User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Official "The Sea of Monsters (movie)" Discussion/@comment-2079715-20130321125543

I dunno what happened with Chris Columbus in TLT, he worked on Harry Potter 1 and 2 and did hell of a job. His 2 movies in that franchise are the only ones I watch.

As for Percy... My guess is that he didn't get the contract for the whole Percy Jackson series, so he decided to change the movie as he wishes, since there wont be a sequel. But, even the crappy version of TLT movie drew attention of audience, so FOX decided to prolong the contract and make series. But Columbus got a backlash with his 1st movie ( which, if my theory is true, wasn't fair to him), so he only got the role of producer for this one. Fingers crossed that he knows what hes doing.