Interesting Percy Jackson articles
I've found two interesting articles about the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief movie floating around the Internet today.
The first is an article that discusses the filming of the Lotus Land casino scene, and has a couple of quotes from Logan Lerman in it. There are the Harry Potter comparisons, of course, but this is probably the first article that says, "Yeah, at first glance they look similar, but PJO's a lot different so stop trashing it as a rip-off already."
This is the one paragraph that really grabbed my attention:
So Percy Jackson involves a road trip from New York to Los Angeles, which in this scene has Percy and his friends in a Vegas casino, an enchanted spot called the Lotus Land where those inside are lured and frozen in time, hence that holdover guy from the '70s. The heroes will make their escape in a black Maserati on a nearby podium - the downtown Bayshore Hotel was tarted up Vegas- style for the exterior scene where the car crashes out a plate-glass window.
Dude, if Annabeth gets to drive the Maserati like a total badass, I will completely forgive Columbus for not making her blonde.
And then there's this article where Colubmus talks about the casting for Harry Potter and how he decided to go about it differently while doing PJO. I thought the first part of the article where he talks about how hard it was working with the HP kids when they were little to be very interesting.
Again, the paragraphs that most PJO fans will probably care about:
For Percy Jackson, also based on a best-selling series of teen fantasy novels, Columbus was once again facing the prospect of casting actors to play characters who start out as 11-year-olds. Instead, he opted to rewrite the starting ages to 17 years old, and cast veteran actors Logan Lerman (3:10 to Yuma), Brandon T. Jackson (Tropic Thunder) and Alexandra Daddario (All My Children).
Percy Jackson is a modern-day American kid who discovers he’s descended from the Greek gods, and that a magical world exists in tandem with our own. An epic battle between supernatural good and evil ensues.
“I felt when we got into this process, that the types of scenes we were getting into, really it was necessary to cast slightly older actors,” says Columbus. “The physicality of some of these battle sequences, the action sequences were very demanding, so we’ve changed that.”
Thoughts?
Also, for the non-PJO fans on my f-list, I apologize for all the PJO-related spam lately. It's my fandom baby. :)
The first is an article that discusses the filming of the Lotus Land casino scene, and has a couple of quotes from Logan Lerman in it. There are the Harry Potter comparisons, of course, but this is probably the first article that says, "Yeah, at first glance they look similar, but PJO's a lot different so stop trashing it as a rip-off already."
This is the one paragraph that really grabbed my attention:
So Percy Jackson involves a road trip from New York to Los Angeles, which in this scene has Percy and his friends in a Vegas casino, an enchanted spot called the Lotus Land where those inside are lured and frozen in time, hence that holdover guy from the '70s. The heroes will make their escape in a black Maserati on a nearby podium - the downtown Bayshore Hotel was tarted up Vegas- style for the exterior scene where the car crashes out a plate-glass window.
Dude, if Annabeth gets to drive the Maserati like a total badass, I will completely forgive Columbus for not making her blonde.
And then there's this article where Colubmus talks about the casting for Harry Potter and how he decided to go about it differently while doing PJO. I thought the first part of the article where he talks about how hard it was working with the HP kids when they were little to be very interesting.
Again, the paragraphs that most PJO fans will probably care about:
For Percy Jackson, also based on a best-selling series of teen fantasy novels, Columbus was once again facing the prospect of casting actors to play characters who start out as 11-year-olds. Instead, he opted to rewrite the starting ages to 17 years old, and cast veteran actors Logan Lerman (3:10 to Yuma), Brandon T. Jackson (Tropic Thunder) and Alexandra Daddario (All My Children).
Percy Jackson is a modern-day American kid who discovers he’s descended from the Greek gods, and that a magical world exists in tandem with our own. An epic battle between supernatural good and evil ensues.
“I felt when we got into this process, that the types of scenes we were getting into, really it was necessary to cast slightly older actors,” says Columbus. “The physicality of some of these battle sequences, the action sequences were very demanding, so we’ve changed that.”
Thoughts?
Also, for the non-PJO fans on my f-list, I apologize for all the PJO-related spam lately. It's my fandom baby. :)