Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief- Movie Scenes

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is a film based on the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. The director Chris Columbus, director of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or the Sorcerer's Stone) and the Chamber of Secrets, directed this film.

Chris Columbus said that he would use the plot, not copy the book page by page as he did in the Harry Potter film's. Chris also said that he wanted to cast a little bit older because they tend to remember their lines better, won't get distracted easily, and will be experienced actors.

The film was released into theaters on February 12, 2010 in America, Brazil, and The United Kingdom. The film was released on February 11, 2010 in Australia, Argentina, Germany, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, and Ukraine and February 24, 2010 in Sweden and Estonia. In Japan it'll be premiered in February 26, 2010.

Production
In June 2004, 20th Century Fox acquired feature film rights to the book. In April 2007, director Chris Columbus was hired to helm the project. Filming began in April 2009 in Vancouver. Portions of the film were shot at the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. Filming wrapped up on the morning of July 25, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Digital intermediate work began in San Francisco in November 2009. Christophe Beck will be composing the score.

Several trailers and sneak peaks have now been released. The first teaser trailer was released during Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince previews.The International trailer was released November 19, 2009. The third trailer was released online and shown in theatres in the release of Fantastic Mr. Fox in wide releases. The teaser trailer was also attached to Avatar (2009 film). The sixth trailer was released during Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and the trailer has been released online. During ABC Family's Harry Potter marathon there were three sneak previews given over the course of three days. The first sneak peak being a featurette that was released online before the marathon even began. The second preview showing Ms. Jackson and her love for her son and you get another look at Hades. The third sneak preview focus's on Percy and Annabeth love interest where it seems that Percy and Annabeth are flirting with each other.

==Plot== The movie opens with Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) meets up with Zeus (Sean Bean) on the top of the Empire State Building. Zeus comments that the storm clouds he's making have no lightning and tells Poseidon that his master bolt has been stolen. Zeus blames Poseidon's son for the theft and gives Poseidon 14 days to give it back or there will be war. Zeus exits to Olympus. Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) is introduced underwater holding his breath for seven minutes before leaving his dysfunctional Yancy Academy vand going to his mother, Sally Jackson (Catherine Keener), who lives with Percy's abusive stepdad, Gabe Ugliano. The next day, during a field trip, a Fury disguised as Percy's substitute English teacher asks to talk to him. She attacks him, questioning him about the bolt. But before she can question him further, Grover Underwood (Brandon T. Jackson) and Percy's Latin teacher, Mr Brunner, arrive and the Fury leaves through a window. Mr Brunner orders Grover to take Percy to Camp Half-Blood.They stop first at his mother's to get a car. On the way there, Sally tells Percy about his father but not that he is a god. The conversation is cut short by the Minotaur. When the car is flipped Grover reveals he is a satyr and uses his hooves to break out, they make the rest of the journey on foot with the Minotaur on their tail. When they reach the Camp Half-Blood gate, Grover and Percy go through but the magical defences keep Sally out to the mercy of the Minotaur. The Minotaur manages to 'kill' Sally by turning her to light so Percy decides to face it with his sword (Riptide), a click pen given to him by Mr Brunner. The sword fails but he manages to kill the Minotaur with one of its horns. He faints afterward from exhaustion. Percy later wakes up in the infirmary. He is taken around Camp with Grover be being hands to Mr Brunner, who reveals that he is actually the centaur, Chiron and the camp's trainer. Chiron takes Percy to his lakeside cabin and he discovers that his father is Poseidon. Percy later participates in Capture the Flag on Luke Castellan's (Jake Abel) team, son of Hermes. He faces Annabeth Chase (Alexandra Daddario), the demigod daughter of Athena for the red flag but he is easily beaten by her. On the ground and wounded, Poseidon advises Percy to go to the lake and the lake water heals his and revitalizes him. He faces Annabeth once more and takes the red flag. During the celebration, Hades appears in the camp fire as a fire demon and reveals that Sally Jackson isn't dead but she is his prisoner. He asks for a trade, he gets the master bolt, which Percy doesn't have, and Percy gets his mother. Chiron tells Percy not to bargain with Hades and to go to Olympus later and convince Zeus of his innocence but later that night Percy plans to sneak out. Grover and Annabeth catch him and plan to accompany him personally, but first they stop at Luke's cabin. Luke tells them that getting into the Underworld is easy but getting out is the hard part. He gives them a map to find Persephone's pearls one of the only exits and after they get one pearl the map leads to another. He also gives Percy a wristwatch shield and flying shoes. First, they travel to Aunty Em's Garden's Emporium to find to first pearl. They split up and Grover finds out that they are in the gorgon Medusa's (Uma Thurman) lair and runs to find Percy. Annabeth later runs into a scared old lady who tells her that her husband was turned to stone but on their way out Medusa, wearing a turban and sunglasses, finds them. They close their eyes as Medusa removes her turban and sunglasses but the old lady couldn't resist the temptation and is turned to stone. Percy manages to get Medusa's attention and as she leaves Grover helps Annabeth. Medusa cornered Percy but he is saved when Grover and Annabeth crash a car into her. She doesn't die but she does when Percy decapitates her. They take the pearl from her bracelet and decided to keep her head because the eyes still work. Next, they go to the remake of the Parthenon and find the pearl on the crown of the statue of Athena. Since the place is public, they hide in the bathroom until after closing time. Annabeth knocks out the guards and Percy uses the flying shoes to get the pearl but, as they are about to leave, the guards transform into the Hydra. Percy drops the pearl and flies up to behead the five-headed Hydra but then ten more grow back. Percy makes a wall of water in front of him and the Hydra to get the pearl. On their way out the Hydra breaths fire at them but Grover turned Medusa's head on it and the Parthenon gets a new statue. They go to the final pearl in the Lotus Hotel and Casino, were they are offered Lotus flowers that wipes their memories. When Poseidon warns Percy about the flowers he snaps out of it. He finds out people have been in the hotel for years and decides to leave. He gets Grover and Annabeth and gets the last pearl from a roulette. Even though the hotel owners and worker try to keep them there, they steal a Maserati and crash out of the hotel. When they see the date they notice they had been in the hotel for five days even though they had been there for only hours. They decide to go to the Underworld in Hollywood. When they find the entrance they bribe the ferry and he takes them to the palace of Hades. They are attacked by hellhounds but Persephone saves them and takes them to Hades. When tell them that he isn't the lightning thief, Hades releases Sally and orders them to be fed to the souls and hellhounds causing Percy to drop his shield. A part of the shield opens it shows the master bolt. Hades takes the bolt but he does keep up his end of the bargain so Persephone knocks him out. They decide to take the bolt to Olympus but they only have the pearls, one for one person, Grover decides to stay with Persephone. When they make it to the Empire State Building, Luke reveals he was the lightning thief and he want to start a war to make a new age of Gods. He steals the bolt from Percy and they have a battle around New York with the flying shoes. In the end, it looks like Luke is the winner but he makes the mistake of saying, "You're no son of Poseidon." Percy makes all the water from the building top water tanks erupt and crush Luke. Luke drops the master bolt and as he tries to take it Percy makes a trident out of water and throws it at Luke, who is hurled into the sea. Percy and Annabeth arrive in Olympus right before the war starts. Percy gives the bolt back and reveals Luke, son of Hermes, stole it and that he took it back. Poseidon gets a chance to talk to Percy and tells him that he's the reason that gods can't meet their children but he still loves Percy. Percy decides to go back to camp and Sally tells him that she kicked out Gabe. Grover returns to camp with his new horns and Percy trains with Annabeth. After the credits roll, it shows the scene were Sally kick Gabe out. Too lazy to carry his own stuff he decides to get a beer from the fridge but finds it padlocked with a warning note from Percy, saying never to open the fridge. But Gabe doesn't take the warning, breaks the lock and open the fridge. Inside the head of Medusa's eyes glow and her snakes look at Gabe. As the screen fades to black, you can hear the sound of stone cracking.

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Video Game
A Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief game has been made and was released on February 9th, 2010.