The Last Airbender and Percy Jackson are the two most disappointing movies I saw this year. Fab source material, wretched execution.
The creators of “Avatar The Last Airbender” showed us how to diplomatically side-step the “what’d you think of the movie?!” question a couple of months ago.
Now, Rick Riordan gives us another lesson:
GD: Were you pleased with how the Lightning Thief movie turned out?
RR: I didn’t see it. I really wasn’t involved and because I’m still writing about Percy Jackson’s world and The Heroes of Olympus. I have my own really strong image of what the characters look like and what the settings look like and I knew if I saw the movie I would never be able to get those images out of my head. I didn’t want that to happen. So I didn’t see it, don’t know a thing about it and I’m happy to have it that way.
Zing!
Common thread: creators left out of movies.
