Sean Bean Week: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Lightning Thief

Greetings and welcome to Day 4 of Sean Bean Week.  It has been kind of hetic around here so this will be the last day of the week.  Perhaps I can do something on Saturday but I offer no guarantees.  Imagine Gods of myth and legend walking about in our time.  Beings of awesome power that hail from legend and folklore. Now imagine a war breaking out that threatens to shatter not only that pantheon but our world if a wrong is not righted in time.  This is Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Lightning Thief.

So, was Rome a good gig?

Chiron:  Percy, take this to spoil yourself.  It's a powerful weapon. Guard it well. Only use it in times of severe distress.

Percy Jackson: This is a pen.  This is a *pen.*



Eons gone by and two of the elder gods Zeus (Sean Bean of Silent Hill, The Hitcher, Outlaw, Black Death, Game of Thrones, Mirror Mirror and Soldiers of Fortune) and Poseidon (Kevin McKidd of Trainspotting, North Square, Dog Soldiers, Nicolas Nickleby, Kingdom of Heaven, The Purifiers and Rome) have met for the first time in centuries as Zeus points to the heavens how the lightning is missing in his storm.  Poseidon takes immediate offense that his brother would accuse him when Zeus concludes it is Poseidon's son Percy (Logan Lerman of The Patriot, What Women Want, The Butterfly Effect, Jack & Bobby, 3:10 to Yuma and Gamer) that has acquired it and he has 14 days to return it or it means war.

I think the girl farted but I am not sure.

Percy, unaware of his lineage enjoys his almost waking time in water as it is a comfort.  He confides these notions to his friend Grover (Brandon T. Jackson of This Christmas, Big Stan, Days of Wrath, Fast & Furious, Tooth Fairy and Operation: Endgame) who reveals to be a satyr and Percy's mother Sally (Catherine Keener of Walking and Talking, Boys, If These Walls Could Talk,  Out of Sight, Death to Smoochy and An American Crime) must take the boy to safety in Camp Half-Blood (a haven for demi-gods) but his mother is claimed by Hades as leverage on the young half god.  The boy finds a realm composed of the children of the gods that train and toil to become warriors, soldiers and even heroes.

The camp's instructor Chiron (Pierce Bronsan of Remington Steele, Noble House, The Heist, Detonator, GoldenEye, Dante's Peak, The World Is Not Enough, The Matador and Mamma Mia!), trainer of Hercules and Perseus who vows to train the boy as he is of the rarest of pantheon, born of one of the three major gods of Olympus.   He must go before Zeus, convince him of his innocence and embark of the quest to retrieve the lightning bolt, save his mother and the world from impending war.  With monsters Medusa, Hydra and even a Minotaur in the way of this quest Grover and Percy are joined by Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario of The Hottest State, The Attic, Damages, Bereavement, White Collar, Hall Pass and Texas Chainsaw 3D), daughter of Athena who aids them in the hopes to save the world and meet her mother.

A few bits of trivia now.  In the book of same title Rick Riodan made the kids all of 12 rather than 17 as they are in the film.  Anthony Head auditioned for Chiron and lost to Pierce Brosnan but later helmed the character in Percy Jackson: Seas of Monsters.

James Bond went Furry!