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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