US Edition‘Eragon’: Todd Harthan, Todd Helbing & Marc Webb Join Disney+’s Live-Action Series Adaptation
Disney+ adapts bestselling Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini with a new writers room and executive producer Marc Webb, highlighting a globally popular YA fantasy franchise.
- Disney+ is developing a live-action TV adaptation of Eragon, with a writers room open since late last year and Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing joining as co-showrunners.
- 20th Television and Bert Salke, producer via Co-Lab 21, optioned the rights to The Inheritance Cycle in 2022, with author Christopher Paolini directly involved as co-creator and executive producer.
- Executive producers now include Bert Salke via Co-Lab 21, Marc Webb, and Rachel Moore, alongside Paolini, Harthan, and Helbing, as reported by Variety.
- With a large built-in audience, the adaptation faces high expectations after the 2006 Eragon film was widely panned with a Rotten Tomatoes 16% approval rating but earned $249 million worldwide, and the books stayed 121 weeks on the New York Times Children’s Books Best Seller list.
- Todd Harthan brings established showrunning experience, currently leading ABC’s High Potential and holding an overall deal at 20th TV.
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‘Eragon’ Disney+ Series Sets Todd Harthan, Todd Helbing as Co-Showrunners, Marc Webb Boards as Exec Producer
The “Eragon” live-action TV series at Disney+ has taken a big step forward. Variety has learned that Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing have joined the project as co-showrunners, with Harthan set as co-creator on the show alongside “Eragon” author Christopher Paolini. All three will serve as executive producers. Marc Webb has also come aboard as […]
Four years after the original announcement finally comes back movement in the planned Eragon series for Disney Plus.
"Why have all dragon movies been flops?": Before The Disney+ Series, Even The Studio Wasn't Sure About An Eragon Movie
The big news for those who love fantasy creatures is that the tale of Eragon is being adapted by Disney+. However, back when 20th Century Fox was working on the film, things seemed pretty dicey. In an old conversation with Phase9, the director of the Eragon movie, Stefen Fangmeier, recalled the doubts he faced before the filming began of the 2006 project. During a London press conference, he was asked what it takes for the filmmakers to make p…
Disney+ has just given a boost to the development of its adaptation in the series of Eragon by recruiting a duo of showrunners to drive this reboot, twenty years after the film that had so pissed off the fans. The 2006 Eragon film remains undoubtedly one of the biggest missed rendezvous in the field of adaptations [...]
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