A Dramatic Reading of Rick Riordan's Emails to Percy Jackson Producers | areadersworld

now I want to use "the dialogue needs to sparkle" in a review

[@alucardthespy5539]

After watching the movie first, reading the book, and then watching the movie again... it really is the best way to describe the dialogue in the books, "It sparkles"

[@kineticstishi]

@@alucardthespy5539 same, but I didn't read them in order. I saw someone in my primary school with Demigod Files, borrowed it, read it then loved it. When you read the books from Titan's curse after watching the movies, you can just tell everything is wrong. You keep hearing about how Ares and Percy fought but you ask yourself when??? Hopefully Disney will make a better reboot, and Netflix makes a good Kane Chronicles.

[@alucardthespy5539]

@@kineticstishi Wait, is Netflix doing the Kane Chronicles? Also, can't wait for the Percy Jackson on Disney+

[@kineticstishi]

@@alucardthespy5539 Yep, It will be a film though. Rick will be involved in both

[@alucardthespy5539]

@@kineticstishi Well now I'm really excited

[@MissJessicat94]

No-one hates the Percy Jackson movies more than Rick Riordan.

[@Viva-qd2bo]

And he hasn't even seen them

[@thatreadermar]

@@Viva-qd2bo he hasn't !? Oh gods he's really a king

[@for3stlov3r]

clearly you haven't met me

[@carmen2412]

He has the right

[@alexjewett7455]

And he has every right to hate those awful awful awful movies

[@kingminos6092]

Just imagine how good the movies would be if Rick Riordan had written it

[@sketcher445]

king minos if the book was the script, he would’ve

[@amypark1274]

Honestly anybody who is a fan of percy jackson would much rather watch a 20+ hour movie with every single little detail from the books made in real life than the pjo movies... only if the producers actually had common sense...

[@foofy.friend]

Lol he'd just hand them the book and say "Well, this is the completed final copy of the script." then leave.

[@goodnight-moon564]

king minos We’d all probably be watching them right now then

[@goodnight-moon564]

Gacha Katicorn Yes! That should’ve happened!

[@carlyvandersluys]

percy jackson producers: *ages characters to 17 against rick’s wishes* harry potter producers: *apologizes profusely to j.k. rowling for making harry’s eyes blue instead of green*

[@michalkatec.6841]

Carly Vandersluys it wasn’t the producers fault eye colors weren’t accurate for Harry Potter and Voldemort. That’s why they felt so bad, it was the early 2000s, so doing CGI on the eyes would look scary. So they just did what was safer.

[@carlyvandersluys]

Michal Kate C. that doesn’t really change anything about my previous statement though lol. the producers of pj could’ve done what was safer by making the characters 12 instead of 17, but they didn’t, against ricks wishes. whereas in hp, the producers didn’t even have a choice and they still apologized profusely.

[@elianna838]

They tried to make them green but Dan had a reaction to the green contact lenses :(

[@fanofstuff1607]

Elianna Although he literally wears contact lenses now

[@carpediem4091]

@@fanofstuff1607 it was 20 years ago. Contact lenses have evolved. I used to wear contacts and my eyes rejected them and they would get really red. Now I use them without any problem.

[@emmahuggins5614]

ma'am i believe they are called, " Peter Johnson Movies."

[@foofy.friend]

Mr. D is quaking in his Hawaiian shirts

[@BlazeDupree1525]

I thought it was parry Johanson

[@QuigleTheGnome]

Gacha Katicorn wasn’t it like leopard print shirt

[@foofy.friend]

@@QuigleTheGnome it was a Hawaiian shirt tiger stripes or leopard spots

[@BlazeDupree1525]

@@QuigleTheGnome Poseidon wears Hawaiian shirts Mr.D wears tiger print shirts

[@kierstencampbell5371]

“The Percy Jackson books are for 9-12 year olds” me as a high schooler still re reading the books that I originally read in 6th grade

[@KatBaumgarten]

Me, a grown ass 25 year-old:

[@king_nimble]

I walked into a barnes&nobles with my son and gf. I looked everywhere for the books and found them on the shelf by the play area. I’m 25 and felt attacked lol

[@sm4carnageihope]

24 and still reading

[@sm4carnageihope]

24 and still reading

[@hazellevesque8809]

Same here bro

[@macewindu3492]

Percy Jackson movies? There are no movies

[@a.mushroom8257]

Mace Windu yes only Peter Johnson movies

[@physicsnerd1742]

The movies have been burning in the pits of Tartarus since their idea of making Percy 17.

[@NapaCat]

Wish that were true...

[@huntergrammarly]

Mai Cwajbaum it is true. Hush now child

[@tobistein6639]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

[@Torianadouglas]

The fact that Rick Riordan literally told them what they were doing wrong before they finished just makes this so much worse. If only they'd listened

[@lauramartens30]

Is that a LUNAR CHRONICLES profile picture I see?? Im getting way too excited about this lol

[@Torianadouglas]

@@lauramartens30 indeed it is! And I get excited to see other lunartics too! It’s one of my favorite series.

[@ender4344]

I agree. It baffles me that they didn't listen to the _author of the book they're adapting._ like, _are you kidding me?_

[@ender4344]

Also a fellow lunar chronicles fan! :D I ADORE this series

[@RavensCake]

Dude I love the lunar chronicles I need to reread it sometimes

[@raventhebird1090]

I would be nice if Annabeth has blonde curly hair. But no…stupid producers.

[@michalkatec.6841]

Raven The Bird and if she was a teenager..

[@goodgoodmeme]

Don’t ya know, tv producers think that naturally curly hair is ugly and gross so how could the main love interest have it

[@forgemakesstuff2734]

I hate how in the movies Annabeth is stupid. Like, the first scene she goes up to Percy and is like “I’m better than you” and FIVE MINUTES LATER he beats her in capture the flag Meanwhile, in the books from heaven, the first thing she says to him is “you drool when you sleep” and he doesn’t by any means win capture the flag. He almost f**king drowns before magical sea dad powers kick in

[@lukaseldenrust2637]

witches_warlocks but they do that in the second movie... which makes it look like she bleached her hair

[@MidnightDawn]

I don't mind the hair color, it annoys me but whatever, what makes me hate the movies is that they don't even FOLLOW THE PLOT. Like if a movie changes a few details whatever, depending on how big the detail is it goes from annoying to eh whatever, but when the movies don't even follow the plot of the books? That pisses me off.

[@min4161]

I watched the two percy Jackson movies before reading the books and thought it was ok. Then I went on to reading the book and since then, I have been disgusted with the movies and the book series have become one of my favourite book series' of all time

[@juliarhapsody]

that is exactly what happened with me

[@sara13rose89]

Same

[@johnny-vx1ct]

Same

[@hello-sf4sy]

Same

[@geans_is_asleep]

Same

[@watakashe6072]

Rick: this is god awful Producers: *DID I ASK???*

[@x-menlol1613]

More like am I bovvered

[@cammeralea]

Gods awful.

[@watakashe6072]

@@cammeralea Oh yes my bad

[@goodnight-moon564]

It’s dam awful

[@NicklasZandeVGCP2001]

So, what he's saying is that Chris did plan on making Harry, Ron and Hermione older, but JK Rowling said, "No! They are supposed to be 11, because, 17 is the legal voting and drinking age in The Wizarding World, and it just so happens that it's the age they graduate from Hogwartz, and 11 is the age you are supposed to be when you become a Hogwartz student, plus, the characters are supposed to age throughout the series. If you bump them up to 17, then Hogwartz becomes irrelevant, since they are already at the legal voting and drinking age, and, the characters will most likely reach their middle ages when the Battle of Hogwartz takes place." And so he didn't, but he thought he could get away with it adapting Percy Jackson, which by the way, according to Rick Riordon, he didn't, and the film franchise stopped after two movies because Logan Lerman was too bloody old by the time The Titan's Curse was supposed to be made.

[@MadameCorgi]

aging the characyers up to 17 in H.P is so stupid i'm dumbfounded

[@angelambrosia6397]

If they ruin the emo Cinnamon Roll All hell will break loose

[@crystalcollision5432]

i thought it stopped because it was doing bad financially and no one cared to invest in it anymore (not to mention their major threat of Kronos was stopped in the sea of monsters for some idiotic reason so there'd be nothing else to do but bring Gaia in prematurely (but seeing as no one read past the second book clearly they wouldn't know about her))

[@skylergulley3949]

@@crystalcollision5432 If I remember correctly both movies were ok financially

[@crystalcollision5432]

@@skylergulley3949 but just ok. the second one made less than the first. Im guessing they assumed that continuing any further would just get them less and less profit

[@HJPaige]

The only positive thing about the movies is that _no one_ associates the movies with the books or Rick Riordan.

[@achild7235]

Gripen Draken EXEPT NICO DI ANGELO AND WILL SOLACE

[@bluewhelan3816]

wdym Except Nico and Will

[@evlovesbooks]

@@bluewhelan3816 That they're not straight

[@bluewhelan3816]

@@evlovesbooks bdufbfhr ohhh my bad

[@icecubeeater5122]

Rick Riordan is a absolute lad

[@screwtapee]

Y E S

[@squidneythesquid2487]

Katelyn Cook a mad lad

[@faith7135]

Squidneythe Squid r/madlads

[@Tar-Numendil]

I wish Warner Brothers could have done the Percy Jackson movies. The Harry Potter movies aren't perfect adaptations, but they're very good. If this had happened we might have gotten at least a halfway decent Percy Jackson movie or movies.

[@kathrinlindern2697]

The one thing that always leaves me amazed is that this is from the same director who did the first two Harry Potter films. It really is. So I doubt the studio would have made a difference...

[@sah-z7o]

Kathrin Lindern but Columbus did want to make a lot of changes which J.K. Rowling didn't allow - because the studio still gave her creative control over the story

[@anaumireem29]

What has me amazed is that you think that you can actually call the Harry Potter movies the Harry Potter movies

[@Devdev009]

Kathrin Lindern You’re absolutely right, normally I’d have pointed my finger at Fox chair Tom Rothman (responsible for the disastrous X-Men movies among other things/Deadpool mouth sew), but having read those Columbus interviews I know it was all him

[@elisedutcher4923]

Yea D:

[@elias123456789ist]

Let's hope disney/netflix will remake percy Jackson into a tv series. We got Narnia and the golden compass reboot though:)

[@juliarhapsody]

Yeah but I feel like there is too many reboots

[@mandymagnolia1966]

I come from the future to inform you that Rick is in talks with Disney to see about doing a reboot on Disney+ 🙌🏻

[@winter-chan2092]

I feel like Disney would be a better partner than whatever the films are made because literally, they use contact lenses and lots of the actors fits the description of the characters

[@FloreMar-yp3iz]

@@mandymagnolia1966 Im not sure if this is good or bad Because I'm fucking poor and I wouldn't can watch it. But at least some people would :D

[@pastelsuqar8841]

Elias Evensen No it will suck, they will make the characters black

[@mirandabee2323]

I remember when my friend and I heard they aged up the characters. We joked that it was so by the time they adapted The Titan's Curse, the actors would be old enough to have actual gray streaks in their hair, so that would be one fewer thing for the costume/hair/makeup people to do. 😂 We were 12 or 13, okay?

[@amypark1274]

Hahaha 😂 so true tho...

[@sophiaredwood5825]

LOL, I love that 😂😂

[@cammeralea]

Yeah, by that time Percy and Annabeth wouldn’t need to hold the sky up to have a streak of gray hair.

[@PeytonReads]

Wow that makes me so mad that they did not listen at all

[@juliarhapsody]

Peyton Reads like they just saw the email and just deleted from their inbox

[@zoealexandra9976]

I know!!!

[@bea4828]

I think they should've kept Percy twelve not because he reflects on the audience but because I always saw that aspect as a tragedy, although not really pointed out that I can remember in the books, sense Greek has lots of tragedies, its kind of one of the main themes of many myths and Rick definitely understands that so the fact that he's twelve not only shows that it's a family story but because this is where Percy's life goes downhill at a young age

[@michalkatec.6841]

Gabe Fum they should’ve done it like they filmed the Harry Potter films, where they got kids who were around the age (so 12-14 year olds) and looked like the characters.

[@bea4828]

@@michalkatec.6841 yep. And then a film every 1-2 (maybe 3) years so the actors still look young enough to be 14, 15, 16 Hardest part would be Heroes Of Olympus cause they don't age then again they could change that sense the age isn't as important (that I know of, I just started reading Son Of Neptune)

[@jay8569]

@@bea4828 They could film HoO in one go, like Lord of the Rings. It would probably take a over a year (maybe two, idk), which means the characters wouldn't age too much, or not even visibly.

[@bea4828]

@@jay8569 well that could work, just note its 5 films instead of 3 which would mean it would need the biggest budget of all time for all 5 and would take a pretty long time, and it would make the studio go into a deep depression because if they fail then they would lose a *lot* of money.

[@KingJori_]

Bro, PJO could’ve eclipsed HP as the greatest fantasy film-book series of all time if they nailed the movies (books were already better imo). What with the character development, major plot movement, and follow up series (HoO), it could’ve been great. Guess we’re gonna have to stick to our own dam (uwu) noggins to get the job done. Great vid.

[@dylanchristman978]

I really dont want to see jason die on film

[@SatoreyGojo]

@@dylanchristman978 that's in trials of Apollo so your fine

[@winter-chan2092]

Excuse me but have you seen Annabeths hair and eyes in the movies?Even Rick was disgusted.

[@winter-chan2092]

And yes Jason dies in the Burning maze :c

[@octaviovazquez543]

All they would have to do is change the HoO final battles and it would be golden

[@rotemtamir3404]

I can't even imagine how badly if felt for Rick to see those people butcher his books

[@Arlothed1no]

I hate when movies change the age of the character to adapt to an older audience. Like Rick said, who do you think is gonna watch this? People the same age as the characters. That's why teens liked twilight and hunger games. Because the characters were teens in the books. It attracted teens straight from the beginning. Percy jackson attracted middle schoolers. Because the characters started as middle schoolers.

[@Arlothed1no]

@@purestrangeness1839 middle schoolers are teenagers

[@yourlocaltheatrekid900]

Right! I started reading Percy Jackson in 6th grade and I was so happy because I got to read books about someone my age. The movies were honestly horrible, and keeping them at age twelve could have been so easy -_-

[@rebeccakoch1890]

@@purestrangeness1839 but that's because we grew up with it, same reason I would watch a good spiderwick adaptation (I'm 23)

[@TF2Fan101]

Hence why Sonic the Hedgehog beat Birds of Prey at the box office.

[@conserztasfia0078]

Thats a lie i am 14 I never loved twilight cz the story is stupid And i love harry potter and pjo cz they are epic It has nothing to do with age it has to do with stories And FYI ezra miller who played credence barebone in fb series said"i am 24 but i am still obsessed with hp"

[@ThatOneSaxophone]

Percy in movies: defeats Kronos and revives Thalia “Could the Great Prophecy be about someone else?” Me: You mean the great prophesy you just completed?

[@RF-mc8cx]

Ikr 🤣

[@eebertdeebert]

ahahaha

[@cherrygryffindor5331]

Lol

[@conserztasfia0078]

Exactly Lol and also the hero wasnt even him it was luke and his cursed blade

[@amberinoface]

ERAGON IT PROBABLY WAS ERAGON. I loved this video so much

[@juliarhapsody]

amberinoface AHHH YEAH YOURE PROBABLY RIGHT. Thank you

[@jdao1sm]

Someone talks about it in the comments on the new Artemis fowl trailer. I’m pretty sure it’s not Eragon.

[@longlivethegays]

either Eragon or Artemis Fowl, both beloved book series potentially ruined

[@musicandloveismylive]

I thought it could have also been the golden compass

[@mirandaskylar9094]

@@longlivethegays These emails were sent in around 2010 it was not AF

[@QuigleTheGnome]

I have a theory Rick is the source of all Persassy-ness in the universe

[@eebertdeebert]

What about Leo Valsassiness?

[@kn1ght-788]

ASHmellow That too

[@franziska9260]

Magnus Chasassiness

[@icebird1800]

Sassibeth Chase

[@tooogit5952]

i mean, he did write the books... so... maybe?

[@prinppa]

Others writers: my books' films sucks Rick Riordan: hold my ambrosia

[@TF2Fan101]

Eoin Colfer: Mind if I join you guys?

[@prinppa]

@@TF2Fan101 jskahdisbjd

[@Leila-ni3xz]

Do you mean Nectre

[@flaminghotcheetos2706]

honestly this comment is underrated

[@prinppa]

@@Leila-ni3xz oh my that would make more sense LOL

[@justarandommoa08]

Rick Riordan is the type of guy who would take it upon himself to fix SOMEONE ELSE'S MISTAKE to preserve our faith in him. Absolute King.

[@cheyfisher1114]

the movie made me want to smash my tv. HORRIBLE. can’t make my self watch past the part where Hades shows up at camp half blood. That NEVER HAPPENED

[@itspunishmenttime6325]

IKR! HADES IS NOT EVEN A BAD GUY, AND THEY MADE HIM THE ANTAGONIST

[@joshcp1223]

The luke battle at the end never happened either

[@dm_dude]

Gol D. Raizo Yeah! I just wasn’t my scorpion and everything would be fine. But no, they need to mess this up. All of this. The entire movie.

[@esejsnake1503]

@@itspunishmenttime6325 I'm always like DAMN YOU HADES IS MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER!!!! Why would YOU RUIN THIS?!

[@Yingyanglord1]

@@esejsnake1503 and changes like that prove they never read the books themselves and better yet how the second movie starts in the middle of the story which has the issue of we have no fucking clue what's happening

[@gabbiepoppins]

honestly the emails themselves are petty enough,but the dramatic reading is giving me so much life

[@katiey4524]

When I read Percy Jackson, I didn’t know there were movies. I was in my local library looking for movies and stumbled across Percy Jackson. I was thrilled and I was stunned I hadn’t heard of it. As a naive 12 year-old, I didn’t know that because I hadn’t heard of it it probably wasn’t good. I watched it with my dad and kept saying “they changed this” and “they changed that”. By the end of the movie, I was disgusted and outraged about how they had butchered the plot and characters. Because I had checked out both, I watched the second as well. I was shocked that it practically skipped to the end of the series. It was awful and horrifying as a book fan to watch. Rick had it right at the start. The producers either didn’t know how to read or were quite simply idiots. I am pleading and hoping that we get a reboot so that PJ fans of the future have an adaptation to look forward to.

[@dianamakowski9538]

He literally offered to rewrite their entire script, and they just went no.

[@clnne]

i just have the producers gone out yet and admitted they did a crappy job? because honestly, pjo could have become the next harry potter (or bigger cough) and it's all down the drain. these non-existent readers arent 9-12 where they are forced (in a good way) to read books and be motivated for and from them ugh. it's so infuriating. i can proudly say i found out what percy jackson was only after reading the kane chronicles instead of the movie.

[@Cheetomelito]

I found out about when I was fourteen and my best friend wanted me to give the book a try and naturally I loved it😄

[@amypark1274]

I always used to hear about it from my friends but i was just busy (re)reading harry potter so i didnt really care too much about it but our language arts teacher gave us an assignment on the lightning thief and since then, well i fell down a rabbit hole... i could have been reading this since i was 9 only if i listened to my friends 😂

[@workinprogress94]

I found out because my third grade teacher read us the first book in class

[@maxmottram8612]

I personally took it from Magnus chase (I went to Percy Jackson immediately after I found out it was the first.

[@moon_marina]

I bought them in an used books store for about 10 dollars cheaper and it was worth it :) I then read magnus chase before TOA and that last scene with annabeth made me absolutely heartbroken because SOMETHING MUST HAVE HAPPENED FOR HER TO BE CRYING

[@toastdee]

Let’s be honest the entire Percy Jackson movie series would be better if Rick wrote it I also need to see the musical

[@tobistein6639]

It's pretty good! If you know Be More Chill, the guy who plays Michael is cast as Grover.

[@goodjobeli]

@@tobistein6639 he was only in the off broadway + cast album version. he was replaced for the tour and limited broadway run bc he was doing bmc, and its gonna be a new cast for a different tour later this year (if that ever happens bc covid).

[@sparkydoodle96]

I need a StarKid-Rick collab asap

[@whatalovelybreadstick2449]

sparkydoodle96 YES WE NEED A GREEK MYTHOLOGY STARKID MUSICAL

[@sunshinesolace3540]

@@sparkydoodle96 I would absolutely love to see that.

[@blueskiesandstarrynights]

"All hell is gonna break loose" Me, someone who has read the emails: yup

[@nightfuryrevenge1825]

Anyone else wants to see the original movie script with Uncle Rick’s notes?

[@nidhipareek5586]

Yes yes omg now that you have said it I want to see the dam script take 2 photocopies of it return the original to uncle Rick keep one with me and I would divide the script into pieces for everyone who messed up the movies then paint the cover blue wrap the cover around the scripts and make them eat it like a dam satyr pick them up and throw them in Tartaurus Sorry I had to let my anger out somewhere

[@nothingpenguin7576]

In the first email they were probably talking about how bad Eragon was, that movie was horrifically disappointing and appealed to a similar audience. Plus it came out 3 years before they started work on The Lightning Thief and they were both from 20th Century Fox. I suppose it could have also been about The Golden Compass (another huge disappointment) which had a closer targeted age demographic to Percy Jackson but that one was from New Line Cinema.

[@carlysand7771]

Eragon was so bad I hadn't even heard it was turned into a movie... Ooh that's rough

[@Gal2100]

Carly Sand hopefully like the golden compass, it has a good tv seriesfor it

[@shadow7287]

Here, here.

[@charlleedodson]

When I first saw the movie I loved it because I was 7 and knew no better. I am a giant fan of the books and the only time I ever watched the movie since reading the book, I was angry and frustrated. I want another Eragon movie, a remake that actually follows the books

[@berengustav7714]

@@charlleedodson Author is writing and producing a show!

[@toastdee]

I call them the Peter Johnson movies I hate them so much I saw it on Disney + the other week and I was like: what dis movie doing here?

[@hannahb9563]

i watched it on disney+ too during “quarantine” and i was mad for a full 3 days

[@franziska9260]

@@hannahb9563 it keeps going up on flipping cable and my family keeps it on just to piss me off

[@kenzieloux]

Percys twin brother in an alternate universe. The films were horrible and the fifth book was literally in the first film which ruined any other films if they made more-

[@patax144]

because Disney bought the company that made those movies, but don't worry they are there to tell you they are going to do this right and let people make ven more fun of the movies whan they get the tv show out

[@sarahm8695]

Rick Riordan has confirmed that he will be working with Disney+ to make an _accurate_ Percy Jackson series and I'm so hyped

[@jeremys9752]

This was no doubt my favorit book series in the world and the movies almost made me break my tv immediately and also have made me hesitant to read another series

[@zoealexandra9976]

Me too!! They completely messed up the books and it’s so sad!

[@dontask9000]

ITS OFFICIAL!!!! PERCY JACKSON IS GETTING ITS OWN SHOW ON DISNEY PLUS!!!!! I’m so exited

[@foofy.friend]

Uncle Rick = God of Movies. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 "Plot has been chopped up so thoroughly that I don't think it can be pulled back together." Ouranos and Kronos: aM i A jOkE tO yOu?

[@franziska9260]

I'd rather meet Kronos than see this film, TBH, he'd be so insulted to see himself defeated in one movie (and three movies before he's supposed to be defeated!)

[@marmarino2070]

Even the personalities of the characters changed... 😰 Those movies should be burned. 😤 😠 🤮

[@juliarhapsody]

that's my least favorite change

[@eebertdeebert]

Peter Johnson and the Deathly Antagonist

[@ryanb3665]

He’s definitely referring to the Eragon movie, which was a travesty even WORSE than the PJO movies.

[@penguinbuddy7317]

Ryan B I miss 5 minutes ago when I didn’t know it existed. Now I’m sad.

[@GrayeIra]

What’s worse is I had to be told to read Eragon. When I did, I then understood exactly what the hell that travesty of a film was. Jesus, how did they mess it up that bad

[@genericname8727]

Eragon was a terrible movie but I think the PJO ones were worse. The director bragged about having not read the books. Yeah, the Eragon book made it impossible to make a sequel but it seemed the PJO one did at first too. The Eragon film was still absolutely awful and nothing like the book, but I also feel it wasn’t as far off in terms of tone and target audience. Plus, PJO was written way better so it personally hurt me more to see the soul from the original text cut away to create the film adaptation. I’m a little biased because I kind of grew to dislike the Eragon book series, which I’d once loved, after discovering it was plagiarised from various other books and realising those books were written much better. The author was young and only got published because he had rich parents, and the lack of editing and originality bothered me as I got older and read more widely. I think they’d have benefited a lot from a couple more looks over and modifications from some professional editors. Still, no book deserves an adaptation as bad as the one Eragon received. Definitely not an adaptation as bad as the Lightning Thief movie.

[@alexinitalics188]

20:34 I'm a big fan of the Lemony Snicket books as well and there is such a difference between the film and the series, of which Daniel Handler was involved with the production of. Also, a TV series just seems to be a better medium for book adaptations, in my opinion.

[@emotionalmachine8964]

Lexa The Snake OMG YES. ASOUE was my Harry Potter and Percy Jackson combined!! The movie was TERRIBLE

[@alexinitalics188]

@@emotionalmachine8964 Yess! I actually only started to read the Percy Jackson books last year, ASOUE and ATWQ were what I read growing up (and others of course) I actually saw the movie first, it's not that bad when you've not read the books. And at least the people involved seemed to have read the books and just taken a lot of artistic liberty, which is more than could be said for the Perry Johansson movies who just had one person on the team that emailed a friend who read the first book's synopsis on Wikipedia a few years ago. I still hate how they messed with the ending though. What happened there? Just stick to one book per movie....

[@amberpage7936]

I FULLY AGREE WITH YOU!!!! Tv is a much better way to adapt books because of the pacing! Movies these days are far to fast paced compared to books! Tv allows the story to progress at the correct pace and you don’t have to throw things out or cram stuff in!

[@alexinitalics188]

@@amberpage7936 Exactly! Loads of books are being made into a tv series at the moment and they're all doing so much better than movie adaptations! (Also, love your profile pic, Sorry not sorry 😁)

[@amberpage7936]

Lexa The Snake 😂😂thanks! Yeah, I love asoue’s Netflix series too! And Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials! They’re so great!!! I’d love to see a Percy Jackson one directed by Rick, it’d be amazing!

[@carolinejewson5473]

the literally only funny thing that Percy says is,"Your part donkey!?" twords Grover

[@OptimusPhillip]

And the screenwriters can't even take credit for that one: it was lifted from the book!

[@carolinejewson5473]

@@OptimusPhillip your rite the cant

[@ellaella1992]

what about this is a pen a Pen

[@shay7931]

@Caroline Jewson "What are you doing? Don't walk on my roof"

[@anjan-vh5zp]

Me after one minute ( in movie): Um.. They ate supposed to be 11 not 17 Me after ten minutes ( in movie): Annabeth is a blonde not brunette and Percy and Annabeth both were in team blue. Me after thirty minutes ( in movie): Um.... Where did the three pearl map story come from. Me after thirty minutes and one second ( in movie): Left the theatre silently .

[@franziska9260]

Dude I'm glad you were silent I would've caused a riot

[@jjmichael19]

Also Luke with electronics no monster signals anymore

[@voidsap]

LATE BUT "DEAD ON ARRIVAL" FJJDFSJFJSJS THE LIGHTNING THIEF MUSICAL

[@carelessdreamer]

Wow. This is really upsetting to see, especially since I love writing myself and am currently working on my own story and fantasy world. If I managed to ever have a movie that had such glaring flaws, I’d be pissed too. Especially if they didn’t even consider *twelve pages* of notes on how to rework it and gain the audience. The producers can’t understand that moviegoers today are looking to see the vision of someone else when they go to a movie. How do they view the world? What were their raw ideas like? If you take those away, you are no longer telling a story. You are just giving someone information. Stories have emotion, tone, and draw from real experience. Once you lose the author’s experience and vision, you lose all of those elements, so you lose a great movie.

[@beccangavin]

I read these books with my son and LOVED them....confession time - After my son went to bed I took his Percy Jackson books and read them without him. The strength of the stories wasn't actually the Greek mythology and the battles and the heroics. And it certainly wasn't about the romance even if that did play a part in the longer trajectory of the story. Rick Riordan very skillfully weaved stories about children with challenges using or overcoming their disadvantages to become heroes. And it was a choice, not destiny which always earns extra points in my book. All of the kids in the story come from a variety of broken homes and they have what would normally be considered a learning disability. It's relatable and inspiring. Plus there are monsters and it's funny. The series was perfect and they could have made a great series of movies...but they didn't. The movie was so disappointing. I took my son to watch it because we were both fans and to this day I still stew about that train wreck. They stripped every ounce of redeeming social value from the movie and substituted a cheap tropey teen romance. The pearls were so stupid and unnecessary! And he was 100% right about what they did to Lucas...and actually all of the characters. They made all of the characters less appealing in the movie. I knew Rick Riordan didn't have anything to do with the movie after I saw. It must have been truly horrible for him to have to see his amazing books turned into that live action piece of crap.

[@squidneythesquid2487]

Honestly uncle Rick is my favorite author, even tho his books aren’t my favorite anymore, but he genuinely care so much for his fans and I’ve felt that since I was a lil baby Demigod. One of my favorite memories was reading The Throne of Fire(Kane Chronicles) and read the author bio, and found out he lived in the city I was about to move to. When I moved, I found out that he was gonna be there for the releasing of The Serpent’s Shadow to sign up to four books for free. I waited in a long ass line and got to see my favorite author, and the man who made me feel normal for having adhd, and got four of my books(including two new ones) hand signed. He’s since moved , so it won’t happen again, but I look up to this precious man so much, and he didn’t deserve this

[@siariele4592]

percy jackson REALLY could have been the next harry potter, i'm sad

[@haileyjackson7664]

0:34 you are totally right. My dad tried to play the Lightning Thief movie one night and I locked myself in my room

[@long_suffering2854]

Wolf__ Hailey same I just couldn’t stop mentioning what was wrong with the movie. So I just left and started rereading the first book again. And stayed away from the lounge room for the rest of the movie

[@monkeygirlmajjenehe7253]

When I first watched the movies after I read the first books and I literally cried. I was so upset that Annabeth wasn’t like her book self and percy want like himself either. I think they jut took grovers name and stuck him to a new character. But I honestly would want to see what about ten funds could write a script and see if the could stay true to the book

[@foofy.friend]

A part that really annoyed me was the constant insistence that Percy was the most amazing camper just because he was son of Poseidon. I noticed that in a scene where Luke was directing a sword fighting class. Percy was paired with annabeth (even though Luke took him as his partner because he was new) and he immediately bested her in fighting with a sword that felt heavy and uneven to him, even though she had years of experience NOT TO MENTION she is the daughter of Athena, goddess of many things including BATTLE AND BATTLE STRATEGY.

[@clearaide315]

@@foofy.friend Big agree. It also ruined Annabeth as a stronger female character and they just dumped her down to "lol love interest." She is mandatory to the story with her fighting and strategy skills and they just took that away!!

[@tobistein6639]

@@foofy.friend Especially since in the books, he was basically terrible at everything except canoeing. The only reason he even had a chance against Ares was that Ares was dumb enough to fight him on a beach. Percy used his powers, his wit, and his tactics to win (plus a healthy dose of the Power of Friendship, which I think is just fine in this context because it was earned).

[@daydreamingstars2980]

Harry Potter- *“His eyes were green!”* Hunger games- *“Peeta was funny!”* Twilight- *“Edward was hot!”* Mortal instruments- *“Clary’s hair was red!”* Percy Jackson- **crying in a corner**

[@Blahblahblood]

BRO IF I SEE ANOTHER HP FAN WHINING ABOUT THE DUMBLEDORE SCENE OR HIS EYES I SWEAR- a hp and pjo fan 🙂

[@daydreamingstars2980]

Yazmin The weird queen Same mate smh

[@tinygreencreature5167]

Ageing up the characters also makes monsters less of a threat than in the book. It's supposed to be extremely rare for half-bloods to live past 20 because of how fast monsters sense them and attack. Now you're telling me that the half-blood that uses monster beacons(technology) is living up till 16 while also having big 3 blood in him?

[@rafqatouma7478]

This video might be my favourite thing on the internet 👏

[@juliarhapsody]

that means a lot.

[@FloreMar-yp3iz]

When 10 singers can do better than a huge company lmao

[@dolly8995]

7 actually :)

[@FloreMar-yp3iz]

@@dolly8995 You right lmao. But i also counted the people behind stage (idk why I said singers lol)

[@vivian_westwood_butworse]

10 people with a way smaller budget

[@apollo_predates_soup]

I watched the movie as a child and right when I was learning to read, so grateful to it for introducing me to the books

[@margethordottir]

12:25 there is a reason his main child is also called Persassy.

[@laraghkeane5224]

6:22 It has to be Eragon! It was also produced by Dune Entertainment, based off a book, and gained pretty bad reviews about 4 years previous.

[@lexin8139]

"Hunger Games and Twilight did it" the characters were literally 16/17 in the books, making them that age in the movie changes nothing from the source material

[@legrandliseurtri7495]

16 to 20 vs 12-20

[@mossythegod5602]

"They're talking about adult stuff, and I don't wanna be apart of that." Same

[@tahala1185]

Behold Uncle Rick, the god of writing, the origin of Persassy himself

[@Annie-gm6hr]

2020: Still waiting for another director to take over the 'Percy Jackson' movies and re-film them. -_-

[@esthero5428]

KZbin Fangirl I support that

[@loganjoh1]

I remember seeing this movie opening weekend when i was in 7th grade with my family. when it was finished I was disgusted by the lack of effort in the adaptation. this series meant a lot to me because growing up i had trouble reading and me and my dad started reading the harry potter series to help me learn. then we stared this series and had fun going through this journey with these characters. So watching this movie was so much more painful.

[@aradhyasaxena832]

Same...

[@zareplayssims]

I came from the future to say that THEY ARE MAKING A PJO TV SERIES ON DISNEY PLUS AND IT IS LOOKING AMAZING

[@Artsonist16]

EEEE YESSS

[@seungminbestboi_251]

'hes gonna get hit with a bus with that' wonderfull description

[@athena_theunicorn2291]

this honestly aged super well. knowing the high the fandom is on because of the new series. its great.

[@rinward172]

rick asked if the production can read and i stan that man

[@lnolen101]

It's sad that Rick Riordan knew that the movie was not going to go well with the leads being 17

[@ariannarose3617]

I remember going to the theater with my family for my sister as she really loved the books. I distinctly remember after watching the movie she was extremely mad, and was ranting about how they ruined the story. At the time I had no idea what she was talking about, but now that I am finally reading the books I agree with her. The movies are horrendous

[@queenofcool1478]

* are horrendous

[@ariannarose3617]

@@queenofcool1478 oops lol lemme fix it

[@priscillacofield6620]

Y'know watching this in 2022 while the show is in filming and the beginning is just really funny to watch

[@terrydawson2728]

I know i'm a few years late, but the movie is Eragon also done by Fox. My favorite book series got the same treatment from Fox as Percy. And Disney is also saving that with an upcoming series with the author heavily involved.

[@aj_san3788]

I wonder if the producers look back to these emails and are like "oh shit, we should have listened"

[@andrayabakken9395]

Rick deserved time be heard. I hope if Disney doesn’t make more Percy Jackson movies I want to remake them. If I do remake them I would really like to have all the help I can get and I hope you guys can help me one day. Great video!!! Love your channel!!!

[@andrayabakken9395]

*To be heard*

[@tuuperware]

Personally I feel like a HoO longform TV show could work, because they could adapt it perfectly for various seasons. Yeah, you'd have to change a few things, but Percy and Jason losing their memories would be the perfect start point.

[@naz4488]

gUESS WHAT MY FRIEND

[@naz4488]

A NEW SERIES ARE COMING UP ON DISNEY+

[@notreallynormal490]

One of my favorite things about Percy Jackson is that it shows other sexuality’s, but Rick does it in a easy way that remains calm. All of the characters are so chill about those kinds of things.

[@lorelikesthings]

i hate Percy Jackson movies too! Instead of them being tweens, they're 17, and it completely ruined my vision of the books, so i just pushed the movies out of my mind so they didnt ruin the books for me. im reading trials of apollo so i searched youtube for percy jackson videos that werent crap, and youre the best one i found!!!!! the Percy Jackson movies deserved better. They deserved Harry Potter fame, not those stupid movies

[@seungminbestboi_251]

of Course hes sassy. how should he've been able to write percy otherwise

[@franziska9260]

it's amazing, he's amazing, he's why Magnus and Percy and he'll even Hearthstone who can't even talk are beautifully sassy

[@aaaronszabo]

watching this days after rick announced the Disney+ series :) very excited

[@itsmisfortunate4992]

Oh how far weve come..the series is confirmed and now we PRAY

[@jordanlacicero8005]

Ricks tweets are just my rants about the movies in a controlled manner

[@Noras_Ark]

I should not have been drinking water when I watched this. Uncle Rick made water fly out my nose

[@themoondoesntmind]

When I was in sixth grade I read Percy Jackson in my class and we watched the movie and one of the things we did was to WRITE OUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE BOOK AND MOVIE oh god that was a lot of things

[@kathrinS888]

Your teacher is a god/goddess, but also probably made your hands hurt, + how many pages was it?12?16?

[@kathrinS888]

@ha ze True

[@javaddsales7279]

aaaand we finally have a Disney series adaptation anybody else suddenly have this video on their recommendations? lol

[@starkeeper_youtube]

Haha, yep

[@bluewhelan3816]

Uncle Rick is writing the script for the new Disney+ show so dam right he knows he can do better.

[@luzandreahc]

And now years later, we're getting a live action tv show with age appropriate actors, ande rick fully involved in the whole process

[@jirahjashmiermacalino7556]

luzandreahc yea, I was about to comment this

[@aimeejenesse116]

6:26 The other movie is Avatar The Last Airbender. Judging by the dates and that it's a franchise the same generation that grew up with percy got to grew up with, it DEFINITELY was avatar the last airbender live action the one Riordan was referencing. The flack they got from all the gross changes from cartoon to live action was massive.

[@swimmyswim417]

I’ll admit it: I first got interested in the Percy Jackson series when I stumbled upon the trailer for the first movie. It looked so cool that I burned through the first four books the summer between 6th and 7th grade, and it was awesome. The finale came out right around my 13th birthday and that book was the only thing on my birthday wish list. My best friend and I adore the series. I never quite got into the Riordan’s other series, but she’s really into the sequel series, and my sister’s in love with the Kane Chronicles. Riordan’s a fantastic writer whose books I still go back to frequently even though I’ve long since aged out of the target demographic. His work deserved better than the pitiful tripe it got. I just remember thinking as I watched the first movie, “Did they not read the whole series before jumping in? They totally screwed up any chance of carrying out the series arc, and it’s just the first movie!” It was just as bad as the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie. The scene that gets me most is the lightning battle with Luke on top of the Empire State Building. Like... seriously? Wtf? The SFX aren’t even that good. It’s terrible and cheesy and takes away all drama from the betrayal. Luke’s a Greek tragic figure, taken in by his hubris and hidden layers of pain. He’s not a mustache-twirling cartoon villain. I was optimistic, though. I assumed that because they ruined any chance of carrying on the overarching plot, they couldn’t ruin the other books. AND THEN THEY MADE THE SECOND MOVIE. AND TEASED A THIRD MOVIE AT THE END OF THAT. Oh well. At least they stopped before they could botch Bianca and Nino’s characters.

[@kathrynehiersche1817]

When I start listing the movies problems with people who have only seen them and not read the books, i normally start with Anabeth's hair because that is something they seem to actually understand. When I start about the structure differences, theur eyes glaze over and they don't understand a single point I'm trying to make.

[@aaronalbert5259]

Same thing happened to me.I got introduced to the books by the movies.

[@fennelcomeaux9663]

watching this in 2022!

[@annbreyfogle9212]

7:43 you underestimate the power of 12 year old's

[@queenofcool1478]

*olds

[@thatonepercyjacksonfan4786]

Never underestimate us

[@selfloathinggameing]

I think Rick Riordan is great because he fully acknowledges that he used the Harry Potter formula and that the movie needs to imitate that in order to succeed

[@mylahobbit1815]

gotta say, other than General Malaise, my least favorite thing about the movies is Hades. The entire point of Hades' character in the books is to show that just because someone is the easy person to blame doesn't mean they did it, that the simple answer isn't always correct, and on a more metaphorical level, that death is not the worst thing that can happen to a person, but a natural part of life. Hades isn't exactly nice and fun, but he's not the villain. He's just the guy that always gets blamed. in the movie he's a gigantic jerk. I would use stronger language (much, much stronger language) but this is a place where Kids Might Be. Not only that, but they make him mirror Stinky Gabe as an abusive trashbag who looks like a retired member of a metal band, and not even a good one. They do what every single gods damned greek mythology adaptation does - they conflate him with the Devil and make him the villain when historically? Hades minds his own damn business. I'm a Classics major. That means I'm going to college to study Ancient Greece and Rome. I've read the original texts, I've analyzed Homer, Hesiod, and a million other ancient writers. The only beef anyone ever has with Hades, other than being Generally Kinda Scary, is the kidnapping of Persephone, which has so many different versions with different levels of consent from Persephone. Let's compare that with Zeus, who's in every other myth as a terrible baby daddy with Hera as a cruel and vengeful villain, or Ares, who continually stirs conflict. Heck, let's compare that with Poseidon, another terrible baby daddy (admittedly less terrible than Zeus, but that's like saying the Zodiac killer is less terrible than Hitler - they're both terrible, but one's on a whole other level)

[@nivfecher2534]

1. i couldn't agree more, and hearing someone being as angry as me is strangely extremely therapeutic for me. 2.what you said at the end of the video about being sad with how they treated rick. BIG MOOD. i was nearly brought to tears reading those emails. 3.not really important but ohmygoodness i love your voice SO MUCH.

[@gryfindorplays4104]

This whole time I was in my room screaming GET EM. RICK !!!!!!$$😂😂😂😋😋😆

[@Clairie_P]

This is awesome. Sometimes I hate uncle Rick, but i love this/him rn. Thank you for sharing this w/me. I need to send this to all my friends.

[@Anna-jt6el]

I watched these movies when I was like 5 and even then I hated the movie. Wether it's because my brothers disliked it or not. I hadn't even read the book when I hated the movies. Even my parents who don't know a thing about Percy Jackson thought it was a dam bad movie. Another thing, my cousin, who literally had never read the books hates the movies and now refuses to read the books. Your video literally was hilarious, and you made very good points.

[@ellarose5845]

i remember 2 years ago we were all ignoring the trash movies and *hoping* for an animated series and now WE GETTIN A SHOW ON DISNEY PLUSSSSSS