thought i'd bring up one more casting update...
Vancouver High Schooler Gets Dream Role In ‘Percy Jackson’ Sequel

Here's a nice story that shows Hollywood is still a Dream Factory. Paloma Kwiatkowski has been cast as Thalia in Fox 2000’s Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters, the Thor Freudenthal-directed sequel.
Full article @ Deadline (via Hypable)as is the case for many of you, i presume, my "ideal" for thalia was kaya scodelario, but i'm actually pretty happy with this choice! she looks JUST like i imagined thalia should look (sans the blue eyes-- but that ear piercing screams thalia to me!), and maybe even a little bit like kaya, too. (i'm gonna have a hard time learning to spell her last name, though).
one thing that gives me pause is that she may look a little bit too young, especially next to alex as annabeth, but if she has the right attitude, i have no problem with that. i wish we knew more about her acting abilities, but if she got chosen in her very first audition ever... well, that says something.
here's another picture of her i saw on tumblr:
( another picture of paloma! )