![]() ![]() I had a plan for what the next few years would look like. “So we had to make kind of a soul-searching decision. There’s a new willingness to work with the content creators that perhaps hasn’t been present before,” he says. “Because of the streaming wars, there is a new sense in Hollywood that they need content badly. And Fox, which owned the rights to the Percy Jackson books, had been sold to Disney. But then Netflix was also interested in adapting The Kane Chronicles, in which siblings Sadie and Carter Kane take on the gods of ancient Egypt. ![]() Riordan was understandably nervous when Disney called. It had been 10 years since The Lightning Thief hit screens (it was a box-office success and spawned a sequel, despite mediocre reviews from fans and critics). (From left) Brandon T Jackson as Grover Underwood, Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson and Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief. ![]()
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