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The Lighting Thief, 2010
Director: Chris Columbus
Notable Cast: Logan Lerman, Alexandria Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson
Chris Columbus’s 2010 film was the first attempt to adapt The Lighting Thief. It received mixed reviews from both critics and fans for straying too far from the source material; the three main characters, for instance, were aged up significantly. However, the film did receive some praise for its special effects and action sequences, as well as Lerman’s performance. Famously, Riordan was frustrated with changes that had been made to the original story. In 2018, he published two emails on his blog that he had originally sent to the studio after he read the script. In the emails, he urged them to stick to the source material because he was worried fans would be disappointed. The same team made a film adaptation of the next book in the series, The Sea of Monsters, but the project was canceled soon after and further movies were scrapped.
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, 2014
Book: Joe Tracz, Music: Rob Rokicki
Notable Cast (original Off-Broadway): Eric Meyers, Kristin Stokes, Jordan Stanley
The musical initially premiered off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. It was later reworked with an expanded script and a new score, and was revived in the spring of 2017. So far, the musical has had two national tours (in 2015 and 2019) and a sixteen-week limited run on Broadway in 2019, and is currently running in London’s Off West End through February 2025. The musical has received high praise from fans of the novels.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, 2023—
Director: James Bobin
Notable Cast: Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians television series was created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg. First developed in the spring of 2020 after Riordan successfully pitched it to Disney, the show premiered on December 19, 2023 on Disney+. It has received positive reviews from critics and fans for its faithfulness to the source material and the cast performances, particularly Scobell’s as Percy. The series was renewed for a second season in February 2024, which will adapt the second book in the series (The Sea of Monsters). Season two is currently filming and is set to be released late 2025.
