Eragon TV series in development at Disney + - The mouse continues to scrape the bottom of the IP barrel

[TheGreatDodongus]

What a bizarre move. Sure, the books sold well back when they released, but the lasting impression of the series on the cultural zeitgeist is zilch. Nobody talks about it, nobody thinks about it, and the impression the average potential viewer has of the series is probably something along the lines of:

'Oh yeah, the books with the cool dragon covers, I remember those from my school library. I think I read the first one, the one with the blue dragon? The movie sucked though.'

They have to know this isn't going to make money, right?

 

[Johan Schmidt]

I read all the books when I was a child. Eragon is a stone cold psychopath in those books. It's like Eragon has been raised properly, but there's this odd disconnect for him, where without other people to guide his morals he starts to become unhinged.

He damns a man to eternally walk the earth for pissing him off. He threatens to put a piece of molten dust into the digestive tract of a man, so that it slowly burns its way through his body. He kills child soldiers in the third book, rips out the teeth of one of them and plays with it like he's a kid messing with a lego brick. He has a prisoner begging for his life, Eragon uses his bare hands and superhuman strength to crush the life out of him, and just shrugs it off with 'He would have been a threat.'

I know they won't, but I really want them to do an American Pyscho style rendition of Eragon, would be funny as fuck. This fish eyed, clearly insane man with a 30 tonne dragon being handed more and more power.

 

[SpotOnTheWall]

I seem to be one of the very few people who liked the series when I was young.
But here comes Disney to corrupt my childhood memories again

 

[AnotherOne]

So how long does hollywood have to dig though the IP dustbin before I get a Bartimaeus trilogy adaptation? 11yo me loved those books.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

https://twitter.com/gamedesigndan/status/1551833167677591552

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Wasn't this the book that only got popular because the author's parents worked in the publishing industry? I can't imagine that many people wanting to see an adaptation of it, but maybe the shitshow will be entertaining in a bad movie way. Oh wait not even shitty movies/tv shows are fun anymore.

Funny enough, I remember that poster for that movie when it was first released. It also showed the simplicity of what movie posters looked like, and you don’t see that now these days where movie posters practically spell out the plot of the movie for you before you have a chance to see it.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

The funniest thing I remember about Eragon is that when I was a kid and a wannabe fantasy writer who had just gotten off a Lord of the Rings binge, I kept coming up with all these fantasy outlines with these cliched characters, one of whom was an Aragorn expy named rather creatively...Eragon.

It was a hell of shock when as an older teenager I saw Eragon in a book store for the first time. Also Paolini is an uninspired hack.

 

[Mega Black]

I read all the books when I was a child. Eragon is a stone cold psychopath in those books. It's like Eragon has been raised properly, but there's this odd disconnect for him, where without other people to guide his morals he starts to become unhinged.

Paolini was homeschooled by parents who saw him as a business opportunity more than a son. So this characterization kind of makes sense when you realize Eragon is the self insert of a maladjusted and intensely isolated autistic boy.

 

[Stoneheart]

This will make Drachenlord very very happy!

So how long does hollywood have to dig though the IP dustbin before I get a Bartimaeus trilogy adaptation? 11yo me loved those books.

is that about bats?

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Eragon wasn’t even popular when it came out.