starting Percy at seventeen makes this undoable.” I assume would at least like to keep open the option of sequels assuming the first movie does well. “The series is grounded on the premise that Percy must progress from age twelve to age sixteen, when according to a prophecy he must make a decision that saves or destroys the world.
“First, it kills any possibility of a movie franchise,” Riordan explained. “As no one wants to see this film succeed more than I do,” the author wrote, “I hope you’ll let me share a couple of reasons why this is a bad idea from a money-making point of view.” Riordan sent an email note to producers in January 2009 after he heard the ages of the main characters were being changed from 12 years old to 17.
Riordan said that his contract for the film left him with little creative control or final say about the movie adaptation, which resulted in problematic changes he feared would kill the potential film franchise. The author recently posted on his official website a lengthy blog post in which he detailed the struggles he faced in pleading with the film’s producers to make the first movie as faithful to his book as possible. “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” was based on the teen novel “The Lightning Thief,” written by Rick Riordan. The family epic was even directed by Christopher Columbus, who launched the “Potter” franchise with “Sorcerer’s Stone” and “The Chamber of Secrets.” Unfortunately for Fox, the “Percy Jackson” franchise only lasted two films, neither of which made it to the $250 million mark worldwide. 20th Century Fox released “ Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” in theaters February 2010 with hopes of starting a new “Harry Potter”-sized film franchise.
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