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Directed by | Thor Freudenthal |
Screenplay by | Marc Guggenheim |
Based on | The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan |
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Cinematography | Shelly Johnson |
Edited by | Mark Goldblatt |
Music by | Andrew Lockington |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 106 minutes [1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $90 million [3] |
Box office | $200.9 million [4] |
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (also known as Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters and Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters) is a 2013 fantasy adventure film directed by Thor Freudenthal from a screenplay by Marc Guggenheim, based on the 2006 novel The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan. The sequel to Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), it is the second and final installment in the Percy Jackson film series.
The film continues the adventures of Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) and his friends as they journey to the eponymous Sea of Monsters to retrieve the Golden Fleece in order to save the tree barrier that protects their home. Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, and Jake Abel reprise their roles from the previous film, while Nathan Fillion and Anthony Head replace Dylan Neal and Pierce Brosnan, respectively. New additions to the cast include Leven Rambin, Douglas Smith, and Stanley Tucci.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters was released theatrically in the United States on August 7, 2013, by 20th Century Fox. The film received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, with praise for its visuals and action, but criticism for its plot and characters. It grossed $200.9 million worldwide against a production budget of $90 million. A sequel based on The Titan's Curse was planned, but never produced. Following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney in 2019, Disney consequently gained the rights to the Percy Jackson novels, upon which Riordan pitched a television adaptation that debuted on Disney+ in 2023.
Seven years before the events of the film, young Annabeth Chase, Thalia Grace, Luke Castellan and Grover Underwood were pursued by monsters on their way to Camp Half Blood. When Thalia sacrificed herself to save her friends, her father, Zeus, honored her act by turning her into a tree, which formed a protective barrier around the camp, keeping everyone inside within a safe zone.
In the present day, Percy Jackson now attends camp and has befriended Annabeth and Grover. His quest for Zeus's lightning bolt [a] has faded in popularity and he is called a one-quest wonder by camp bully Clarisse La Rue. He is joined at camp by a young cyclops named Tyson, a previously unknown son of a sea-nymph and Poseidon, and therefore Percy's half-brother. After camp is attacked by a Colchis bull, the campers discover Thalia's tree has been poisoned by Luke and the barrier is weakening.
Annabeth learns about the healing powers of the Golden Fleece, which Grover senses is located off the coast of Florida, and they propose a quest to retrieve it to heal Thalia's tree. As it will involve crossing the Sea of Monsters (Known to humans as the Bermuda Triangle), camp counsellor Mr. D denies them, but then claims the idea as his own and selects Clarisse for the quest.
Meanwhile, Percy consults the Oracle of Delphi, who tells of a prophecy that a half-blood of one of the three elder gods will one day either save or destroy Olympus. Chiron informs him that, as he is the only living human half-blood of the eldest gods, the Prophecy may refer to him.
Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Tyson decide to leave camp in pursuit of the Fleece. They ride in the Chariot of Damnation (a New York City cab) as far as Washington D.C., where its drivers - the Graeae - eject them for lacking drachmas. Luke's cronies kidnap Grover and, with the help of Hermes, the others track him down to Luke's yacht, "The Andromeda", where they are captured after boarding.
Aided by other disillusioned demi-gods, Luke reveals his intention to use the Fleece to resurrect Kronos the titan and have him destroy Olympus. Luke imprisons the group, but Percy uses his ability to manipulate water to break them free. Luke sets his Manticore on the group, but they escape aboard one of the yacht's lifeboats.
The group crosses the Sea of Monsters, where they are swallowed by Charybdis, who has also swallowed Clarisse and her warship. They escape by blasting their way out of Charybdis's gut and Percy guides the ship towards the coast of Florida. Landing there, they find the Fleece guarded by the cyclops Polyphemus in his lair, as well as Grover, disguised as a cyclops.
They rescue Grover, retrieve the Fleece and trap Polyphemus, but they are ambushed by Luke. He makes Percy hand over the Fleece, while Tyson is shot with a crossbow while trying to protect Percy and falls into a roaring stream.
As Luke begins reviving Kronos, Percy escapes capture and confronts him, aided by Tyson, who survived his wound after being healed by the water, as he is Poseidon's son. Kronos rises from his sarcophagus and Percy engages him in battle, eventually using Poseidon's sword to defeat and re-imprison the titan. Annabeth is impaled by the Manticore and dies, but is resurrected by the Fleece.
The group returns to camp, where Chiron expresses uncertainty as to whether Percy has fulfilled the prophecy by preventing Luke's plan to destroy Olympus. Clarisse places the Fleece on Thalia's tree, which restores the barrier, but also resurrects Thalia. Percy realizes that, as Thalia is the daughter of Zeus, the prophecy of Olympus could now also refer to her.
Reports of a second Percy Jackson film first surfaced in March 2011. [13] [14] On October 12, 2011, a sequel was officially confirmed by 20th Century Fox. [15] Filming for Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters began on April 16, 2012. The film was originally going to be released on March 15, 2013, [16] but in May 2012, the release date was postponed to August 16, 2013. [17] In April 2013, a final release date was set for August 7, 2013. [18] Filming took place in Robert Burnaby Park in Burnaby, B.C.; however from June 20 to July 22, they filmed in New Orleans for Princess Andromeda scenes, [19] including the former site of Six Flags New Orleans. [20] More filming took place in January 2013. On January 22, 2013, Logan Lerman released a statement on Twitter that read "Last day of shooting on Percy Jackson 2" accompanied by a photo of the shooting. [21]
In February 2011, it was revealed in the online subscription magazine Production Weekly that the film was in production. [22] In another source, the lead cast members from the first movie were expected to return for their roles. Chris Columbus would not be returning as director, though he would be producing the movie together with Karen Rosenfelt (producer of the Twilight movie Breaking Dawn). Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were hired as the scriptwriters. [23] Marc Guggenheim was hired to re-write the screenplay and Alexander and Karaszewski were uncredited. On June 16, 2011, it was announced that Thor Freudenthal would be directing the movie. [24] Shooting began in summer 2012. On October 12, 2011, it was announced that the film would be released on March 26, 2013. On April 6, it was announced that the movie was pushed up to August 7, 2013. [25] On May 31, 2012, it was announced that the movie had been pushed back to August 16, 2013. [26]
On January 13, 2012, a brand new production list was released and stated that filming would take place between April 26, 2012 and July 11, 2012. [27] [28] It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, with the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans serving as the filming location for the island of Polyphemus. Filming wrapped in July 2012, with reshoots taking place in January 2013. [29] [30]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 42% based on reviews from 117 critics, with an average rating of 5.20/10. The website's consensus reads, "It's pretty and packed with action; unfortunately, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is also waterlogged with characters and plots that can't help but feel derivative." [31] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 39 based on 33 collected reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [32] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on a scale from A+ to F, the same grade earned by the previous film. [33]
Jim Vejvoda of IGN rated the movie a six out of ten: "There are worse sequels than the CG-heavy Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, but it's just such overly familiar territory." [34] Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, saying that "tweens and young teens should be sufficiently distracted by the movie's brisk pace and heroic mayhem — if they're not too unnerved by its at times nightmarish imagery". [35] James Rocchi of ScreenCrush wrote that the film "is hardly the stuff of legend, but by keeping the plot straightforward and the storytelling clean, it's an odyssey the intended young audience will be glad to take." [36] Marsha McCreadie on RogerEbert.com rated the film two and a half stars out of four, calling it "a gentler-spirited, less flashy enterprise, though it still presents a natural world that can morph at the whim of a god." [37]
Andy Webster of The New York Times commented: "Sea of Monsters is diverting enough — the director, Thor Freudenthal ... is savvy with effects and keeps his young cast on point — but it doesn’t begin to approach the biting adolescent tension of the Harry Potter movies." [38] However, Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter criticized the film as "lack[ing] the energetic zip of its predecessor," [39] while Bruce Ingram of Chicago Sun-Times opined that "faithful fans of the novels will be unhappy with the liberties taken with the adaptation like they were with the first film." [40] Connie Ogle of The Miami Herald wrote, "[Are] these characters merely prisoners — much like the audience — of a script so uninspired that it demands their stupidity?" [41] Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly lambasted the series as a whole as "a thoroughly second-rate franchise ... with movies like Sea of Monsters, it can probably continue in acceptable mediocrity for years to come". [42]
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters grossed $68,559,554 in North America and $133,688,197 internationally for a worldwide total of $202,247,751.
The film grossed $5.4 million on its opening day, taking the second spot at the domestic box office. [43] During its extended five-day opening weekend, the film debuted at number four and grossed $23,258,113. [44]
Katelyn Mager was nominated for her performance at the 2014 Young Artist Award as Best Supporting Young Actress in a Feature Film. [45]
The film's score was composed by Andrew Lockington. [46] "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" by Fall Out Boy and "Cameo Lover" by Kimbra were featured in the movie but are not included in the soundtrack.
The film was released on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 17, 2013. The film was additionally released for Digital HD download on December 3. [47] [48]
On March 25, 2014, Lerman stated that a sequel to Sea of Monsters would not be made. [49] However, six days later, another report stated "Logan Lerman has said Percy Jackson 3 could still go ahead" and that the previous report was "taken out of context". [50] At the 2015 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Lerman said that while he finds the Percy Jackson films fun to make, he has not heard anything about the production of a third film and expressed concern that he and his co-stars were growing too old for their parts. [51]
The rights to the Percy Jackson novels were transferred to Disney following its acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019, upon which Riordan pitched a new adaptation in September of that year. [52] On May 14, 2020, a Disney+ series separate from the Fox film series was announced on Riordan's Twitter account, where he stated that he and his wife Becky would be involved in the production of the series. [53] [54] Each season of the series would adapt one installment of the book series, with the first season being an adaptation of The Lightning Thief. [55] The series was greenlit in January 2022, [56] began production in June 2022, [57] and premiered on December 19, 2023. [58] Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri respectively portray the three leads Percy, Annabeth and Grover. [59] [60]
The Lightning Thief is a 2005 American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology, the first children's novel by Rick Riordan. The opening installment in the series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, the book was recognized among the year's best for children. Riordan followed the novel with various books and spin-off series, spawning the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles media franchise.
The Titan's Curse is an American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan. It was released on May 1, 2007, and is the third novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and the sequel to The Sea of Monsters. It is about the adventures of the 14-year-old demigod Percy Jackson as he and his friends go on a dangerous quest to rescue his 14-year-old demigod friend Annabeth Chase and the Greek goddess Artemis, who have both been kidnapped by the Titan Atlas.
The Sea of Monsters is an American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan and published in 2006. It is the second novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and the sequel to The Lightning Thief. This book chronicles the adventures of thirteen-year-old demigod Percy Jackson as he and his friends rescue his satyr friend Grover from the Cyclops Polyphemus and save Camp Half-Blood from a Titan's attack by bringing the Golden Fleece to cure Thalia's poisoned pine tree.
Camp Half-Blood Chronicles is a media franchise created by author Rick Riordan, encompassing three five-part novel series, two short-story collections, two myth anthology books, a stand-alone short story, three crossover short stories, an essay collection, multiple guides, nine graphic novels, two films, a live action tv series, a video game, a musical, and other media. Set in the modern world, it focuses on groups of demigod teenagers, and features many characters from Greek and Roman mythology. The first series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, follows the adventures of a boy named Percy Jackson at a summer camp for Greek demigods. The second series, The Heroes of Olympus, introduces several more lead characters and a second camp for Roman demigods named Camp Jupiter in San Francisco. The third series, The Trials of Apollo, follows the now-mortal god Apollo on a quest to free the Oracle's and defeat three Roman emperors to reclaim his godhood, with appearances by many characters from the first and second series.
The Battle of the Labyrinth is an American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the fourth novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. The novel was first published in the United States on 6 May 2008 by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Publishing Worldwide. It has been published in hardcover, audiobook, ebook, and large-print editions. The Battle of the Labyrinth has been translated into 29 languages from its original English.
The Last Olympian is a fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology by Rick Riordan, published on May 5, 2009. It is the fifth novel of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and is the direct sequel to The Battle of the Labyrinth. The Last Olympian revolves around the demigod Percy Jackson as he leads his friends in a last stand to protect Mount Olympus.
Perseus "Percy" Jackson is a fictional character, the title character and narrator of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He is also one of seven main protagonists of the sequel series The Heroes of Olympus, appearing in every book except The Lost Hero, and appears in the Trials of Apollo series, making him one of the few characters to appear in all three series of the Camp Half-Blood chronicles. He has also been a narrator and protagonist in Riordan's Greco-Roman/Egyptian crossover stories, part of the Demigods and Magicians collection. The character serves as the narrator in Percy Jackson's Greek Gods and Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, also by Rick Riordan.
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is a 2010 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and written by Craig Titley, based on the 2005 novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. The film is the first installment in the Percy Jackson film series. It stars Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson alongside an ensemble cast that includes Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, and Uma Thurman.
The Heroes of Olympus is a pentalogy of fantasy-adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan. The novels detail a conflict between Greek demigods, Roman demigods, and Gaea. In the fourth book of the series, there is also a fight against Tartarus, which, in Greek mythology, was the darkest and deepest point of the Underworld.
The Son of Neptune is a 2011 fantasy-adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology. It is the second book in The Heroes of Olympus series, preceded by The Lost Hero and followed by The Mark of Athena. The story follows the adventures of amnesiac Percy Jackson, a demigod son of Neptune, also known as Poseidon, as he meets a camp of Roman demigods and goes to Alaska with his new friends Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang to free the Greek god of death, Thanatos, and help save the world from Gaea, the earth goddess. The novel is narrated in the third-person, switching between the points of view of Percy, Frank, and Hazel.
The Demigod Diaries is a collection of short stories relating to The Heroes of Olympus book series.
The House of Hades is a fantasy-adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology. It was published on October 8, 2013, and is the fourth book in The Heroes of Olympus series, preceded by The Mark of Athena and followed by The Blood of Olympus.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a two-film series based on the novel series of the same name by the author Rick Riordan. The series was distributed by 20th Century Fox, produced by 1492 Pictures and consists of two installments. The first film, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), was directed by Chris Columbus and was released on February 12, 2010. The second installment, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, was originally intended to be released in March 2013 but was instead pushed back to August 7, 2013, and was directed by Thor Freudenthal. While the film series was intended to match the five novel book series, and the second film laid the foundation for a third film, further films were never produced. The shortened series in total grossed nearly $430 million at the worldwide box office. A reboot television series premiered on Disney+ in December 2023.
The Son of Sobek is a 2013 fantasy short story written by Rick Riordan, first released in the paperback version of The Serpent's Shadow on May 7, 2013 and as a single e-book on June 18, 2013. On April 5, 2016, it was released as the first of three short stories in a hardcover novel entitled Demigods and Magicians: Percy and Annabeth Meet the Kanes.
The Staff of Serapis is the sequel to The Son of Sobek and the second book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians/The Kane Chronicles crossover series. It was released in the back of the paperback version of The Mark of Athena on April 8, 2014 and as a single e-book and single audio book on May 20, 2014. On April 5, 2016, it was released as the second of three short stories in a hardcover novel entitled Demigods and Magicians: Percy and Annabeth Meet the Kanes.
The Lightning Thief is a musical with music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki and a book by Joe Tracz, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Rick Riordan. The musical follows Percy Jackson, a 12-year-old boy who newly discovers that he is a demigod and goes on a quest to find Zeus' missing lightning bolt and prevent a war between the Greek gods.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is an American fantasy television series created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg for Disney+, based on the book series of the same name by Riordan. Walker Scobell stars as Percy Jackson, alongside Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood.