The final book wasn’t released until 2011.Ĭonsidering Paolini’s long writing process and the poor reception the movie received, an Eragon movie sequel never really stood a chance. And by then, Paolini had announced that the trilogy would actually be a quartet, which one could assume would complicate Fangmeier’s approach. It took more than a year following that interview for the third novel, Brisingr, to finally reach the hands of readers. I think one would be best off to write the third film first, and then, being happy with that, going back to the second one and doing all the set-up work that will pay off in the third.” I think until you kind of have an understanding of what the third piece of that puzzle is, it’s kind of hard to look at that second book, of course I read it, it’s very much a transitional story element. “I think it’s very important to see where this ends up how it’s resolved. “I asked Christopher … about that and he was not volunteering much of what was going to happen,” Fangmeier said in an interview with MovieWeb in 2007. Fangmeier felt moving forward with the franchise would be difficult without knowing how the books were supposed to end, and Paolini was reportedly not very helpful in filling in those gaps for the production. In fact, the Inheritance Cycle wasn’t called the Inheritance Cycle back then, but the Inheritance Trilogy. When the ‘Eragon’ movie landed in theaters, only the first two Inheritance Cycle books had been released. The filmmaker behind ‘Eragon,’ Stefan Fangmeier, was apparently hesitant to commit to producing later films in the franchise because the books hadn’t been completed at the time. Unfortunately, the ‘Eldest’ movie didn’t just have poor reviews going against it. The time for the studio to develop Eldest, the second book in the Inheritance Cycle, would have been in the immediate years after the first movie’s release. But the problem was that this movie came out a year after ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ hit the big screen, and the movie poster was just too similar.Īt this point, an Eragon movie sequel is incredibly unlikely. Is it a gorgeous work of art like the Interstellar poster - or even the Hunger Games posters?Īnd it doesn’t necessarily have to be. Look, there’s nothing inherently terrible about the poster. Let’s start with the lesser of the cinema sins - the movie poster. But with those high expectations came high disappointment. It goes without saying that movie execs and fans both expected the film to kick off a mega-franchise. The Eragon movie cast had at least one big name: Jeremy Irons was attached to play Obi-Brom Kenobi. The first book was the third best-selling children’s book of 2003, right behind J.K. But, hey, the books were fun, and they left young readers wishing they had dragons themselves.Īnd not only that but these books were mega hits. Paolini’s books got a lot of flack back in the day for being Lord of the Rings/Star Wars rip-offs – and there’s probably a lot of merit there. The second book in his adult science fiction Fractylverse series, Fractal Noise, comes out on May 16 and both an illustrated edition of Eragon as well as a brand new sequel story called Murtaghrelease on November 7.‘Eragon’ by Christopher Paolini (Alfred A. On the bright side, there will be plenty of new books from Paolini this year to tide fans over. We’ll be keeping a close eye on the show for updates. Some fans have already been waiting upwards of 20 years to see Paolini’s series get a faithful screen adaptation (we’re not counting the terrible 2006 movie). Considering that the first castings for Salke’s Percy Jackson series was announced in early 2022, and that series isn’t slated to release until late 2023 or early 2024, it seems reasonable to expect that we won’t be watching Eragon until late 2024 or even sometime in 2025. Salke is also one of the people behind Disney+’s upcoming Percy Jackson and the OlympiansTV show based on the books of Rick Riordan, so he seems to be carrying the young adult fantasy flag high for the streamer.Įragon is early enough in production that no casting has yet been announced for the series. It’s been around eight months since the news broke that the series was being developed at Disney+, with Paolini as a co-writer and Bert Salke as a producer. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) When does the Eragon TV show come out on Disney+?Īs of this writing, there’s still no solid release date for the Eragon TV series. NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 08: Christopher Paolini promotes “Inheritance” at the Barnes & Noble Union Square on Novemin New York City.
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