Disney's Percy Jackson Show Must Fix The Movie's Big Villain Problem
Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians adaptation has the opportunity to rectify the 2010 movie’s inaccurate portrayal of the series' big villain. The movie, starring Logan Lerman as the titular Percy, was widely criticized for being unfaithful to Rick Riordan’s source material and aging up the main characters from 12 to 16. Amid a plethora of cinematic sins, one of the movie’s more specific failings is often overlooked, however.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, the novel which the movie butchered and that the first season of the Disney show will follow, tracked the journey of two demigods and a satyr, Percy, Annabeth, and Grover, from Camp Half-Blood to the Underworld as they searched for Zeus’ stolen lightning bolt. The trio encountered various mythological monsters along the way, including the Minotaur and Medusa. Disney has avoided some of the movie's mistakes already: Riordan is on board as a producer and the cast is age-appropriate. However, it remains to be seen how Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians will tackle one of the story’s villains.
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The Percy Jackson movie’s portrayal of Hades was a vastly simplified version of his book counterpart; Disney cannot repeat this error. Not only did the movie’s incarnation of the character misinterpret the message of Riordan’s books, it would have also created long-term problems for the franchise had the movie been a success. Hades was reduced to a one-dimensional villain, but in the Percy Jackson novels, he was more of a misunderstood antagonist. If it wants to fix the Percy Jackson movies' problems, Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians depends on how it navigates the movie’s mistreatment of
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