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Eragon Movie

Postby Godly Paladin » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:08 pm

Totally unreal. This kid writes a book, it hits big, and then they make a movie about it, all in under five years.

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Postby Alice » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:23 pm

Ah, the green eyed monster. Yus. We must fight it. :/ Perhaps you'll have your day, GP. :grin:
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Postby Shadowchild » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:26 pm

wow how successful. o.o
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Postby Godly Paladin » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:31 pm

Ah, the green eyed monster. Yus. We must fight it. :/ Perhaps you'll have your day, GP.


I've been dreaming recently about getting my novel published and hitting it big so I'll never have to work a day in my life.

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Postby ChristianKitsune » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:33 pm

OOOOOOH when is it cominh out? info plz!!!!!!
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Postby Godly Paladin » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:34 pm

2006. They're in preproduction. You can find what little info there is at http://www.imdb.com. Just search for Eragon.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:50 pm

Afterwards he'll be almost as rich as Bill Gates and will be able to retire
before he turns 20! :lol:
Geez if I were that lucky I'd write one book per decade and with the
money buy a castle in Ireland. :lol:
Or maybe I'd save it all and buy up Comcast and Cartoon Network and
make them both go back and showing the sorts of anime and 'toons
I like! :lol:
Then I'd buy that castle in Ireland and one in Japan and one in
Spain and one in England.
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Postby bigsleepj » Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:50 pm

Castle's are expensive.

I'd buy a small piece of land in the middle of nowhere (or near the Waterberg Mountains in the Limpopo Province just north of where I live - see picture below) with a small house. Can you beat those moutains?

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Still I'm not really looking forward to the movie. I loved the book but this movie seems rushed.
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Postby Locke » Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:12 pm

The book just didnt yell "make me into a movie!"

Maybe a tv miniseries...but not a movie.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:25 pm

...maybe a mid-day movie. (lol)
I thought it was impressive that someone so young could get published and sell so many copies but I wasn't impressed how boring his writing style was and how unoriginal the story felt (like every other sword and sorcery style fantasy) blah.
Definetly not worth a movie.
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Postby Godly Paladin » Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:46 am

but I wasn't impressed how boring his writing style was and how unoriginal the story felt (like every other sword and sorcery style fantasy) blah.
Definetly not worth a movie.


Finally, someone agrees with me on his writing style and plot.
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Postby bigsleepj » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:10 pm

The story wasn't that unoriginal and the writing was quite good at some parts. Off course it just screamed "I WANT TO BE TOLKIEN" but that's a staple of the genre.
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Postby The Grammarian » Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:24 pm

I still have that book somewhere on one of my bookshelves. My dad gave it to me to read because he liked it, but it never struck me as all that interesting.

Personally, I'm looking forward more to the Halo movie--best sci-fi story I've seen in quite some time.
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Postby Godly Paladin » Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:04 pm

Off course it just screamed "I WANT TO BE TOLKIEN" but that's a staple of the genre.


:lol:

Too bad it's true. You can't write fantasy now without Tolkien's specter hanging over you. His work has become fantasy, really.
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Postby The Grammarian » Mon Aug 01, 2005 3:10 pm

As well it should be! Tolkien is the Shakespeare of fantasy, "The Bard" of Middle Earth.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:54 pm

It is hard to avoid the Tolkien influence, but some fantasy artists have done it. And they often have more interesting and creative works because of it. But they don't get very popular.
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Postby Godly Paladin » Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:46 am

...which doesn't really encourage everyone else to break free. :eyeroll:
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Postby EireWolf » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:18 pm

Then we must take up the sword of truth, and encourage them to break free!!!

Now, there's a metaphor that didn't work too well....
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Postby Todeskreuz » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:23 am

...I liked the book....of course he's young so he's grown up reading tolkien so your definately gonna have that influence in there... I don't think I'm too thrilled about the movie cuz movies after books usually aren't that good but I am looking forward to the next book in the trilogy
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Postby Godly Paladin » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:47 pm

cuz movies after books usually aren't that good


Oh, come now. That's not very fair. Lord of the Rings, friend?
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Postby EireWolf » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:48 pm

I look forward to the movie because I probably won't read the book. Judging from many of the reviews, his lack of originality would probably annoy me.

When I was around 10 years old, I wrote a "book" myself. Oddly enough, it had the plots and characters (including names) of a half dozen or so of my favorite books, with myself and some classmates thrown in for novelty. :shake:
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Postby Godly Paladin » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:50 pm

When I was around 10 years old, I wrote a "book" myself. Oddly enough, it had the plots and characters (including names) of a half dozen or so of my favorite books, with myself and some classmates thrown in for novelty.


:lol: Sounds a bunch like myself when I was that age, too. I suppose every aspiring writer starts out that way. :grin:
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Postby Sparrow Writer » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:46 pm

I didn't really find the book all that great...but I'll probably still end up seeing the movie sometime. Because I have no life.
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Postby bigsleepj » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:03 pm

EireWolf wrote:When I was around 10 years old, I wrote a "book" myself. Oddly enough, it had the plots and characters (including names) of a half dozen or so of my favorite books, with myself and some classmates thrown in for novelty. :shake:


Sounds like a book I once wrote. :grin:
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Postby Todeskreuz » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:32 am

When I was around 10 years old, I wrote a "book" myself. Oddly enough, it had the plots and characters (including names) of a half dozen or so of my favorite books, with myself and some classmates thrown in for novelty. :shake:


I think it sounds like a book everyone wrote when they were about 10...I know I had a whole series going like that for a long time...

but I guess i dunno...I still think the book was good... *shrugs* for being slightly unoriginal
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Postby Godly Paladin » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:09 pm

My first 'book' was a shameless rip-off of Star Wars. I called it "Space Battle", which--interestingly enough--just happened to be the name of an old Intellivision game I had at the time.
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Postby Heart of Sword » Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:19 pm

Hopefully the same thing will happen to me, though I'm not exactly a kid. :lol:

From what I heard, Eragon was not original. I'm writing a novel right now that I suppose is a little similar to Wolf's Rain in that there are wolves that can become humans, but they're generally shapeshifters and can become numerous things as long as the mind of whatever they become is extremely similar to a wolf's mind. It's not preachy, though I'm sure my personal views are made clear.

I'm getting bored with all the Tolkien ripoffs...
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Postby Myoti » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:06 pm

Personally, I thought the book was good, though sometimes slow and the whole thing was pretty cliched. Still, perhaps that will change in sequel.... perhaps...
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:06 pm

I want to see a novel where you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys until
the last page and then it screws everything up because nothing really happened the way you thought it did and the person who you thought was the villianness was really the central heroine.
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Postby Godly Paladin » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:04 pm

I want to see a novel where you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys until
the last page and then it screws everything up because nothing really happened the way you thought it did and the person who you thought was the villianness was really the central heroine.
HEHHEHHEH!


Oh, there are lots of those types of books. Mostly in mental wards. :grin:
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