Source: Cinemablend
Based on the young adult series of novels by Rick Riordan, the first movie was a disappointment in all fields, bringing in only $88 million domestically on a $95 million budget and suffering under comparisons to the Harry Potter movies. Just like the second book in the series, the sequel would be titled Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters, and Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have been hired to write the script. According to an unnamed source, Logan Lerman, who starred as the titular Jackson, will be returning, but director Chris Columbus and producer Karen Rosenfelt will not. Should things work according to plan the sequel could shoot as early as this summer.
I couldn’t bring myself to watching the first movie as it during a strong wave of popular books being fast tracked into movies to capitalize on the Harry Potter/ Twilight craze and this movie just got lost in the crowd with me. I may track this down to see if it deserves a sequel but can anyone tell me if I should and if they’re interested in seeing Logan Lerman return to the PJ role?
