Rick Riordan was famously frustrated by the Percy Jackson movies, but he's looking forward to the Disney+ show.
It’s been a tumultuous decade but Rick Riordan is finally all in again on Percy Jackson and Hollywood. The creator of the popular book franchise was famously unimpressed about how Fox treated his characters with its two movie adaptations, 2010's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and 2013's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Sea of Monsters.
“Now, having been through the production process, I totally get why they did that. It’s much easier to work with older actors,” Riordan said, but he’s glad the series didn’t do that. “Once you have older teens, it’s a completely different dynamic. You lose so much of the wonder. The magic of being a middle grader doesn’t come across the same way. There’s a jaded teenage quality.
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