Percy's friend Grover reveals himself as a satyr and warns of danger. Percy and his mother Sally go to Long Island. Brunner, later revealed as Chiron, lends Percy a magical sword-pen to defeat her. Dodds, turns into a Fury and attacks him.
While on a school trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the chaperones, Mrs. Percy Jackson is a dyslexic twelve-year-old with ADHD. On May 14, 2020, Riordan announced that a live-action TV series for Disney+ would adapt the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, with the first season covering The Lightning Thief. The novel is followed by The Sea of Monsters and spawned two sequel series ( The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo) and the extended universe of the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles.Ī film adaptation of the book, titled Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, was released in the United States on February 12, 2010. It won the Adult Library Services Association Best Books for Young Adults, among other awards. More: Notorious B.I.G.The Lightning Thief is a 2005 American fantasy- adventure novel based on Greek mythology, the first young adult novel written by Rick Riordan in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. It's going to be a fantastic, exciting ride!" "Rest assured that (my wife) Becky & I will be involved in person in every aspect of the show," he wrote in the announcement. In May 2020, Riordan confirmed on Twitter that a live-action series based on his books about kids descended from Greek gods would be coming to Disney+.
In addition to announcing Jeffries as Annabeth, Variety also reported "Cheaper by the Dozen" star Aryan Simhadri will play satyr Grover. Walker Scobell from "The Adam Project" had already been announced as series protagonist Percy Jackson. She is a Black girl playing someone who was described in the books as white. He continued: "You are judging her appropriateness for this role solely and exclusively on how she looks. 'Percy Jackson' author Rick Riordan not a fan of the film adaptations, calls them a 'mess' You feel I must have been coerced, brainwashed, bribed, threatened, whatever, or I as a white male author never would have chosen a Black actor for the part of this canonically white girl." "You have decided that I couldn’t possibly mean what I have always said: That the true nature of the character lies in their personality. The author added that those saying Jeffries doesn't fit the role because she's not white are dismissing her "years of hard work honing her craft, her talent, her tenacity, her focus, her screen presence."
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