Disney+ is developing a live-action television series adaptation of Eragon, based on Christopher Paolini’s popular YA book series The Inheritance Cycle.
Eragon is the first book in the series. Paolini will co-write the series and executive produce with Bert Salke executive producing via his Co-Lab 21 banner as part of his deal with Disney Television Studios.
20th Television is the studio. In the series adaptation, a teenage boy becomes magically joined with a newly-hatched dragon.
Together, they must learn what it means to be dragon and Rider as they fight in the resistance against a tyrannical king. “This has been a long time coming,” said Paolini in a blog post. “I can’t tell you how many conversations, meetings, and messages were needed in order to reach this point.
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