PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF
Production Notes
Relea Date: February 12, 2010
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Chris Columbus
Screenwriter: Craig Titley
Starring: Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman, Ray Winstone
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG (for action violence and peril, some scary images and suggestive material, and mild language)
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STUDIO SYNOPSIS: It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's Greek mythology texts and into his life. And they're not happy: Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Even more troubling is the sudden disappearance of Percy's mother. As Percy adapts to his newly discovered status as a demi-god (his father is Poidon), he finds himlf caught between the battling titans of Mt. Olympus. He and his friends embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief, save Percy's mom, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themlves.
SYNOPSIS
Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school - but that's the least of his challenges. It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus em to have walked out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology texts and into his life. Percy has learned that his real father is Poidon, god of the a, which means Percy is a demigod - half human, half god. At the same time, the powerful gods on Olympus are feuding, which could launch a war enveloping our entire planet.
Now, Percy must prepare for the adventure of a lifetime, and the stakes couldn't be higher.
With ominous storm clouds brewing over Earth and his own life now in peril, Percy travels to a special enclave called Camp Half Blood, where he trains to harness his newly discovered powers and prevent a devastating war among the gods. There, Percy meets two fellow demigods - the warrior Annabeth, who is arching for her mother, the goddess Athena; and his friend and protector, Grover, who is actually a brave but untested satyr.
Grover and Annabeth then join Percy on an incredible transcontinental odysy that takes them six hundred stories above New York City (the portal to Mount Olympus) and to the iconic Hollywood sign, under which burn the fires of the Underworld. At journey's end rests the fate of the world - and the life of Percy's mother Sally, whom Percy must rescue from the depths of Hell itlf.
Percy Jackson: Half human. Half god. All hero!
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Fox 2000 Pictures prents "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief," the big screen adaptation of author Rick Riordan's #1 New York Times bestller, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. The first of five books in Riordan's ries (the final installment, The Last Olympian, hit bookshelves in May 2009) was published in 2005 and won veral awards, including a
New York Times Notable Book honor of that year; Best Book of 2005 from both the School Library Journal and Child Magazine; and a 2006 Bluebonnet Award nomination from the Texas Library Association.
THE PRODUCTION
Chris Columbus ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," "Home Alone") directed the epic fantasy-adventure starring a trio of rising young stars -- Logan Lerman ("3:10 to Yuma") as the film's title character, the brave, fearless young warrior, Percy Jackson; Brandon T. Jackson ("Tropic Thunder") as the Satyr Grover, Percy's protector who attempts to earn his very first horns while keeping the young demigod out of harm's way; and Alexandra Daddario ("Bereavement") as another demigod, Annabeth, daughter of Athena, who joins Percy on his quest to prevent a devastating war.
Also starring are Sean Bean ("National Treasure") as Zeus, supreme ruler of the gods of Olympus; Pierce Brosnan ("Mamma Mia") as Chiron, the Centaur who runs the special training ground for the demigods while becoming Percy's mentor in explaining his blood connection to the gods; Steve Coogan ("Night at the Muum") as the greedy lord of the Underworld, Hades, who craves a bot项目
weapon he believes is in Percy's posssion; Rosario Dawson ("Sin City") as the goddess Perphone, Zeus' daughter and Hades' long suffering, imprisoned wife; Catherine Keener ("Capote") as Percy's mom, Sally, who is held hostage by Hades in the Underworld; Kevin McKidd ("Grey's Anatomy") as Percy's father (and Zeus' brother and arch rival), Poidon, god of the a; Joe Pantoliano ("The Sopranos") as Percy's slovenly stepdad, Gabe; and Uma Thurman ("Kill Bill") as the mythological Gorgon, Medusa. Jake Abel ("The Lovely Bones") portrays Luke, son of Hermes and one of the demigods who befriend Percy at Camp Half Blood.
种植拼音"Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" filmed in Vancouver, with additional locations in Las Vegas, New York City and Nashville. Twentieth Century Fox releas the film in theaters everywhere on February 12, 2010.
Author Rick Riordan, who taught Greek Mythology for a many years in middle school in California and Texas, came up with the idea for the first Percy Jackson book, which led to four additional novels and a huge fan ba numbering in the millions, after reading the sagas of the ancient Greek heroes as bedtime stories to his son, Haley.
"When I ran out of myths, my son became disappointed," the author relates on his website. "He aske
d me if I could make up some new stories with the same characters. I remembered a creative writing project I ud to do with my sixth graders, which allowed them to create their own demigod hero, the son or daughter of any god they wanted, while having them describe a Greek-style quest for that hero.
"Off the top of my head, I made up Percy Jackson and told Haley all about his quest to recover Zeus' lightning bolt in modern day America. It took about three nights to tell the whole story and, when I was done, Haley told me I should write it out as a book."
Tho three nights ultimately became a yearlong odysy for Riordan (pronounced Rye-or-dan) in completing his first book for young readers (he was already an established author, having written veral prior novels, his first being the Tres Navarre private eye thriller, Big Red Tequila, in 1997).
"I picked a few of my sixth, venth and eighth graders and asked them if they'd be willing to
'test drive' the novel," Riordan continues. "I'm ud to showing my work to adults, and had no idea if kids would like Percy. I finally understood what it must be like for them, turning in an essay to me and waiting to get their grades back! Fortunately, the kids really liked it. They had some good suggestions, too."
永的组词The book was published in 2005, but it would be another five years before Hollywood would bring the first of the Percy Jackson stories to the screen. While the studio explored turning
Riordan's first book into a movie, the author continued the ries by penning a new novel each year between 2006 and 2009.
Chris Columbus was attracted to "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" becau, as he relates, "We haven't en the world of Greek Mythology in a story like this before," he elaborates. "I think Rick Riordan tapped into something quite unique, juxtaposing the world of the ancient Greeks with the underbelly of contemporary America."
Columbus is no stranger to the world of fantasy. In addition to launching the "Harry Potter" film franchi by directing the first two films and rving as a producer on the third, he gained a tremendous following with three of his early, original screenplays: "Gremlins," "The Goonies" and "Young Sherlock Holmes."
Columbus describes his new genre effort as a contemporary adventure meets Greek-Mythology film, as oppod to a pure period-piece Greek myth with gods in flowing robes sitting on billowy clouds. "This story has a n of reality and an epic quality while still portraying a sinister, supernatural battl
e between good and evil," he explains.
To adapt the book, Columbus cho Craig Titley, with whom Columbus and his producing partners at 1492 Pictures had worked on the hit comedy "Cheaper by the Dozen." Titley's scholarly background in Greek Mythology was a timely bonus. "Chris knew I was getting a Ph.D. in mythological studies when he nt the book my way," Titley relates. "I thought this was a perfect assignment for me becau my head was swimming in Greek myths, monsters and heroes. And it's actually the kind of movie I've wanted to e since I was a kid. Mythology has always been hip, and there's kind of a mythology renaissance going on right now in pop culture." Even before Titley turned in his screenplay, Columbus and producer Michael Barnathan pitched their ideas for a "Percy Jackson" movie to the studio, later designing initial conceptual artwork to further illustrate their ideas. "This concept art had Chris' vision and tone for the movie," Barnathan says. "It was important for Chris to design some monsters and creatures bad clearly on old Greek mythological art and concepts, but take it in a new and fresh direction. So, we started our approach on paper with conceptual art. The studio got very excited and saw that this could be bigger than just a young adult story."
起秧子Once they had a visual motif for the project, the filmmakers next turned to the script. "It's a wonderful book, but it's impossible to incorporate all the book's elements into the movie," explains Barnathan. "
What we tried to do was retain the esnce of the story, characters and the world that Rick created, and put it in a cinematic context."
"One of the big changes we made was upping the age of Percy and his friends," Titley notes. "In the book, he was twelve years old. It was just much more fun to make him venteen. With that age, we could play with Percy and Annabeth and their relationship."
"To me, this story was perfect becau it had this whole great world of Greek Mythology populated by monsters we could create and design and put in our world," says Columbus. "And, the heart of the story is about a young man who wants to save his mother and find out who is his
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father is. So that made it a very emotional story. The kind of story I respond to as a director."
多人互动游戏"The movie is very much about parent-child relationships," Barnathan amplifies. "It's the theme that runs through it and is something that connects many of Chris' movies. At the heart of his films there's family. In 'Home Alone' it's a boy who's lost his parents. In 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' the kids are trying to keep their parents together. Here, it's a boy trying to find his father while rescuing his mother - to put his family back together."
"What drives Percy to go on this huge journey is that he wants to save his Mom," says actor Logan Lerman, who plays Percy. "For him, that's bigger than saving the world. During the journey, he finds out that his mother is alive and Hades is holding her captive. So, Percy tries to find a way to get to the Underworld and have Hades relea his mom. That's what drives him to travel cross country and face the [creatures] Hydra and Medusa and undergo lots of other wild adventures. Yes, he goes on this huge journey with his two friends to retrieve Zeus' stolen lightning bolt, and save the world. But, it's really about getting his mom back."
Lerman nabbed the role of the titular hero after Chris Columbus had caught a screening of the western "3:10 to Yuma," in which Lerman co-starred, opposite Rusll Crowe and Christian Bale. But the wheels were t in motion before then. Columbus recalls the casting process: "My assistant, who's been with me for veral years, told me a couple of years ago that if I was ever looking for a young star to be in one of my films, I should check out this movie, '3:10 to Yuma', in which this young man, Logan Lerman, had a key role. I watched the picture and thought he was an amazing actor. When it came time to cast 'Percy Jackson,' I thought of Logan. When I met him, I thought he had the esnce of a potential movie star. Then, he did a screen test and I was completely blown away. Logan is like a forty-year-old person in a venteen-year-old's body. His instincts are so remarkable.
Logan has a n of reality and intensity about him that I haven't en in many young people. He's that fantastic."
Lerman relished working on such a large canvas. "This is a big movie!" Lerman exclaims. "I've never been part of a movie like this, on this level. The size kind of takes you back every day. And, with Chris Columbus attached, this amazing filmmaker, I wouldn't want to put my career in the hands of anybody el.
"I didn't realize what I got mylf into when I started," the young actor notes about winning the film's title role. "I'm like, 'who did I fool to get to this point?' It never really hit me until I got to Vancouver [to begin filming] and saw the amazing ts. They built The Parthenon, the Metropolitan Muum of Art, Mount Olympus and the enormous Lotus Hotel and Casino." Keeping a watchful eye on Percy is his best friend, Grover, a mythological creature known as a satyr - a half man, half goat related to the Roman mythological creature Faunus. Grover has been entrusted with protecting Percy on their transcontinental odysy, which is a challenge for Grover on two fronts: He's a newbie at the protection thing, and in typical satyr fashion, he has a keen eye for the ladies. The latter fact didn't go unnoticed by Jackson during his rearch for the role. "Satyrs are wild creatures," Jackson notes. "Grover has issues with women. In mythology, satyrs always hung around with nymphs. In this story,
Grover has a big crush on Perphone [Hades' wife, played by Rosario Dawson] and she has a crush on him. But, he's not ud to a
