10 Dead Movie Franchises That Hollywood Must Revive

Rick Riordan’s ‘Percy Jackson & The Olympians’ series of novels was adapted in 2010 with Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief, and a sequel was released in 2013 adapting the second in the series, Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters.

This franchise launched the careers of Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario, and basically fills the ‘buff Harry Potter’ niche in fandom. Lerman plays the titular Percy, a teenager who finds out he’s the demigod son of the Greek god Poseidon, with all the classical, Clash-Of-The-Titans hi-jinks you’d expect from such a high concept.

The two films were well received critically and commercially. However, as far as anyone knows production never began on an adaptation of the third novel, The Titan’s Curse, and there are two further books in the series: The Battle Of The Labyrinth and The Last Olympian. Why they’re not going ahead with more films hasn’t been made very clear: both films made around the 200 million dollar mark in worldwide box office receipts on a budget of about 90 million dollars, so they’ve at least broken even, and have to have picked up a profit on home video and merchandise licensing.

More to the point, the Fast And Furious franchise has proven that you shouldn’t write off average box office performance of previous instalments if you’ve got a good kickstart in mind.

There’s still time to bring this one back. Trim back the production budget for The Titan’s Curse and ramp up the script and you’ve still got yourself a highly entertaining teen/family franchise.