In the 2010 film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Percy’s surname is Jackson. The film adapts Rick Riordan’s 2005 novel The Lightning Thief and follows Percy as he discovers that he is a demigod.
Percy is the son of the Greek god Poseidon and the mortal Sally Jackson. After arriving at Camp Half-Blood, he becomes involved in a quest connected with Zeus’s stolen master bolt. The movie stars Logan Lerman as Percy, with Brandon T. Jackson as Grover Underwood and Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase.
The film uses figures and objects from Greek mythology, including Medusa, the Underworld, the Minotaur, and the Olympian gods. Its title may lead to comparisons with Pandora’s myth because both stories involve Greek divine conflict and dangerous supernatural objects, but Pandora does not appear as a central character in the film.
The surname is also the family name of Percy’s mother, making it an important identifier in the story’s modern setting.