Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) es un estudiante que ve cómo los personajes de su libro de mitología griega cobran vida de la noche a la mañana. Zeus (Sean Bean) está muy enfadado con Percy porque cree que le ha robado su poderoso rayo y el chico se ve inmerso en una peligrosa batalla entre dioses que puede tener consecuencias entre la sociedad del siglo XXI. Actores famosos como Uma Thurman, Rosario Dawson y Pierce Brosnan interpretan a Medusa, Perséfone y Quirón respectivamente en esta película de fantasía dirigida por el experto Chris Columbus.
Guión: Craig Titley
Novela original: Rick Riordan
Producción: Michael Barnathan, Mark Morgan, Guy Oseary, Mark Radcliffe, Karen Rosenfelt
Producción ejecutiva: Thomas M. Hammel
Música: Christophe Beck
Fotografía: Stephen Goldblatt
Montaje: Peter Honess
Casting: Heike Brandstatter, Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkin, Michelle Lewitt, Coreen Mayrs
Diseño de producción: Howard Cummings
Dirección artística: Ross Dempster, Dan Hermansen, James Steuart, Sandi Tanaka, Greg Venturi
Vestuario: Renée April
Maquillaje: Matthew Aebig, Beth Boxall, Linda Boykin-Williams, Emanuela Daus, Victoria Down, Melinda Dunn, Vanessa Giles, Céline Godeau, Tracy Lai, Sherry Linder-Gygli, Sharon Markell, Christopher Mark Pinhey, Justin Stafford, Bill Terezakis, Debra Wiebe, Helen Magelaki
Departamento artístico: Andy Aitken, Don Anderson, Dave Asling, Sandra Baier, Vaughan V. Baker, Brent Bennett, Eli Best, Peter Bodnarus, Timothy Burgard, Melanie Cassidy, Niki Charalambopoulos, John Chaschowy, Susan Connor, Alexandra Cram, Brian Cunningham, Darrin Denlinger, Sharon Dever, Dylan Dowd, Michael Dundas, Giacomo G. Ghiazza, Brent Gloeckler, Max Gloeckler, Leesa Hanna, Haida Harper, Leigh Harrington, Adrian Hrytzak, Julianna Kolakis, Bryan Korenberg, Ray Lai, Cody Larson, Charles Leitrants, Vladimir Lushnikov, Rohan Lyal, Victor James Martinez, Jaydene Maryk, Joe May, Marilyn McKay, Morag McLean, Brychen Olive, Eric Pastore, Vicki Pui, Jim Ramsay, Andrew Reid, Al Rourke, Daniel Scarcello, Rodrigo Segovia, Dean Sherriff, Aaron Sims, Casey Smith, Wyatt Soutzo, James Steuart, John Sund, Adrien Van Viersen, Greg Venturi, Thomas Weigeldt, Lori West, Milena Zdravkovic
Sonido: Scott Aitken, Derek Casari, Colette Dahanne, Sean England, Ian Ferguson, Will Files, Michael Fowler, Rick Kline, Leff Lefferts, Roderick Matte, Millar Montgomery, Beauxregard Neylon, Gary Rizzo, Randy Thom, Rob Young, Kelly Zombor
Efectos especiales: Andy Aitken, Kelly Coe, Chris Hatchwell, Harry Tomsic, Attila Vaski
Efectos visuales: Matan Abel, Matthew Adams, Kevin Aguirre, Shish Aikat, Nicola Atkinson, Andra Bard, Geoffrey E. Baumann, Brian Begun, Joel Behrens, Andrea Biklian, Zakaria Boumediane, Jeremy Bradley, Daniel Brimer, Andy Burmeister, Lindsay Burnett, Jeffrey Burt, Julian Burt, Sebastian Butenberg, Shannon Caldwell, Paul Campion, Alexandre Cancado, Tom Capizzi, Curtis Cardwell, Michael Cashore, Cynthia Rodriguez del Castillo, Adam Chazen, Vanessa Cheung, Jeremy Chinn, Vincent Cirelli, Patrick Clancey, Michael Clive, James Cochrane, Janice Barlow Collier, Daniel Aristoteles Collins, Rafael Colon, Meagan Condito, Matt Conway, Nick Crew, Oliver Dale, Denise Davis, Shad Davis, Stanley A. Dellimore, Raffael Dickreuter, Anthony Di Ninno, Michael Dohne, Jonny Doig, Megan Dolman, Sven Dreesbach, Scott Edelstein, Joël Einhorn, Brett Ellis, Sebastian Elsner, Thilo Ewers, Sean Andrew Faden, Steven Fagerquist, Frank Fieser, Felix Fissel, Antonio Freire, Ignacio Garcerón, Brian Gazdik, Florian Gellinger, Mikael Genachte-Lebail, Ben Gillingham-Sutton, Katie Godwin, Robin Scott Graham, Michael Grawert, John Griffith, Michael Grund, Jason Michael Hall, H Haden Hammond, Jeremy Hampton, Jacob Harris, Jamie Hartnett, Christoph Hasche, Darren Hendler, Thomas Hiebler, Alex Hislop, Oliver Hohn, Glenn Holbrook, Phil Holland, Holly Gregory Horter, Kenneth Ibrahim, Isaac Irvin, Anna Ivanova, Joni Jacobson, Matthew Frederick Johnson, Will Johnson, Bryan Jones, Cindy Jones, Joseph Jones, Alla Kalachnikova, Kerstin Kensy, David Kirchner, Daryl Klein, Karl Kohlman, Arek Komorowski, Jakub Krompolc, Roger Kupelian, James Kuroda, Ken Lam, Kevin LaNeave, Michael Lankes, James Travis Lawrence, Marvin Lee, Jeff Lew, Blaine Lougheed, Kevin Scott Mack, Dawn Brooks, Angela Magrath, Philippe Majdalani, Michael Maloney, Paul Maples, Lisa Marra, Elizabeth Matthews, Dirk Matzkuhn, Björn Mayer, Natalie Meffert, Michael Melchiorre, Rob Meyers, Stephen Misek, Mo Mohamoud, Dele Momoh, Nicole Montemayor, Patrick Paul Mullane, Gautama Murcho, Devan Mussato, Masa Narita, Ben Neall, John Norris, Ezekiel Norton, Christian Paradis, Mitch Paulson, Geoff Pedder, Dawrath Phoue, Robert Pinnow, Elmar Pohl, Eric Ponton, Kelly Port, Michael Ranalletta, Jeff Reeves, Sascha Reinholz, Thomas Reppen, Liz Roberts, Ian Robinson, Kyle Robinson, Guillaume Rocheron, Cesar Rodriguez Bautista, Marc-Andre Samson, David Sanchez, Jared Sanders, Richard Sandoval, Ozen Sayidof, Boris Schmidt, Rayk Schroeder, Mayumi Shimokawa, Jay Shindell, Joey Sila, Keith Sintay, Thanapoom Siripopungul, Sally Slade, Brian Smallwood, Brad Smith, Edmond Smith III, Sean Stortroen, Ileana Stravoskiadi, Julien Stuart-Smith, Richard Sur, Richard Sutherland, Kristen Swanson, Hirofumi Takeda, Hanzhi Tang, Christopher Townsend, Robert Tucker, Leigh van der Byl, Diana Velasquez, Nashia Wachsman, Matthias Wäsch, James Waterson, Jonathan Weber, Cary Welton, Neil West, Kelly Whitfield, Mark Williams, Jeff Wolverton, Joseph Zaki, Lee Alexander, James Going
Animación: Peta Bayley, Dan Blacker, Christian Liliedahl, Dave Mah, Thanh Nguyen, Tim Ranck, Kimberly Sanchez, Daryl Sawchuk, P. Kevin Scott, Emil Simeonov, Danny Gordon Taylor
Casting: Allison Bader, Andrea Brown, Kathleen Chopin, Chrissy Fiorilli, Andy Henry
Vestuario: Arlynn Abseck, Jim Alan Cook, Courtney Daniel, Marco Daxton, Joseph La Corte, J.J. Lewis, Jana MacDonald, Susan Bloedorn, Kelly Anne Ross, Jennifer Schilling
Departamento editorial: Gary Burritt, Thomas J. Cabela, Brett Carroll, Jason Dale, Tyler Ruocco, Shae Salmon, Stacey Thompson, Ed Dobbs
Departamento musical: Christophe Beck, Fernand Bos, Mark Graham, Kevin Kliesch, Jasper Randall, Peter Rotter, Steven L. Smith, Casey Stone
Departamento de transportes: Rupert Cole, Alan Kaminsky, Ryan Moroz, David Tinsley