Percy Jackson movie

[marion11111]

OK, since I brought it up in movies, I'd better follow through over here. :-)

This movie seems to be just the first book.  The director is Chris Columbus. The trailer shows almost nothing, but I got so excited that I clapped when I realized what it was.  Of course, no one else in the theater had a clue and just looked at me like I was insane.  All the kids at my school are reading these, but I guess no one at the theater that day had read them.

The boy playing Percy hasn't been in anything much - I saw Hoot and it was awful - but I always like Sean Bean so there's that.

Here's a link to imdb and they have a link to the trailer.  It's due out next February.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814255/

Alla - I really liked the last book, but I should have gone back and reread the others first,  I kept forgetting who was who and where we left off with them.  It doesn't help that I never learned mythology well in school so I'm also generally forgetting who the characters are in the mythological world.  What did you think of it?  it was darker than I thought it would be in places.

I was just so thrilled with the way this took off with the kids.  It's hard to hook them into a new series and after Harry Potter ended, so many just kept saying they couldn't find anything they liked.  I would push this series and that series and this has really been the only one that has grabbed a lot of kids.  Well, except for Twilight and that's been mostly for girls.  Some boys, yes, but mostly girls. 

I have high hopes for Haddix's new series (the first book is Found) and I thought the Tunnels series would be a winner, but only a handful finished the second one.