It lets the studio know that there's a fanbase, that they're active, that they're engaged, and that they care about the material." "I'm pushing very hard and there are some movements online to do a tweet storm or get a hashtag trending and see if we can get Disney's attention," Paolini told the Flights Through Alagaësia podcast last month. Paolini wrote on Reddit that if Disney reboots Eragon, the books are likely to be adapted as a series on Disney+ instead of another feature film. Like Eragon, 20th Century Fox adapted the first Percy Jackson book, The Lightning Thief, into a 2010 feature film that left book fans - and Riordan - disappointed.īring the thunder Alagaësians! Let hear you roar! Use the hashtag #EragonRemake, mention in the body of the tweet, and let them know we want to see a proper Eragon adaptation! 15 years later, Paolini is rallying an army of Alagaësians on social media urging fans to tell Disney that "we want to see a proper Eragon adaptation." The Walt Disney Company acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019, giving control of Eragon to Disney.Īt 30,000+ tweets and counting, fans tweeting up a storm are hopeful Disney will properly adapt Eragon after author Rick Riordan announced his own young adult novel series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, would receive a more faithful adaptation as a live-action series on Disney+.
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