12 Most Insane Things Happening In Movies & TV Right Now (Nov 23rd)

8. The Percy Jackson Writer Trashed The Movie Before It Even Came Out

There's a long history of authors not liking the films other people have made of their books. Stephen King famously wasn't a fan of lots of them, including The Shining most notably and he's far from the only one. It seems a good rule of thumb to actually involve the writers in the film-making process, just to be safe and to stop them from publicly trashing the movie like King did.

Because they will trash it if it's poor. And sometimes they won't even wait for it to be made and released, as in the case of Percy Jackson author Rick Riordin, who has this week revealed emails he sent 20th Century Fox telling them what they'd done wrong with the film's plans. Actually releasing the emails now is an incredible bit of subtle shade, since the film basically flopped (or at least the franchise did when Fox were looking for their Harry Potter) but it's an interesting insight into the process.

Particularly interesting is how much sense Riordan's emails talk - for instance on the weird decision to age Percy to 17 years old rather than 12 and the comment that the script is so terrible it thrust him into despair. The insane thing here is that the studio appears to have simply ignored him and moved on with their original plans.