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

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is the film adaptation of The Lightning Thief (Book). The film was released into theaters on February 12, 2010 in USA, Canada, 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 premiered on 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.

Opening
The movie opens with Poseidon meeting up with Zeus at the top of the Empire State Building. Zeus tells Poseidon that his master bolt has been stolen. Zeus blames Poseidon's son for the theft despite Poseidon's insistence that he is innocent, and gives him until the Summer solstice to give it back or there will be war. Zeus goes to Olympus.

The Fury
Percy Jackson is introduced underwater holding his breath for seven minutes before leaving his dysfunctional Yancy Academy and going to his mother, Sally Jackson, who lives with Percy's abusive stepfather, 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. Grover Underwood and Percy's Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, arrive and the Fury leaves through a window. Mr. Brunner orders Grover to take Percy to "the camp," because "there's no safe place on Heaven or Earth for him now." They stop first at his mother's to get a car.

The Minotaur
On the way there, Sally tells Percy that he is special, but not which greek god his father is. The conversation is cut short by the Minotaur. When the car is flipped over, 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 defenses keep Sally out to the mercy of the Minotaur. The Minotaur turns her to golden light, and Percy believes she is killed. The sword given to Percy by Mr.Brunner fails but Percy manages to kill the Minotaur with one of its horns. He faints afterward from exhaustion.

Capture the flag
Percy later wakes up in the infirmary. He is taken around Camp with Grover, and meets Annabeth Chase, a demigod daughter of Athena, and Luke Castellan, a son of Hermes and the Hermes Cabin leader, and finds out that Mr. Brunner 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. Later, all demigods at Camp Half-Blood are gathered around so that Chiron can introduce Percy to everyone, and for someone to pick him as part of their team. Luke takes Percy as a member of The Hermes Cabin. Percy later participates in Capture the Flag on Luke Castellan's team, The Hermes Cabin. He fights Annabeth for the red flag but she easily beats him. On the ground and wounded, Poseidon advises Percy to "go to the water" in which the water heals and revitalises him, and takes the red flag, winning.

Planning the quest
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 a trip to Erebus is usually one-way. He gives them a map to find Persephone's pearls. After they get one pearl the map shows them where to find the next. He also gives Percy a expandable shield and Winged shoes he stole from his dad's house.

Medusa
First, they travel to Aunty Em's Garden Emporium to find to first pearl. They split up and Grover realizes that they're in the Medusa's lair and runs to find his friends. Annabeth runs into a scared woman 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 woman 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 statues, distracting her. While distracted, Percy decapitates her. They take the pearl from her bracelet and decided to keep her head because the eyes still work.

The Hydra
Next, they go to the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee 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 five janitors and Percy uses the flying shoes to get the pearl but, as they are about to leave, the janitors transform into the Hydra. Percy drops the pearl and flies up to behead the five-headed Hydra but then ten 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.

The Lotus Hotel and Casino
They go to the final pearl in the Lotus Hotel and Casino, where they are offered Lotus Flowers that brainwashes visitors of the casino. When Poseidon warns Percy about the flowers, he snaps out of it. He finds out someone who believes the year is 1971 and decides to leave. He gets Grover and Annabeth and gets the last pearl from a roulette. Even though the hotel owners and workers 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 thought that they had been there for only hours. They go to the Underworld in Hollywood.

The Underworld
When they find the entrance they bribe Charon and he takes them to the palace of Hades. They are attacked by Hellhounds but Persephone saves them and takes them to Hades. When Percy tells 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, revealing the master bolt. Hades takes the bolt but he does not keep up his end of the bargain believing Percy had lied earlier, so Persephone knocks him out. They decide to take the bolt to Olympus but they only have three pearls, one for each person, so Grover decides to stay with Persephone, as he's Percy's protector.

Betrayal
When they make it to the Empire State Building, Luke reveals he was the lightning thief and he wanted 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, " Maybe they're wrong. Maybe 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.

Returning the Bolt
Percy and Annabeth arrive on Olympus right before the war starts. Percy gives the bolt back and reveals Luke, son of Hermes, stole it. Poseidon gets a chance to talk to Percy and tells him why he left: he was spending so much time with Sally that he was willing to become mortal, and Zeus created the law that forbid gods from seeing their children to prevent this from happening again. Although he doesn't completely forgive Poseidon, Percy now knows and is happy that Poseidon does love him.

Ending
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 is last seen training with Annabeth.

After the credits roll, it shows the scene where Sally kicks 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 "Don't open the fridge. Ever. Under any circumstances." But Gabe ignores the warning, breaks the lock and opens the fridge. Inside is Medusa's head. Her eyes are unprotected, so Gabe gets turned to stone.

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