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ERAGON -
PREVIEW
 Eragon
(2006)
Starring:
Ed Speleers, John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou,
Robert Carlyle, Sienna Guillory
Director:
Peter Buchman
U.S.
Opening Date:
15 December 2006
With the huge popularity of Lord
of the Rings, Harry Potter and
Chronicles of Narnia it should come as no
surprise that Hollywood producers are scurrying about like mad to acquire
the rights to all kinds of obscure literary fantasy properties to adapt
for the big screen.
No, I haven’t heard of Eragon either (sounds
suspiciously like one of the characters in Tolkien’s
Lord of the Rings books though), but it is
apparently a novel by one Christopher Paolini beloved by fans of the
genre.
Why the sudden audience interest in the genre when the 1980s saw
most fantasy movies (Willow,
Legend, etc.) flop big time at the box office? I
don’t know. Maybe fantasy is more popular than sci-fi right now because
the future has caught up with us and simply isn’t as appealing as it once
was. Or maybe that most sci-fi movies nowadays are actually action movies
in disguise and not really that exciting? Who knows?
What I want to know is why anyone hasn’t bothered
making a big budget movie version of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
yet?
Maybe celluloid fantasy just isn’t quite ready for self mockery right
now . . .
Anyway, will Eragon be our regular December
fantasy fix
—
or will it be the next Dungeons & Dragons?
Only time will tell . . .
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Plot
Based on the Christopher Paolini-penned
bestselling fantasy novel about a youth whose discovery of a dragon egg
leads him to become a knight and battle an evil king. The medieval-set
tale revolves around a farm boy who learns he is the last of a breed of
benevolent Dragon Riders, whose magical powers derived from their bond
with the beasts.
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