And with everything set for a box office hit, Eragon was met with lukewarm (that’s a euphemism) reception by both fans and critics and the success Fox had hoped for was not anywhere near. The prerequisite was, of course, the success of Eragon but 20th Century Fox really counted on the movie being successful. Why is there no sequel to Eragon movie?Īs we have established, 20th Century Fox had every intention to adapt both of Paolini’s sequels and even to shoot them back-to-back. So what happened? Why was the franchise abandoned? We’ll dig into the reasons in the sections that follow. Yet, we never got any sequels to Eragon nor are we going to in the future. So, the studio had initial plans to adapt both of Paolini’s books and the intention was to film them back-to-back had Eragon been successful, as was expected. I think they were modestly happy with the worldwide box office.” – Interview with Stefen Fangmeier I don’t know if Fox is waiting to see the revenues the DVD will create. That means, given the time frame, it might still be another year before there are actually are scripts for both films and these things can move ahead. Then probably filming two and three together as they did with Pirates of the Caribbean as one production. I think one would be best off to write the third film first, and then, being happy with that, going back to the second one and doing all the set-up work that will pay off in the third. I think until you kind of have an understanding of what the third piece of that puzzle is, it’s kind of hard to look at that second book, of course I read it, it’s very much a transitional story element.

I think it’s very important to see where this ends up how it’s resolved. Evidentially, I asked Christopher (Paolini writer of the Eragon trilogy)…, about that and he was not volunteering much of what was going to happen. My own personal perspective is that until we sort of figure out what happens in the third book. “I’m not quite sure what is currently going on. In an interview published by MovieWeb, director Stefen Fangmeier had this to say about the studio’s plans for the franchise: With a budget of roughly $100 million, Eragon was a very ambitious project for the time, and 20th Century Fox had high hopes that it would turn into a franchise that would end up adapting all of Paolini’s then-written novels (three in total).

It was an adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s bestselling fantasy novel of the same name and was expected to be a massive success for 20th Century Fox. What did Christopher Paolini think of the Eragon movie? Will there be an Eragon 2?Įragon is a British-American fantasy film that premiered on December 15, 2006.

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