I honestly enjoy the Eragon movie. It's not the best movie, but I like Rachel Weisz's performance as Saphira, Jeremy Irons' and John Malkovich's overacting in any project is always a hilarious treat, and the final battle is legitimately a spectacle that shows off Dragon Rider stuff. IE, riding a motherfucking dragon into battle.
My brother and I used to play the Eragon PS2 game based on that movie, which had a number of interesting concepts in terms of co-op gameplay. Most interestingly was that the players shared control during dragon rider levels, with one player doing the flying and firebreathing as Saphira and the other player firing arrows and using magic as Eragon. It's one of the few truly positive, uncomplicated memories I have with my brother.
Adaptation to different kinds of media will always come with changes. In the process of becoming a video game, a whole lot of battles were added that aren't present in either the source books or the movie. The movie aggressively cut anything that didn't serve the coming showdown between Eragon & Durza and was frankly better for it.
Any chapter or selection of chapters selected to become an episode of a TV show will need to be reworked, cut somewhat, and expanded - each episode needs an individual arc that also serves the arc of the season. This means the episode(s) dealing with Saphira's raising will by necessity expand the roles of Horst, Elaine, Katrina, Garrow, and Sloan at a minimum. And if you're already doing the work of expanding these roles, you're going to look for opportunities to bring these characters back in future episodes to reward the audience for becoming invested - any showrunner is going to want to introduce characters who become really important like Murtagh and Nasuada earlier than in the books as well. And it's gonna be that way through the entire series. There truly is potential for this to be good but that depends on Paolini's ability to get out of his own way and accept the inevitability of change and the truth that there is no canon.
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My brother and I used to play the Eragon PS2 game based on that movie, which had a number of interesting concepts in terms of co-op gameplay. Most interestingly was that the players shared control during dragon rider levels, with one player doing the flying and firebreathing as Saphira and the other player firing arrows and using magic as Eragon. It's one of the few truly positive, uncomplicated memories I have with my brother.
Adaptation to different kinds of media will always come with changes. In the process of becoming a video game, a whole lot of battles were added that aren't present in either the source books or the movie. The movie aggressively cut anything that didn't serve the coming showdown between Eragon & Durza and was frankly better for it.
Any chapter or selection of chapters selected to become an episode of a TV show will need to be reworked, cut somewhat, and expanded - each episode needs an individual arc that also serves the arc of the season. This means the episode(s) dealing with Saphira's raising will by necessity expand the roles of Horst, Elaine, Katrina, Garrow, and Sloan at a minimum. And if you're already doing the work of expanding these roles, you're going to look for opportunities to bring these characters back in future episodes to reward the audience for becoming invested - any showrunner is going to want to introduce characters who become really important like Murtagh and Nasuada earlier than in the books as well. And it's gonna be that way through the entire series. There truly is potential for this to be good but that depends on Paolini's ability to get out of his own way and accept the inevitability of change and the truth that there is no canon.