User blog comment:SayuriDarling/Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase./@comment-76.184.225.112-20100109013549

About the movie:

1) I think in one of Rick Riordan's blog posts he mentions something about when he first narrated the story to his son, his son always imagined Annabeth as brunette. And quite a lot of things changed when he wrote it down as a book. 2) Personally, I think the fact that Grover is black makes a good twist in the movie. 3) The movie does seem to speed things up a bit, but I think thats for the good. If the movie was exactly word for word the book, then it really wouldn't be any different watching it.