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Mar 21, 2007 · Stefan Fangmeier talks about making the film, working with a first time actor and the possibilities of an sequel. Going very big with Eragon in his feature film debut, director/visual effects guru ...
Eragon. (film) Eragon (stylized in all lowercase) is a 2006 fantasy adventure film directed by Stefen Fangmeier (in his directorial debut) and written by Peter Buchman, loosely based on Christopher Paolini 's 2002 novel of the same name. It stars Ed Speleers in the title role as well as Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, Djimon ...
- Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart Were Offered The Role of Brom
- Two Planned Sequels Had to Be Canceled
- Jeremy Irons Was Already Familiar with Dragons
- There Were Some Issues with The Writers
- Eragon Won Emily Blunt Her Role in The Devil Wears Prada
- Saphira The Dragon’s Movements Were Based on Eagles
- Ed Speleers Had Difficulties Building A Rapport with A Tennis Ball
- Stefen Fangmeier, as of 2018, Has Never Directed Another Movie
- Eragon Was The Last Major Hollywood Movie to Be Released on VHS
- Book Tour Commitments Prevented Christopher Paolini from Doing A Cameo
The role of Brom, Eragon’s father, and original mentor was first offered to Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. They both turned it down in favor of X-Men: The Last Stand in which they played Magneto and Professor X, respectively, which they were both already committed to, having starred in the first two X-Menmovies before it. In the end, Brom was pl...
Director Stefen Fangmeier planned to shoot two sequels back to back, but the critical and commercial failure of Eragon led the studio to cancel the franchise. It grossed $249 million on a $100 million budget, so it wasn’t a total flop, but it certainly wasn’t anything to write home about. Plus, with a 16% score on Rotten Tomatoes making it the site...
Eragon was not Jeremy Irons’ first fantasy movie revolving around dragons. Before taking the role of Brom in Eragon, Jeremy Irons had previously appeared in the movie Dungeons & Dragons, although he felt that the production of Eragonwas better managed and more efficient than that one. Irons shared the screen with Marlon Wayans and Thora Birch in Du...
The way that writing credits work in the movie industry is incredibly complicated. Not everybody who worked on the script will end up with a credit on the final film, because the Writers Guild of America requires writers to have contributed a certain percentage of the screenplay before they are allowed to put their name on it. It can lead to a numb...
While Emily Blunt was under consideration for the role of Arya, the elf princess of Ellesméra in Eragon, a casting director at the studio took a liking to her. Sienna Guillory ended up getting the role of Arya, but that casting director kept Emily Blunt in mind and brought her name up later when the studio was casting their new Meryl Streep movie: ...
Even the critics who didn’t like Eragonadmitted that it looked incredible and that, from a technical point of view, it was quite masterfully made. This might be because the director, Stefen Fangmeier, has his roots in visual effects. A lot of consideration went into how the CGI would work. Rather than base the movements of Saphira on dragons, which...
As this was his first major movie role, Ed Speleers had trouble talking to and developing an on-screen relationship with a tennis ball that would later be replaced with a CGI dragon. Ewan McGregor had the same problem with the Star Warsprequels. There is one school of thought in teaching the acting method that acting is reacting. You react to your ...
Stefen Fangmeier, the director of Eragon, had never directed a movie before. Usually, it is an unwise move by a film studio to hire a first time director to helm a big budget blockbuster like Eragon, but Fangmeier was no stranger to the CGI and visual effects in those kinds of movies. For years, he had worked as a visual effects supervisor before m...
Remember VHS? That used to be the only way to watch a movie at home unless it was airing on television. You had to keep the VHS machine clean and at the end of the movie, you had rewind it back to the beginning for the next time you watched it, or you would just leave it and then have to rewind through the entire movie next time. We have since been...
Christopher Paolini, the author of the Inheritance series, wanted to make a cameo appearance in Eragon as a warrior who gets decapitated by the title character at the Battle of Farthen Dur, the epic final battle at the end of the movie. However, his commitments to a European book tour to promote his sequel book Eldestmeant that he couldn’t make it ...
Dec 11, 2006 · Eragon (2006) Reviewed by Stella Papamichael. Updated 15 December 2006. Contains mild fantasy violence and scary moments. Jeremy Irons reminiscing on days of yore when "men rode astride ...
Dec 14, 2006 · Stefan Fangmeier Creates Fantasy with Eragon [Exclusive] DVD, Blu-ray Release Dates. Director talks about making the film, working with a first time actor and the possibilities of an sequel.
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- Ed Speleers
Apr 9, 2007 · Fangmeier also provides commentary for seven deleted scenes. It's mostly 'character stuff' like establishing a flirtation between Eragon and the local butcher's daughter and his growing suspicions ...
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Eragon: Directed by Stefen Fangmeier. With Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle. In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realizes he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
