Eragon (TV Series)

[Sotiris]

‘Eragon’ TV Series Adaptation in Development at Disney+
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/eragon ... 235325019/

‘Eragon’ Disney+ Series Sets Todd Harthan, Todd Helbing as Co-Showrunners, Marc Webb Boards as Exec Producer
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/eragon ... 236651963/

‘Eragon’ Disney+ Live-Action Series Taps Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing as Co-Showrunners
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-conten ... owrunners/

Eragon Series "Still on Track" at Disney+: Author Christopher Paolini
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/eragon-seri ... r-paolini/

[Disney's Divinity]

I was never crazy about this book series. I might give it a go depending on the cast, I guess.

[PatchofBlue]

‘Eragon’: Todd Harthan, Todd Helbing & Marc Webb Join Disney+’s Live-Action Series Adaptation
https://deadline.com/2026/02/eragon-tod ... 236708983/

It had been so long since we'd heard anything about this that I was legit thinking the show was cancelled and buried.

I think part of what this says to me is that Disney is happy with how the Percy Jackson show is doing, such that they're willing to go ahead with bringing to life another YA book series from the 2000s with a much-maligned film adaptation. And I think, like the Percy Jackson property, the premise is promising, but there's also potential for the adaptation to actually outpace the source material if they aren't married to the letter of the text.

[Patricier21]

As much as I actually love the original movie (apparently the only person on the planet that does!) I actually will give a TV adaptation of Eragon a chance, because long story short, it doesn’t have the issues that Harry, Percy or Narnia would have with this kind of thing

[PatchofBlue]

How do you mean?

[Patricier21]

How do you mean?

Because The series was always meant to be told visually. If you watch the DVD special features, the author stated that he always plan on having this series be a movie, but literally did not have the money. For the record, I actually hate these books and know that the author cannot write. I also am pretty sure that more than most people only like it because of their love for Lord of the rings, and therefore only prefer the books because of the consented “rule“ that “the book is always better“. And for the absurdly bizarre reason that apparently because something is a “rip off“ and or rather reminding them of something that they love, it is bad. Let me repeat, people seem to consider something that reminds them of something that they love “bad”?
That is the main criticism that the movie got for people like John Campea who actually love Star Wars and yet criticize it for being a “beat for beat rip off of Star Wars“. Again, I honestly do not get it. If you love Star Wars so much, and especially with this being in a new genre/setting overall do you not think that would mean that you would like it more? I mean after all I don’t recall there being any spaceships in this? I don’t recall the gedwey insignia being in Star Wars? I don’t recall a lot of things you don’t have to look very hard from being in the other?

Compared to my other examples here well the thing is even though I would prefer them having continued the original series as well, I am more open to it because it’s not as big of a loss or as damaging as the other ones are. This is an adaptation that can actually be redone and more loyal to original source not standing the fact that we only got one movie again, regardless of the fact that they should’ve kept going.

I mean, like my best friend has said, along with many other people, they got Harry Potter overall perfect. Yes, even though there are a lot of things they could’ve done better with it, again OVERALL they got it right, and the movies are so beautiful with our culture that it’s literally absolutely ridiculous to try to reboot them. at least in live action, because I mean with the theme parks, it’s only gonna cause great confusion that I don’t really really need to get into, should I? And when you also consider that not only the movies, but their companion games, the Lego games, the illustrated books of which we have actually two different versions of, the official illustrative ones and the Mina Lima ones, add now the audiobooks, how many adaptation/versions of the story do we need?

With Narnia, what Disney and Walden did is literally as definitive and perfect as you’re going to get. I mean, honestly I literally can’t see how else they could’ve been more loyal and cinematic to them even if there are some things you can say about the latter two movies. from all that’s been revealed, this new Greta Gerwig movie is gonna be a complete catastrophe. That’s literally nothing like the books at all let alone not even a worthy adaptation in the slightest

And with Percy Jackson, despite how different it may be, it’s one of those times where they literally needed to make the changes that they did because frankly the original story just doesn’t translate well cinematically despite what fans may think. The movies, even if they could’ve been better and definitely could’ve had More from the books are way more focussed and grounded, and just overall believable and much better representation of the overall concept. More focussed and believable by having them be older and skipping a lot of quite frankly obvious nonsense in the books such as the fact that it’s already pretty obvious that he would be the son of Poseidon, and if he keeps causing all of these problems, constantly getting expelled and causing all this damage, then why does he not just stay at camp half blood year-round when he is clearly able to as literally just about everybody else does? Then being an older truly helps with that and again just truly makes what is the overall definitive version of them

[Disney's Divinity]

I might watch this--like with PJ, once it's done (if it finishes).

Eragon was never very good... I thought the movie of the first film was about as good as the book. How I'd rank the various fantasy novel series that come to mind that I've read would be:

1. Harry Potter
2. Lord of the Rings
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3. T.H. White's Arthur series
4. The Chronicles of Prydain
5. A Series of Unfortunate Events
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6. The Chronicles of Narnia
7. Percy Jackson
8. His Dark Materials
9. Game of Thrones
10. Earthsea
11. A Wrinkle in Time
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12. Pendragon
13. Eragon

I've bought Baum's Oz series over the past year (not the later ones released by other authors though), but I haven't read them yet. HP and LOTR are in a class of their own, none of the others really compare--at all--tbh. Narnia is a mess as a series, but some of the individual books are pretty strong (Voyage is my favorite). PJ is alright, a bit derivative of HP, but the original 5 books were overall decent. ASoUE is more childish than the rest, but feels better written and more consistent in quality than most of the series below it on the list. GoT does have an interesting plot, it's just dragged down by a lot of things (the extreme violence, the story detours, being unfinished, etc.). I always thought HDM was a bit boring... Even though it's more consistent in quality than Narnia and not as unserious as PJ sometimes is, the fact that they're so dull and cold makes them a hard read. I probably need to give it another go, I guess, same with Madeline L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time series. I re-read AWiT itself not that long ago, just haven't read any of the sequels since I was a child. Same with Earthsea--I re-read the main title not long ago, but the sequels not for a very long time (or at all). I also loved T.A. Barron's Merlin series growing up, it's just been so long since I've read it that it wouldn't be fair to rank it. My initial feeling is after Narnia. I'd like to read Discworld someday.

I wish the Prydain trilogy had happened. It would be nice if it got a miniseries on Disney+ once PJ is done. As far as adaptations go, the LOTR film series is a masterpiece. HP's film series is all over the place--I'd say PS, CoS, and DHp1 are close to the same level as LOTR's film quality was, then PoA and HBP are average... The HBO series probably can't improve on the first two films, but should (God-willing) mop the floor with the rest of them. I didn't think the PJ films were bad... What I've seen if the series version, it's mostly fine, too. HDM's and ASoUE's series are good, too (I hate we didn't get more of Nicole Kidman's Mrs. Coulter though). I'm happy Narnia is getting something new, but doubt it'll be as good as the films for TL,TW,&TW and Caspien. The film Caspien was better than the book.

[PatchofBlue]

The Eragon books have good stuff going for them, but I think there are very valid critiques of the series. The first two are quite derivative of Star Wars, and once the series started going off-script with the last two, it just kind of floundered. The Star Wars complaint is valid for me because they have not only the same premise, but a lot of the same twists, and it's fair to ask what it is he brings to the table that he didn't directly inherit from George Lucas.

And as with the Percy Jackson movies, I actually feel like a huge reason why book fans hate the film adaptation is that it actually displays what was always wrong with the source material--like the fact that you can cut out like 200 pages of adventuring and Eragon's final destination, in both the first book and the series as a whole, remains largely the same. If they can find a way to more cleverly stitch some of these mini-adventures together and give the characters a little more personality, the tv adaptation might just work.

(But, of course, I say all this acknowledging that Paolini was like a literal kid when he started writing these books. He did what most of said were going to do as teenagers--write a fully-realized epic fantasy series--but only he actually did. And for that, I still hold respect for him.)

The PJ books are fun, but somewhat pulpy. I can appreciate them now, but where I find myself finding new things about HP to love as I grow older, on the whole, revisiting Riordan's work as an adult just kinda returns me to that mindset of a middle-schooler. The Disney+ series has resolved some of my issues with the series, but it's also invented new ones. So there isn't really a perfect telling of the Percy Jackson story on the record--the books and the show are just kind of two lenses on the same set of glasses that you kinda need to look through together in order to catch a whole view of the story.

I'm actually presently rereading the HP series for the first time in like five years (started "Order of the Phoenix" this weekend), and I honestly still think they're phenomenally crafted works. I can find little issues if I really dial in, but YA fantasy has just been trying to keep up ever since 2007.

I do a HP movie marathon once a year-ish, and I think they're also pretty good. There's just enough room for improvement that a tv adaptation could do good, but while I wish the showrunners for the HBO MAX series well, I just don't think that another adaptation is what the fandom needs right now. Not with the movies still fresh, and especially not with the thunderclouds looming over Ms. Rowling at this time.

Anyway, while the movies are still technically flawed, there are things within the saga that are perfect that almost make the prospect of a new series sacrilegious. Like, Hans Zimmer is a master at his craft. But there aint no way he will create anything as magical as "Hedwig's Theme." And honestly it's a wonder we're not being struck by lightning for even putting him in a position to try.

Right now, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" on Netflix is the one to beat when it comes to televised adaptations of YA books. I think they did a fantastic job at translating the source material while also holding water as its own body of work.

I'm planning on re-reading the "Narnia" series sometime this year in preparation for the new movies, and I'll have a more accurate ranking for them. But I have fondness for the books and the first two movie adaptations from Disney.

It's also one of my deepest shames that I haven't actually read "Lord of the Rings," but it's on my list.