'I basically wrote off Hollywood': Rick Riordan didn't want Percy Jackson on screen again after film issues
Rick Riordan "wrote off Hollywood" after being left frustrated by the 'Percy Jackson' films. The 59-year-old author has never watched either of the movie adaptations of his work – 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief' and 'Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters' – and refused to consider other takes on the books as the flicks had deviated from the source material so much. In an interview with Variety, Rick said: "After the movie experience, I basically wrote off Hollywood for a long, long time. I really didn't want to have anything to do with the film industry. "There were many years ...