{"id":1660,"date":"2026-08-07T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:30:11","slug":"13-years-later-percy-jackson-has-recovered-from-its-200m-franchise-killer-to-be-better-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"13 Years Later, Percy Jackson Has Recovered From Its $200M Franchise-Killer To Be Better Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early-to-mid 2000s were a golden age for movie adaptations of young adult fantasy series. When news broke that <em>Harry Potter<\/em> director Chris Columbus was adapting Rick Riordan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/percy-jackson-the-olympians\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Percy Jackson and the Olympians<\/em><\/strong><\/a> book series, it appeared another YA hit was on the way. However, the film franchise never took off and ended after just two movies. Thirteen years later, <em>Percy Jackson<\/em> has found a new life as a Disney+ series.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early-to-mid 2000s were a golden age for movie adaptations of young adult fantasy series. When news broke that Harry Potter director Chris Columbus was adapting Rick Riordan\u2019s Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}