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Originally Posted by Garner
i suppose we can be thankful for THAT at least.
i dunno, i mean, this kid rips off star wars, pern, and a half dozen other fantasy settings and then he gets to sell the rights to this plagirism for god knows how much to the movie studios?
meanwhile, where the hell's the film adaptation of Neuromancer or, hell, even Xanth?
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Why do movies get made ?
Because movie makers want to make money. The same may be more or less true for books, but still, not the same public. Eragon seems to me like what the film will probably be : a hollywood mash-up. It's spectacular, it's fast and graphic. Does it matter where the ideas come from or whether the writer had any literary talent ? Nope. The kids like it.
They gave out extracts from the book at the cinema as teasers for the film, I read a little, the translation may just help it sound ok, but the story itself wasn't that great, I must say. Pretty unoriginal stuff.