Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: Book vs. Movie
Chris Columbus’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) adapts Rick Riordan’s 2005 novel. Percy discovers his connection to the Greek gods and sets out to rescue his mother.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Rick Riordan
- Year
- 2005
- Pages
- 416Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 10 hr 2 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Jesse Bernstein
- Series
- Percy Jackson & the Olympians, book 1
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson has spent years getting into trouble at school before discovering that the Greek gods are real and one of them is his father. At a camp for their children, he learns that Zeus’s stolen lightning bolt could start a divine war. Recovering it means crossing America with two new friends while trying to understand what has happened to his mother.
- Director
- Chris Columbus
- Writer
- Joe Stillman, Craig Titley
- Year
- 2010
- Runtime
- 2 hrWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean
- Genre
- action, Adventure, Fantasy, teen
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Percy Jackson learns that he is Poseidon’s son when creatures from Greek mythology begin attacking him and his mother disappears. Accused of stealing Zeus’s lightning bolt, he leaves a camp for demigods with Annabeth and Grover on a journey to reach the underworld. Finding a way to rescue his mother also means confronting a dispute among gods who are preparing for war.
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