Following the monumental success of The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter films in the early 2000s, there was a scramble among movie studios to bring other popular fantasy novels to the big screen.

Back in 1998, Montana teenager Christopher Paolini began writing a YA fantasy novel entitled Eragon. The story of a farm boy named Eragon who finds a dragon egg in the mountains and becomes bonded to ...

Sienna Guillory on tackling the role of Arya in Eragon. She may still be young, but Sienna Guillory’s acting chops have seen her working with the likes of Penny Woolcock, Richard Curtis and Iain ...

In the rarefied world of young-adult fantasy, Christopher Paolini is a true rarity: a young adult who writes the stuff rather than simply reading it. Not only that, he has already sprinted beyond the ...

Medieval farm boy Eragon battles an evil kingdom in this fantasy dragon-fest. Creepy henchmen of the evil emperor Galbatorix come searching for the egg, which holds the key to an ancient legacy.

Shooting has already started in Budapest, but one piece of casting still had to fall into place to complete the line-up for Eragon, the story of dungeons, dragons and dodgy dealings from the ...