‘Percy Jackson’ and other films based on books failed at the cinema

There are great cinematic sagas such as ‘The Hunger Games’ or ‘Harry Potter’ which have earned the public’s affection over the years and whose origin dates back to literary novels, but there are also others movies based on books like the two installments of ‘Percy Jackson’ which turned out to be huge flops on the big screen.

The perfect example of movies based on books that let audiences down, is the first chapter of ‘Percy Jackson’ presented by FOX in 2010, which was supposed to be the next “Harry Potter” and instead the adaptation ended up disappointing the fans of the novel and its story did not continue. But like this there are other sagas that have suffered the same way.

Percy Jackson

Among the most successful children’s books in the world, the adventures of Percy Jackson have won the love of thousands of people, unfortunately when FOX tried to adapt his stories into a film saga, they failed in two installments that disappointed fans of novels by Rick Riordanbut luckily Disney+ is already working on a series that promises to be more faithful to the son of Poseidon.

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‘Shadow Hunters’

Writer Cassandra Clare made The World of the Nephilem a worldwide mega-hit with several books, however the Shadow Hunters They didn’t have the same luck in their first film starring Lily Collins, although some time later Netflix managed to adapt the first saga of these books into a successful juvenile series full of fantasy and science fiction.

‘Divergent’

Although the trilogy written by Veronica Roth has been adapted to the cinema as was the case with ‘The Hunger Games’, the last film was divided into two parts and its failure was so great that the end of the film was never presented . protagonist of the story Shailene Woodley and Theo James, although you can currently watch these tapes on different streaming platforms such as HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video or Paramount+.

‘The Chronicles of Narnia’

Although this three-film franchise based on the books by CS Lewis initially failed to have the necessary success to finish adapting all of its stories, which are set in a world full of magic and fantasy where time unfolds very different from real life and the protagonists can have all kinds of adventures.

“I’m number 4”

To end this list of movies based on books, you can find this thrilling action story on YouTube where the life of an alien named John, played by Alex Pettyfer, is presented, who must do everything possible to infiltrate the human race to avoid being killed like 3 of his comrades, and along the way he gets help from someone just like him.