July 23, 2009Books, TV & Movies

The Lightning Thief – Teaser Trailer!

The teaser trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief premiered last week with the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This is another movie adaptation of a best-selling novel. There are 5 books in this series and you can check out my review of the first book here.

I have two wishes for this movie:

One: I hope it’s a good movie AND a good adaptation of the book at the same time.
Two: I hope this won’t turn out like The Golden Compass which underperformed in the box office which dashed all hopes of getting the sequels made into films.

olympus Olympus – house of the Olympians (Greek gods)
Olympus looks wicked cool here and is just like I imagined.

empire state building
The Empire State Building
And I assume those lights can’t be seen by normal humans?

percy jackson
Percy Jackson – I just hope this kid’s good.
They are casting older actors here when they should be like 12 years old only.

the trioBrandon T. Jackson as Grover Underwood, Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson
and Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase

It’s a really good book so I am confident this will do good in the box office. As long as the trio here has good on-screen chemistry just like actors Dan, Emma and Rupert have in the Harry Potter films, then they don’t have anything to worry about.  :wink:

Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman are some of the other actors in the cast. The director is Chris Columbus who also directed the first two Harry Potter films. I don’t think he’s the best director but he did well in introducing the wizarding world to us on the silver screen so I think he’s okay here.

The movie is set to be released in theaters on February 12, 2010 in America.

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  1. how old is Logan Lerman anyway? :?:

    zarrah on January 13th, 2011 at 10:10 pm #
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  2. yeah, annabeth’s hair is a problem but it’s a minor one, in my opinion. the major problem is her age.
    23???????????????????????????????????????????????
    if they are going to make movies on the rest of the series, they better hurry up. She won’t be young forever, Jeez.

    Kari on February 13th, 2010 at 3:31 am #
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    • Why was Percy driving hes spostota be 12!!! Same with Annabeth she looks 19!!! And a magor problem was that Luke didnt steel the Lightning Bolt it was Ares! Luke programed the flying shoes to drag Percy but draged Grover! And Percy was sopposed to go 2 Olympys ALONE in an AIR PLAIN. His Mom was sopposta stay in THE UNDERWORLD NOT Grover :!:

      Sierra on February 14th, 2010 at 6:47 am #
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      • They did change a lot of stuff but that’s to be expected because this is just an adaptation. I’m sure the moviemakers took the liberty of making these changes with the next movies in mind. Expect more changes in the next movie. :D

        Patrick on February 21st, 2010 at 3:20 pm #

  3. PERCY JACKSON ROCKS!!! I WISH THEY WILL STILL HAVE A MOVIE FOR BOOK 2,3,4 and 5
    cuz in book 1 i don’t think percy haven’t got a shield yet(cuz tyson, percy’s half brother gave that shield to him)

    Jovannie Abarquez on January 31st, 2010 at 10:31 am #
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    • Good observation. Completely forgot about the shield.

      Patrick on January 31st, 2010 at 8:57 pm #
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  4. i completely agree, i think that annabeth should have blonde hair. if she has it in the book then she should have it in the movie. this is bull!!!

    lexie on October 21st, 2009 at 11:34 pm #
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  5. If Annabeth Dosnt Have Blonde hair i will be pissed and i agree the actors should be the age of 12-13

    schuyler nanninga on September 25th, 2009 at 2:53 am #
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  6. Thanks merenwen for the feedback. It’s really wrong visually with Annabeth’s hair like that but I just hope the actress makes up for it with good acting. :wink:

    Movie’s only about 5 months away now!

    Patrick on September 8th, 2009 at 1:33 pm #
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  7. Okay, I can see how you guys can think about it like that now. But forgive me, even without the clouds I just couldn’t believe that being like Hogwarts. I never imagined Harry’s school with columns resembling Greek architecture. *sweatdrop*

    Patrick on September 8th, 2009 at 1:30 pm #
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  8. I COMPLETELY agree with Nicole. Annabeth NEEDS to have blonde hair or the movie will just be wrong.

    merenwen on September 8th, 2009 at 5:06 am #
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  9. shoot i messed up im sorry.. *remove the clouds and it’s exactly the hp part MR.LUNA LOVEGOOD said :D

    half-blood on September 7th, 2009 at 12:39 pm #
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  10. remove the clouds and exactly the hp part patrick said ;;)

    half-blood on September 7th, 2009 at 12:37 pm #
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  11. yep something like that. nothing made me WANT to watch this hehehe… better read muna :p

    Boris on August 21st, 2009 at 8:42 am #
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  12. Haha! You’re right. I didn’t think how this would look to those who haven’t read the book yet. Must be weird to you… It’s just a boy going up in an elevator and ending up in some mountain… on top of a building?! :D

    Patrick on August 21st, 2009 at 3:25 am #
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  13. hmmmm the trailer doesn’t say that much. might as well read your book review :)

    Boris on August 20th, 2009 at 9:21 pm #
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  14. I haven’t really browsed yet any discussion forums about this movie but I hope it won’t be as bad as many fans seem to be thinking. I think Shyamalan’s Last Airbender adaptation has a bigger chance of being horrible than this adaptation. :wink:

    Patrick on August 17th, 2009 at 12:13 am #
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  15. WTH?! I agree completely with Nicole…I was looking online (as im doing now) and one of the discussions were about Annabeth not being blonde or have curly hair. Some people said “Well maybe they casted her because she’s a great actress!” Well really? Honestly if she was a great actress for this role and she was really into her character then she would have no freakin’ problem dying her hair. Or at least wearing a freakin’ wig?

    I’m not to happy about Chris Columbus because of what he said about casting younger actors.

    My bet is this movie will suck.
    Mia

    Mia on August 16th, 2009 at 2:26 pm #
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  16. Haha! I didn’t even notice Annabeth’s hair. Don’t you think you’re being too critical? :) Their hair and age is the least of my worries. What I’m more worried about is the script and directing of this film. I just want this to be a well-directed and well-produced movie.

    I still don’t understand how some fans think that doesn’t look like Olympus though. Even before reading Percy Jackson, I already had an image of Olympus in my mind and this looks fine to me. :wink:

    Patrick on August 10th, 2009 at 5:24 pm #
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  17. THE ANNABETH IN THE MOVIE HAS BROWN HAIR! WHEN IN THE BOOK SHE HAS BLONDE THIS MAKES ME SO MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!wat do u think? i also think the ppl in the movie are too old and Olympus looks not like Olympus in the book!

    nicole on August 10th, 2009 at 2:11 am #
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  18. Oh I see. Hogwarts in the first movie with the lake. But I didn’t really think of that because of the clouds everywhere on the picture. :D

    I can’t wait too! I’m still on book 2 and it’s going really good.

    Patrick on August 7th, 2009 at 4:55 pm #
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  19. well yeah..
    It does kinda look a little like Hogwarts, the part when the first years arrive by boats..
    hehehe..
    but thats just one picture,I cant wait to see the movie!
    Yayy!

    Mr. Luna Lovegood on August 6th, 2009 at 11:19 pm #
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  20. Hogwarts? I don’t know… It just looks Greek to me which is how I imagined Olympus. :)

    I’m starting to get worried that Chris Columbus is directing this. He hasn’t directed any good films lately. :(

    Patrick on July 26th, 2009 at 8:43 pm #
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  21. Olympus looks like Hogwarts lol, but that didn’t come as a surprise, both films are directed by Chris Columbus

    kim on July 26th, 2009 at 8:28 pm #
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