Percy Jackson and the Olympians Fansite

Craig Titley, the screenwriter for The Lightning Thief talked about what it was like writing the script, and gives advice to aspiring screenwriters. One thing he said that I liked, was that scripts are usually really good, but by the time they go through the process of being made into a film, it can come out horribly.

He talked about how he thinks to himself, “Why does this movie need to be made?” And he said that it was about “Finding the Hidden Power within yourself” And how ‘Percy Jackson’ is dyslexic, and Chiron his mentor is in a wheelchair and how those aren’t disabilities, but they were “Gifts.” He also said to aspiring screenwriters, “You need to love writing. You’re going to be reading and writing screenplays. You can’t just say you want to be a screenwriter. Saying that is like someone saying ‘I want to be a Brain Surgeon, but I don’t like blood’. You just don’t do that.”