After questioning whether or not the first one was good enough for a sequel, we've learned today that Fox is committed to making the second Percy Jackson book into a movie.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters has gone into production with a hopeful release date in 2012, which is surprisingly soon. Logan Lerman will be returning as Percy Jackson (since he lost to Andrew Garfield for Spider-Man) and Harry Potter 1 & 2 director Chris Columbus will be stepping down to allow Diary of a Wimpy Kid director Thor Freudenthal to give it a shot. Columbus will stay on as a producer.
It wasn't a sure thing for this movie to be made. The first one was released to mixed reviews and just okay numbers. Eventually, it did make $226 million internationally with only a $95 million production budget. Those seem like good numbers until you look at the US domestic gross which is only $88 million. Typically it depends on how well you do in the US before you decide on whether to make a sequel or not.
Another factor that make a sequel questionable was that they altered the first movie from the original book to a point where important things were left out and will make a second movie hard to understand without clarification.
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