TEEN DEMIGODS' LATEST PERILS
UNLEASHED
IN "PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF
MONSTERS"
The much adored teen demigod Logan Lerman
aka Percy is back in "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters" to face his
most perilous adventure based on Rick Riordan's best-selling second book of the
same title. Following the successful wave of the first movie "Percy
Jackson: The Lightning Thief," the latest adaptation, 'Sea of
Monsters" brings Percy along with his friends in uncharted waters to
battle terrifying creatures and the ultimate Evil to retrieve the Golden Fleece
and bring it back in time to save their world.
Directed by Thor Freudenthal, Lerman
reprises his role as the titular hero, the demigod son of Poseidon, who embarks
on his own, modern-day Odyssey. “At the beginning of this film, Percy is
not living up to his potential and he doubts himself,” says Lerman. “Percy feels abandoned by his father, the Greek god Poseidon, and then, he
finds out that he has a brother.”
If shocking family revelations weren’t enough, Percy must deal
with Polyphemus, an enormous and powerful Cyclops; Charybdis, the sea monster;
the raging Colchis Bull, a giant, metallic and fire-breathing creature that
attacks Camp Half-Blood; the Manticore, a formidable monster with a lion’s body
and a long, scorpion-like tail; and the ancient Oracle, an ancient mummified
mystic with empty eye sockets and skeletal features. The Oracle further
complicates Percy’s sense of self and duty, says Lerman, when it tells him he
“is either going to destroy Olympus or save it. He’s not sure if he can
rise to the occasion.”
Lerman remembers three months of fight
training on the first Percy Jackson film, so was grateful all of that knowledge
was inherent to begin with, and the time didn’t need repeating for "Sea of
Monsters." “It was insane,” he says. “It was our first time doing anything
like this so we really had to figure it out. I’d never held a sword before. But
now we kind of know what we’re doing and it was much, much easier to jump back
into it.”
Lerman says that after two movies playing
Percy he knows his way around a sword. So is he a dangerous man to be around?
"I think so," he laughs. "But then, I think anyone would
probably be. I think it's pretty easy. You just chop."
Percy has a lot at stake, according to Freudenthal.
“He’s trying to save Camp Half-Blood and prove himself as a hero. He’s
grown distant from his father, who is not really responding to his requests for
help. Percy embarks upon his ‘odyssey’ for two reasons: to save his home,
and to ascertain if he is indeed a hero.”
The demigods return when "Percy
Jackson: Sea of Monsters" opens August 7 in theaters nationwide from 20th
Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
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