Five Lessons Disney+’s Percy Jackson Can Learn From the Harry Potter Movies
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is at last getting the true to life reboot that fans have clamored for. Rick Riordan’s best-selling novels were first rejuvenated in the mid 2010s with Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Criminal and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, however the movies return and basic gathering of both stopped the franchise before it could really make headway. Blend in numerous liberties taken from the source material and various rushed storylines, and fans were left less than satisfied with what advanced toward theaters.
Be that as it may, the past is in the past, and what’s in store is currently.
Creation is almost mostly complete on Percy Jackson Season 1, which will adjust the events of The Lightning Hoodlum throughout eight episodes. Past that, Riordan has also affirmed that the speculative arrangement is to adjust one book for each season of the series.
While everything is working out as expected as of now, the amazing vision for Percy Jackson requires tolerance and persistence. Numerous franchises have started off with promising histories just to fumble come the sequels.
Fortunately for Percy Jackson, there’s another surprisingly realistic transformation of a youthful grown-up book series that laid the diagram on the most proficient method to rejuvenate adolescent books. Right away, here’s five lessons that Disney+’s Percy Jackson can learn from the Harry Potter movies.
Long haul Storytelling
In professional wrestling, there’s an idea called “long haul booking.” The procedure is genuinely simple on paper: sow seeds for a competition, water them once consistently or two, let them sprout years after the fact. Film franchises have the same capacity.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone established a lot of seeds that barely blossomed until the last moments of The Haunting Hallows Section 2. Aspects like Harry’s scar being a Horcrux and Snape’s counter-spells during the Quidditch match didn’t seem OK until the filmmakers were prepared to uncover their actual meanings.
The Lightning Hoodlum is loaded with teases of a 10,000 foot view story, yet it is in the show’s best interest to keep them under control until they are prepared to blossom. The Fates snipping the yarn might look bad to viewers of Season 1, yet the result of that clarification come Season 5 will merit the pause.
Resurrecting The Huge Terrible
One of the Percy Jackson films’ biggest flaws was carrying Kronos into the overlay too soon. On the other side, Harry Potter executed its large awful’s appearance just ok.
Voldemort’s existence was teased all through The Sorcerer’s Stone, his backstory uncovered in The Office of Secrets, takes a backseat in The Prisoner of Azkaban, and makes his hotly anticipated resurrection in the last moments of The Flagon of Fire. This man was so feared for three and a half movies that individuals even shied away from saying his name without holding back.
Most urgent is that Voldemort never genuinely lost until the last film. Sure, his resurrection was stalled thanks to bombed efforts by Professor Quirrell and a controlled Ginny Weasley, however when he took full form, his adversaries only escaped him. This makes Voldemort a conceivable danger to Hogwarts rather than a crushed miscreant endlessly time once more. The success loss record means something.
Treating Kronos in a similar fashion would go far. Decrease him to hauntingly subtle mentions in Season 1. Keep him torpid all through Season 2. Permit him to assume a lower priority in Season 3, just to give him his full resurrection in the last episodes of Season 4, setting the stage for a profoundly expected Season 5 clash. This also means that when Percy and company win the day in the first couple of seasons, they are not completely crushing Kronos yet just postponing the huge fight.
Unique Scenes
Surprisingly realistic adaptations never should be a finished beat-by-beat retelling of the source material. The higher perspective should stay consistent and the characters should be consistent with the page, however film and television should be seen as opportunities to make these stories far superior.
While not all unique scenes will be grand slams, Harry Potter exemplified the amount of an asset they can be on numerous occasions. Harry’s famous, “How dare you stand where he stood!” to Headmaster Snape was a unique creation for The Spooky Hallows Section 2 and remains one of the franchise’s most respected moments.
As affirmed by leader maker Becky Riordan, Percy Jackson Season 1 will incorporate somewhere around one “non-book scene” that will “further develop story rationale.” Scenes like this will keep the fanatic book fans honest and furthermore gives the show the valuable chance to cut out its own inheritance.
There will definitely be chapters from the books that are cut from the show, yet Percy Jackson has the advantage of playing with eight episodes of television. In contrast to a two hour film, most of these unique scenes will probably come as enhancements rather than replacements.
Blend of Obscure and Established Actors
Most actors accompany a specific degree of capacity in their possession. At the point when audiences see Tom Cruise or Robert Downey Jr. in a job, they quickly understand that the person they are depicting on screen has a degree of force.
This casting procedure has been applied in numerous movies before, and especially in the Harry Potter franchise. They’re household names now, yet sometime in the distant past Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson were obscure to the mainstream. Running against the norm, co-stars like Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith were multi-time Emmy and Institute Grant winners.
Having the likes of Rickman and Smith step into the professor roles permitted the crowd to get involved with their power from the get go. Acquiring more designed actors like Jason Isaacs and Gary Oldman to play remarkable parental figures later in the franchise just emphasized the progressive system of force.
Percy Jackson as of now has a portion of the fight accomplished with its casting. Driving man Walker Scobell has somewhat more credits to his name than Radcliffe did when he was cast as The Kid Who Lived, yet remains in that general obscure class alongside co-stars Leah Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri. On the other side, Percy Jackson should now shift focus over to recognizable faces to satisfy the seats on Olympus. Getting established names to depict the gods, who all have significantly restricted screen time in the books, would give them the same measure of unmistakable presence that the Harry Potter professors and parents had.
One Season Each Year
It sounds simple in hindsight, yet Harry Potter was genuinely unique with its release rollout. The eight-film franchise first appeared in theaters in 2001 and dropped its last installment in 2011. With the exception of 2003, 2006, and 2008, there was a new Harry Potter film ever year for a straight 10 years.
Considering Percy Jackson Season 1 is shooting throughout the span of eight months and may not show up until 2024, getting a new season on the streamer consistently will be extreme. This also means a potential Season 2 wouldn’t go into creation until 2024 at the earliest, unless Disney is so impressed by what they see from crude film that they green light a sophomore installment a long time before fans see the pilot episode.
All things considered, if and when Percy Jackson gets the thumbs up to do an entire five seasons, the series should spread out a creation guide similar to Harry Potter. This wouldn’t just be to support the fans, however to help having the center kids that make up the series stay consistent with their characters’ ages.
The whole Percy Jackson series is worked around the lead protagonist’s sixteenth birthday celebration prediction. Scobell is 13 years old presently, meaning he’s on target to mature alongside the son of Poseidon. To ensure the series doesn’t have an entertainer age bounce as drastic as Stranger Things 4, Disney should mean to keep Percy Jackson to around one season each year.