Reader Poll: What About Eldest?

Please, please don't make a movie of Eldest. I happen to love the book, and unless a miracle were to happen, the movie would probably be just as horrible as Eragon.

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they marketed it aggressively-i saw the trailers for the game and the movie more times than i care to count. i assume they put it on a ton of screens. they paid $100M to make the thing. what else could they have done to make it sell better?

at the end of the day you just have to ask yourself how much money do you really want to lose...

For the record, FOTR easily could have been every bit as bad but somewhere along the way peter jackson and fran walsh were able to find the magic that made it work, and boy did it.

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I agree with a lot of people that for the most part Eragon and Eldest are basically fantasy madlibs, but that doesn't mean they aren't enjoyable actually far from it.

I saw the movie and I loved the visuals, but my goodness the lines in this movie were cheesy beyond belief. The writing for this movie was horrendous. They stripped out every vestige of an original concept and they went straight to filming. This is the main reason why it felt like the watered-down bastard child of LoTR and Star Wars.

All that said, I would be interested in seeing Eldest made, as long as someone does a quality check on the screen-play beforehand.

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It goes down to the old tug of war, quality versus money. Eragon was a flop for the main reason MANY films have been flops, terrible writing, not filmed right (1 hour 39 minutes?? come on now, Pixars cars was 2 hours.)
If they want to do eldest, do it right. Hire a quality director, and quality script person, and cast more proficently. Studios and movie companies dont understand, fans will wait 2 years, and for a 3 or more hour long movie....if it is GOOD. that entails, charater development, story relative to the book, and actors who fit the story. (speelers is NOT what anyone i belived pictured as eragon)
but putting together a rush job, just to make the money...we arent fooled as moviegoers, why do you think harry potter almost died after the horrible POA movie.

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i would love to see a movie eldest, only if it would be as much as it should be of Saphira...cause that's the only reason whyy i like this book...because of the dragonlady Saphira, and for eldest, don't forget Thorn and Glaedr

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I TRIED to read the books but found them confusing...all the foreign words and such...the movie was a disaster and didn't clear-up the books at all...it's a "guy-flick"...too much testosterone for me!

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I have read both Eragon and Eldest. I was so looking forward to seeing the Inheritance Trilogy put onto the big screen. My 11 year old son and I could not believe the screenwriter's interpretation of the movie. Many main characters were left out - 95% of the real plot line was completely ignored. No, they can't translate a 500+ page book into a movie exactly, but there was no character development whatsoever. Any who are commenting that this movie was a blatant act of plagiarism against LOTR and Star Wars are taking the screenwriters version of Eragon to heart - NOT the books. All books of fantasy will undoubtedly have similarities. The author of the Inheritance Trilogy, Christopher Paolini, created a much richer, detailed, emotion provoking world. It seems Fox has created the 'knockoff' version on their own accord, to their cost.

Yes, I would like to see Eldest on the big screen. IF it included Urgals (with horns, et. al - not the Mad Max/Braveheart renditions), more on the Dwarfs (Hrothgar,Orik), Solembum, Angela, Jeod, Horst, Katrina, the Twins, etc. Without the real, developed characters of the books, the movies WILL be flat and have too much of a feeling of deja vu. Oh, and why on earth did they have to start the movie out with Horst's sons being and Roran running from being conscripted into Galbatorix's army? For those that have not read the books, Galbatorix hasn't even been seen so far. Roran and the other Carvahall villagers have a very important roll in Eldest. I would say that if Fox goes forward with Eldest starting right where it left off in Eragon, it will no longer even be about the same works.

The dragon CG was wonderful, and for the record, my 7 year old son (who didn't want to see the movie to begin with because he's not yet interested enough in the books because of his age), loved the movie. It had plenty of action, but no real plot to relate to.

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I love fantasy. I have read all of Terry Brooks, Tolkien, Anne Mcaffrey, J.K. Rowling, etc. I did read Paolini as well. I felt his writing was very immature, his plot was loose and the story wandered too much before barely making a point. The problem with the movie lies within the book. Young Paolini needed an editor to cut the fat out of his writing and streamline the flow of the story. Paolini has a lot of potential to be a great writer if he can get a good editor. I went to see the movie in hopes that a good screen writer would see to the heart of the story and define the plot. I was disappointed. It came out as highlights, like a commercial, encouraging people to read the book. I did like the cinemtograpy and special effects. Saphira was perfect and the telepathic bond between Saphira and Eragon was done well. Sadly what could have been will never be. Just like the book, a great story was in embryo, but never revealed.

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I really enjoyed the book and found the movie quite a disapointement (sp?). I TOTALLY agree w/ waht Tony posted earlier: Fox is just trying to get $. They should have followed the book more closely instead of trying to make their own version by copying LotR, Stars Wars, and Mites and Magic. I can understand if they had to make a FEW changes, but COME ON!!! They totally destroyed the movie and made it into a mindless, scriptless, and plotless movie. It was all a rush too and WAY too short to actually understand unless u have read the books. If they want to make Eldest, I would give Fox 1 piece of advice: hire a director who has had former experience w/ making book adaptations into a big screen movie and to get a screenwriter who doesn't make every line sound like it's dripping w/ cheese.

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I think they should make an Eldest movie. They should get Christopher Paolini to write the script though. Because Eragon was the worst movie ever. I am sorry to say that. They left out most of the characters, put things in there that didnt belong, and what was up with Saphira's growing up. I mean that was the worst part in the movie. Not to mention that he was supposed to hear from the sage and go with Arya. So they need new directors and Christopher for the screen writer. Then Eragon was sale, sale, and SALE!!!! So I do hope they make it because it wouldnt be right to start a movie series off and not end it.. THAT IS WHAT I THINK!

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You want an honest answer? Hell no. The first film shouldn't have been made in the first place. The people who read for entertainment don't realize how much of rip-off Eragon is of the classics. You want to hear everything wrong with this series? Simply go to www.anti-shurtugal.com

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They should make eldest and empire. yet what they should do is take peter jackson and ask him to help thescreenwriter. then it will only be a minor piece of crap the books shouldnt be published yet in the first place

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I have yet to read the books, but as a writer, I could easily see that a majority of the book's plot was left out of the first movie. "Eragon" the movie was another example of money hungry execs, trying to cash in rather than bring us a quality movie. We witnessed this in "Star Wars 1-3", "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and many other recent blockbusters that have focused most of their energy on technology and CGI than giving us characters and plot we care to watch.

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I really liked the movie eragon. I saw it twice in fact, and yes i did read the book. I was really angry the first time i saw it, and then i realized that their budget was not enough to have all of the major things in it so the second time i saw it i thought it was amazing. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want them to make ELDEST as long as they can stay closer to the book than they did with eragon. I have told my friends that they can have the entire movie messed up BUT they BETTER have the final battle scene exactly like it is in the book.

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I loved the story of Eragon and I have read several fantacy style books. This movie could have easily been on the scale of LOTR, but it seemed like the movie makers really skimped. The grafics were great and the actors weren't even that bad, but there could have actually been an extra hour in the movie to go a little more into the story, like the background, who the young goth guy was in relation to the story and a little bit of the history of the story. I think the writer of the book must have been a little disappointed to see a half told story on the big screen. Also, I think Eragon's cousin was wearing Express Jeans when he was leaving for his journey--what was that? Were they wearing jeans in this story?
Personally I would love to see Elder on the big screen, but please have someone do it on the scale of Harry Potter or LOTR. Get us into the story!
Thanks,
Janelle

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If they make Eldest, they better be truer to the book. I saw Eragon with my cousin and on the way home we spent a long time discussing what they left out/changed. I want REAL Urgals! Not men with tattoos! And what happened to Eragon's scar, Angela the crazy witch(one of the most awesome characters in the books) and Solembum???

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I loved the books, the ONLY way i would want Eldest to be made into a movie would be for Christopher Paolini to be involved in the making of the movie so they dont change and leave out so many important characters and plots like they did in Eragon

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I loved the book eragon. the movie ended up stinking. The urgals didnt have horn and the dwarves were tall. Most of the best scenes were cut out. I give the movie 1.5 stars.

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The fact that everyone's going gaga over this kid's plagerism is beyond me. I think a reviewer got it best when he randomly inserted Star Wars/LOTR/Harry Potter names, jargon and plot points into the film's review. I don't mind getting involved in a new fantasy...but can it be just a little original?

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It seems that everybody is just hopping on the Harry Potter band-wagon just to make a fast buck, and it's not just with the movies, authors are doing it too!
I remember when Harry Potter was first out, everyone was enthralled because no one had written a story like that. But as soon as everyone saw what a money maker it was, they quickly penned down stories just like it. I cant tell you how many books and movies I've seen that are just like HP & LOTR. Why cant they think up something new and original! It's just to much of a combination of other ideas from other stories thrown together. Eragon just seems like another jumble, the way Narnia was.

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