Greek Gods "Romp" in Modern America

[Narukami]

The Greek Gods live! ... in the present day USA. Or at least so says Hollywood.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Rosario Dawson and Steve Coogan will run the underworld in the Greek mythology-infused adventure film "Percy Jackson."
Chris Columbus is directing the adaptation of Rick Riordan's best-selling fantasy-adventure book series, which involves the world-saving quest of Poseidon's half-human son, Percy, in modern America.
Catherine Keener, Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, Melina Kanakaredes, Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario and Brandon T. Jackson already have been cast.
Coogan will play the nefarious Hades, and Dawson will play his imprisoned wife, Persephone, who has a flirtation with Jackson's character, Grover, Percy's best friend. Only the role of Ares, God of War, is yet to be cast.
The Fox 2000 film, which Columbus and Craig Titley adapted from the first book in the series, "The Lightning Thief," is scheduled for a February 12 release.
Dawson most recently starred in "Seven Pounds" and "Eagle Eye."
Coogan most recently appeared in "Tropic Thunder" and "Hamlet 2." He returns as Octavius in the comedy-adventure "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," which hits theaters May 22.

Has an excellent cast... perhaps it will be good.

:wink:

Narukami

[M. Demetrius]

Those are very fun books, and should lend themselves well to movies. Lots of action, and decent storylines...of course that's before Hollywood gets ahold of them, but at least it's reasonable to think they can do a good job. Should make a lot of money. I hope they take the Peter Jackson approach, and film more than one at a time. That seems to work well, but may not be needful for this series, as for the most part, the settings move all around, except for Camp Halfblood. We can hope for a good script.