ERAGON - DRAGONS ON FILM!!

jarvisjarvis · 17 Oct 2006 at 16:43

has anyone read any of the Inheritance theory by Christopher Paolini?

he was only 15 when he started writing them! cant wait for Eragon to come out in December, have a gand...www.eragonmovie.com

dafloppyone · 20 Oct 2006 at 22:28

no and no and no.....

and they have a blond guy trying to impersonate heath ledger in the film!

KaHn · 21 Oct 2006 at 12:27

It looks pretty good.

KaHn

jarvisjarvis · 31 Oct 2006 at 10:55

There's a new trailer on http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/eragon/traileri/trailer_lg.html which i think is much better, it's much more dramatic and slick looking.

Zirax · 31 Oct 2006 at 11:36

That might be worth having a look, thanks for the heads up

AJUK · 31 Oct 2006 at 13:23

Not exactly Lord of the Rings but that looks damn good. A proper Christmas film for entertaining the kids, or in my case, a great big kid - me.

n3crius · 31 Oct 2006 at 13:45

i'd heard a bit about this a while ago (never read the book) and it sounded good.

then i saw the trailer the other week and just thought it looked awkward and weak. cgi dragon overkill toward the end of the trailer just totally put me off.

probably because i'm a massive lotr fan but there ya go.

chrisd · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:18

The book seems to be a shameless copy of Lord of the Rings.

Phoenix211 · 1 Nov 2006 at 14:05

chrisd said:
The book seems to be a shameless copy of Lord of the Rings.

lotr had dragons?

chrisd · 1 Nov 2006 at 17:05

Phoenix211 said:
lotr had dragons?

I'm not sure whether that's a genuine question or you're just being pedantic.

Phoenix211 · 1 Nov 2006 at 17:11

chrisd said:
I'm not sure whether that's a genuine question or you're just being pedantic.

genuine question. I dont remember lotr having dragons in it and as far as i can tell from the trailers, the film (book) seems to concentrate on a dragon, please correct me if im wrong though as ive only seen the trailer.

chrisd · 1 Nov 2006 at 17:33

Phoenix211 said:
genuine question. I dont remember lotr having dragons in it and as far as i can tell from the trailers, the film (book) seems to concentrate on a dragon, please correct me if im wrong though as ive only seen the trailer.

I'm not referring to dragons. Whilst I appreciate that most fantasy books written since TLOTR will borrow from it, this book seems particularly uninspired. Not only are some names directly copied from Tolkien but many themes are. It's also a very slow book, which sticks to well established fantasy book principles.

Without J K Rowling making fantasy a mainstream success, doubtless this book would have gone unnoticed.

jarvisjarvis · 6 Nov 2006 at 15:16

Perhaps but that doesn't mean it doesn't have positive aspects just because fantasy is now mainstream. I think the story's pretty solid will have to see about the film - initially it looks ok

Eliot · 6 Nov 2006 at 18:01

chrisd said:
I'm not referring to dragons. Whilst I appreciate that most fantasy books written since TLOTR will borrow from it, this book seems particularly uninspired. Not only are some names directly copied from Tolkien but many themes are. It's also a very slow book, which sticks to well established fantasy book principles.

Without J K Rowling making fantasy a mainstream success, doubtless this book would have gone unnoticed.

also lotr has dragons

Phoenix211 · 6 Nov 2006 at 21:25

Eliot said:
also lotr has dragons

a firework

jarvisjarvis · 13 Nov 2006 at 11:43

Speaking of Dragons - I think Saphria looks well done in the movie. This poster nice. I like it.

valve90210 · 13 Nov 2006 at 14:36

Saw the first trailer for this and thought it looked a bit like a high budget TV series rather than a big budget film. Everything and everyone looked too clean and well kept, which totally disagreed with the surroundings.

Might be worth a watch though, will have to see what the reviews say.

Valve

jarvisjarvis · 17 Nov 2006 at 12:35

valve90210 said:
Saw the first trailer for this and thought it looked a bit like a high budget TV series rather than a big budget film. Everything and everyone looked too clean and well kept, which totally disagreed with the surroundings.

Might be worth a watch though, will have to see what the reviews say.

Valve

Have you seen the the other trailers? They are much better and look really big budget

+ I got a few pictures which I quite like,

jarvisjarvis · 11 Dec 2006 at 10:12

Just read in the Metro that the WORLD premiere of Eragon is in London tonight. I would have thought it would have been in the States but there you go.

bledd · 11 Dec 2006 at 11:56

this looks hella gay