Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Pitch Meeting
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Published 2020-10-04
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Harry Potter carved out a market for popular young adult books being adapted into movies, and studios started scrambling for their piece of that pie. For Fox, that came in the form of Percy Jackson-- a book series following the demi-god son of Poseidon dealing with Ancient Greek stuff all over the place.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief raises lots of questions. Like why do Greek Gods hang out in the United States? Why does everyone think that Percy stole the lightning bolt? Why does Zeus pick such a specific time for war? Why keep Percy in Camp Half-Blood if Hades can just pop up in the campfire at any time? Why doesn’t Percy show any emotion when seeing his mom die or when chopping off Medusa’s head? What was Luke’s plan exactly? Why did he send them on a quest to collect things that would make his own plan fail?
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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All Comments (21)
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"Do you think maybe we should adapt the books faithfully because fans like the stories?" "I am sure they just like the names."
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"But what if fans don't like it?" "But what if money" "I like money"
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"Because Zeus said so, I guess." -Greek mythology in a nutshell
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Hades in book: Imma keep my kids safe in a hotel. Hades in movie: MWAHAHAHAHA I GOT THE LIGHTNING BOLT
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Ryan's disappointment at the kids not fighting a cow is priceless.
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Man, They keep making these pitch meetings about movies that don't exist.
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“Man this place is like high school without the musical” “so just high school” I lost it 😂
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“And he’s like, woah! What’s her name?” “His mom just died”
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I absolutely adored this book series and was so excited for the movie. My disappointment was immeasurable
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The only worthwhile adaptation of this book is the musical, unironically. It is great.
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I love how he sounds mildly disappointed about the fact they are fighting a minotaur and not a throwing-cow.
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"Didnt his mom just die" "You see sir, she was really, really pretty" "Oh that makes since, continue"
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As much as this is a terrible film to any percy Jackson fan, at the very least it led to me making the connection between filmmaking and the entrance to the underworld
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Making movies that ruin people’s childhoods is super easy, barely an inconvenience
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I love how the villain is set up to be Ares in the book but last page turns it into Luke lol. In this they literally were just like yeah Hades seems bad lets go with him 😂
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I have been waiting for a pitch meeting of this movie for so long I am so glad u did it. It was great
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"It's called camp half-blood !" " Oh, is the half-blood Prince there? " The producer is a literal child😄
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Real fans know this is Peter Johnson not Percy Jackson
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The American flag and fireworks overlay is legit one of the funniest things this show has ever done. Bravo!
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"a more faithful adaptation can be made" Me: Yaaaass!!! finallyyyyy!
