Eragon (2006)

Director:

Stefen Fangmeier

Writers (WGA):

Peter Buchman (screenplay)
Christopher Paolini (novel)

Release Date:

15 December 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Tagline:

You are stronger than you realize. Wiser than you know. What was once your life is now your legend.

Plot:

In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.

Plot Keywords:

Chosen One | One Word Title | Courage | Dwarf | Fantasy World

Awards:

3 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. Aug. 3	1:30 PM	HBO
Wed. Aug. 6	2:30 PM	HBO

Cast

Ed Speleers	...	Eragon
Jeremy Irons	...	Brom
Sienna Guillory	...	Arya
Robert Carlyle	...	Durza
John Malkovich	...	Galbatorix
Garrett Hedlund	...	Murtagh
Alun Armstrong	...	Uncle Garrow
Christopher Egan	...	Roran (as Chris Egan)
Gary Lewis	...	Hrothgar
Djimon Hounsou	...	Ajihad
Rachel Weisz	...	Saphira (voice)
Richard Rifkin	...	Horst
Steve Speirs	...	Sloan
Joss Stone	...	Angela
Michael Mehlmann	...	Villager #1 (as Michael A. Mehlmann)
Tamás Deák	...	Villager #2
Matt Devere	...	Tall Soldier
Máté Haumann	...	Sergeant
Andrea Fazekas	...	Horst's Wife
Caroline Chikezie	...	Nasuada
Ágnes Bánfalvy	...	Varden Woman
Pál Makrai	...	Varden Guard
Spencer Wilding	...	Razac #1
Gábor Hortobágyi	...	Razac #2
Maggie Baird	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Johnny Gidcomb	...	Voice Actor (voice) (as John Gidcomb)
Peter Lavin	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Paula J. Newman	...	Voice Actor (voice) (as Paula Jane Newman)
Mark Silverman	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Julian Barnes	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Tony Armatrading	...	Voice Actor (voice) (as Anthony Armatrading)
Diane Mercer	...	Voice Actor (voice) (as Deanne Mercer Dennis)
Melissa Bickerton	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Kenneth Danziger	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Peter Dennis	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Neil Dickson	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Jean Gilpin	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Martin Jarvis	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Sean Mahon	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Kevin Owers	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Warren Press	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Darren Richardson	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Ian Ruskin	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Alan Shearman	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Julian Stone	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Mark Sussman	...	Voice Actor (voice)
Diz White	...	Voice Actor (voice)

Directed by
Stefen Fangmeier

Writing credits (WGA)
Peter Buchman		(screenplay)
Christopher Paolini		(novel)

Produced by
Roger Barton	....	co-producer
Kevin Richard Buxbaum	....	associate producer (as Kevin R. Buxbaum)
John Davis	....	producer
Wyck Godfrey	....	producer
Adam Goodman	....	co-producer
Kevin Halloran	....	co-producer: Canada
Gil Netter	....	executive producer
Chris Symes	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Patrick Doyle

Cinematography by
Hugh Johnson		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Roger Barton
Masahiro Hirakubo
Chris Lebenzon

Casting by
Priscilla John
Mindy Marin

Production Design by
Wolf Kroeger

Art Direction by
Michael Diner
Jonathan Hely-Hutchinson
Helen Jarvis		(supervising art director)
Stuart Kearns
Tibor Lázár
Stuart Rose

Set Decoration by
Elli Griff
Sandy Walker

Costume Design by
Kym Barrett

Makeup Department
Rosalina Da Silva	....	key makeup artist: Vancouver additional photography
Kajtar 'Bogyo' Janosne	....	hair and makeup artist (as Bogyó Kajtár)
Elizabeth Lewis	....	hair coordinator
Elizabeth Lewis	....	makeup coordinator
Thom MacIntyre	....	key hair stylist: Vancouver additional photography (as Thom McIntyre)
Ve Neill	....	makeup artist: Durza, motion rig unit
Trefor Proud	....	chief makeup artist
Katherine Rayner	....	chief makeup artist: motion rig unit
Katherine Rayner	....	makeup artist
Zoe Tahir	....	hair stylist
Tracey Wells	....	chief hair stylist

Production Management
Gergö Balika	....	unit manager
Carson	....	unit manager: Canada
Sammi Davis	....	production manager: aerial unit
Veronika Dobos	....	assistant production manager: second unit
Ravi Dube	....	unit manager
Tim Grover	....	post-production supervisor
Mary Guilfoyle	....	production manager: Canada
Branko Jehlar	....	production manager: Slovakia
Vaclav Mottl	....	unit manager: Slovakia
Edit Nagy	....	production manager: second unit
Malcolm Scerri-Ferrante	....	unit production manager
Peter Seres	....	production manager: part of pre-production, Hungary
Richard Sharkey	....	unit production manager: second unit
Miklós Tóth	....	production manager: Hungary

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Andy Armstrong	....	second unit director
David Arnold	....	second assistant director: additional photography, Vancouver
Edward Brett	....	first assistant director: additional photography, Vancouver
Tom Browne	....	third assistant director
James Chasey	....	third assistant director
Simon Emanuel	....	first assistant director: aerial unit
E.J. Foerster	....	second unit director
Richard Goodwin	....	key second assistant director
Stewart Hamilton	....	assistant director: stunts
Stewart Hamilton	....	third assistant director
Márk Herjeczki	....	third assistant director
Toby Hosking	....	second assistant director: second unit
László Kádár	....	second assistant director: second unit
László Kádár	....	second second assistant director
Tamas Lukacs	....	third assistant director
Peter MacDonald	....	second unit director
Peter MacDonald	....	unit director: visual effects unit
Bogi Móricz	....	second assistant director: crowd
Bogi Móricz	....	second second assistant director
Michael Murray	....	first assistant director: second unit
Christopher Newman	....	first assistant director
Nick Shuttleworth	....	second second assistant director
Jeff Taylor	....	second assistant director: visual effects unit
Tamás Vass	....	second assistant director: second unit
Kevin Westley	....	first assistant director: second unit

Art Department
Ali A. Ádám	....	art department assistant
David J. Aldred	....	storyboard artist
Don Anderson	....	props buyer
Giles Asbury	....	storyboard artist
Ravi Bansal	....	concept designer
Tomas Berka	....	art director: Fargo
John Chaschowy	....	greensman
John Dale	....	general foreman
James Robert 'J.R.' Davis	....	assistant set decorator: re-shoots
Jennifer Donaldson	....	set designer
Dave Emmonds	....	head greensman
Bence Erdelyi	....	assistant art director
Nora Feher	....	assistant art department coordinator
Warren Flanagan	....	illustrator
Jack Gauvreau	....	head sculptor: re-shoot
Luca Giampaou	....	metal worker
Heidi Gibb	....	stand-by art director
Paul Hedges	....	property master
Peter Hooper	....	greens supervisor
Zsuzsa Kismarty-Lechner	....	model maker
Imre Kiss	....	model maker
Rene Knol	....	supervising chargehand props
Jan Kobylka	....	construction coordinator
David Krentz	....	additional artist
Simon Lowe	....	greens person: second unit
Péter Magyar	....	production buyer assistant
Jon Marson	....	key greensman
Simon McGuire	....	concept artist
Dale Menzies	....	construction foreman
Dave Midson	....	location property master
Mihály Molnár	....	assistant art director
Mihály Molnár	....	stand-by art director
László Nagyidai Jr.	....	construction manager
Christine Parkin	....	draughtsperson
John Park	....	construction manager
Nick Pelham	....	storyboard artist
Mark Rimmell	....	production buyer
Colin Shulver	....	sculptor
Mark Swain	....	assistant art director
Lajos E. Szabó	....	stand-by construction
Patrick Tatopoulos	....	dragon concept artist
Sharon Thompson	....	art department coordinator: additional photography
Christian Tobin	....	props
Vladimir Todorov	....	storyboard artist
Mario Tomas-Niedworok	....	paint coordinator
Dávid Ungvári	....	assistant to production designer
Tom Whitehead	....	draughtsman
Tracey Wilson	....	storyboard artist
Dóra Zsámár	....	art department assistant
Bruce Gordon	....	art department sculptor (uncredited)
Rohan Lyal	....	lead greensman (uncredited)
Dennis Murray	....	head plasterer (uncredited)
Troy James Sobotka	....	leadman (uncredited)

Sound Department
Eric Batut	....	sound mixer: additional photography
Bruce Botnick	....	sound effects
Sandy Buchanan	....	adr recordist
Tim Burby	....	assistant adr editor
Tim Burby	....	assistant dialogue editor
Derek Casari	....	adr engineer
Dustin Cawood	....	assistant sound editor
Mark DeSimone	....	adr mixer: New York
Aren Downie	....	assistant sound editor
Sean England	....	foley recordist
Will Files	....	assistant sound designer (as William Files)
Nick Foley	....	adr recordist
Daniel Laurie	....	adr editor
Dennis Leonard	....	supervising sound editor
Travis MacKay	....	adr recordist
James McWilliam	....	programmer
György Mihályi	....	utility sound
Douglas Murray	....	sound effects editor
Chris Navarro	....	adr mixer
Chris Navarro	....	adr recordist
Al Nelson	....	sound effects editor
Jonathan Null	....	supervising dialogue & adr editor
Larry Oatfield	....	foley editor (as E. Larry Oatfield)
Gary Rizzo	....	sound re-recording mixer (as Gary A. Rizzo)
Ronald G. Roumas	....	sound re-recordist
Mac Ruth	....	sound recordist
Christopher Scarabosio	....	additional sound re-recording mixer
Michael Silvers	....	dialogue editor
Mac Smith	....	assistant supervising sound editor
Ted Swanscott	....	adr mixer
Pál Szûrös	....	boom operator
Eric Thompson	....	adr mixer
Randy Thom	....	supervising sound designer
Randy Thom	....	supervising sound editor
Randy Thom	....	supervising sound mixer
Dennie Thorpe	....	foley artist
Graham Timmer	....	boom operator: additional photography
Jana Vance	....	foley artist
Ian Wilson	....	adr editor: London
Kyle Gray	....	sound design intern (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Matthew G. Armstrong	....	special effects assistant: UK Motion Rig Unit
Tony Auger	....	special effects supervisor: motion rig unit
Kinga Baranyai	....	special effects buyer
Jonathan Barrass	....	special effects technician
Brian Best	....	creature effects supervisor
Herbert Blank	....	special effects senior technician
Antje Blümel	....	second unit special effects assistant
Ben Broadbridge	....	special effects crew
Nicola Di Chio	....	second unit special effects technician
Norman Ernst	....	special effects senior technician
Gerd Feuchter	....	special effects coordinator
Gerd Feuchter	....	special effects supervisor
Christoph Gartlacher	....	special effects technician
Markus Geiger	....	special effects foreman
Rolf Hanke	....	special effects project manager
Till Hertrich	....	special effects set supervisor: second unit
Wolfgang Higler	....	special effects senior technician
Chad Hofteig	....	previsualization artist
Roman Holub	....	special effects technician
Clive R. Kay	....	special effects contact lenses
Gabor Kiszelly	....	special effects coordinator: Hungary
Ronny Klost	....	special effects daily
Gyula Krasnyánszky	....	pyro coordinator
Michael Luppino	....	special effects foreman
Swen Luppino	....	special effects assistant
Klaus Mielich	....	crew coordinator
Klaus Mielich	....	technical coordinator
Armin Moritz	....	special effects senior technician
Uli Nefzer	....	special effects supervisor: second unit
Peter Orthmaier	....	special effects technician
Gonzalo Outeda Giménez	....	special effects technician
László Pintér	....	pyrotechnician
Monty Ploch	....	special effects assistant
Gerardo Ramirez	....	special effects
Bernd Rautenberg	....	special effects set supervisor
Dan Rebert	....	addition prosthetics artist
Frank Schlösser	....	special effects technician
Marcus Schmidt	....	special effects technician
Thomas Schultz	....	second unit special effects technician
Frantisek Sloup	....	special effects technician
Mathias Spannagel	....	special effects daily
Thomas Thiele	....	special effects senior technician
Jürgen Thiel	....	special effects senior technician
Neil Toddy Todd	....	special effects technician
Mike Vézina	....	special effects advisor: additional photography, Vancouver
Björk Wagner	....	special effects technician
Cam Waldbauer	....	special effects coordinator: additional photography, Vancouver (as Cameron Waldbauer)
Roland Weder	....	second unit special effects technician
Olaf Will	....	second unit special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Johan Åberg	....	digital compositor
Mimi Abers	....	digital artist: ILM
Gary Abrahamian	....	animation lead: CIS Hollywood
Ismail Acar	....	animator: ILM
Holly Acton	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Alia Agha	....	lead layout artist: ILM
Kevin Aguirre	....	previsualization artist
George Alcco-Sima	....	digital artist: ILM (as George Aleco-Sima)
Belinda Allen	....	digital artist
Charles Alleneck	....	animator: ILM
Jon Allitt	....	Massive supervisor: Weta Digital
Maura Alvarez	....	paint and rotoscope artist: CIS Hollywood
Colin Alway	....	compositing supervisor: Weta Digital
Christian Alzmann	....	concept artist: ILM
Stephen Aplin	....	animator: ILM (as Steve Aplin)
Christine Arboit	....	creature technical director
Dan Ashton	....	film recording technician: weta digital
Dave Asling	....	on-set supervisor
Alvise Avati	....	senior animator
Sindharmawan Bachtiar	....	senior wrangler
Trang Bach	....	digital artist: ILM
Lance Baetkey	....	digital paint/rotoscope artist
Kenneth Bailey	....	digital artist: ILM
Michael Bain	....	camera technical director: Weta Digital
Katharine Baird	....	digital artist: ILM
Michael Balog	....	creature technical director: ILM
Mark Barber	....	digital compositor: Weta Digital
Zeljko Barcan	....	motion system
Andrew Bardusk	....	visual effects: Chains
Kevin Barnhill	....	sequence supervisor: ILM
Peter Baustaedter	....	visual effects: Weta Digital (as Peter Baustedter)
Jamie Beard	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Cory Bedwell	....	digital effects artist
David Beedon	....	digital effects artist: Digital Dream VFX
Adrian Bell	....	lighting technical director
Hamish Bell	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Paula Bell	....	senior digital paint artist
Jeffrey Benedict	....	digital effects artist: ILM
James Bennett	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Dan Beresford	....	production support
Brian Best	....	visual effects modeler
Shweta Bhatnagar	....	matchmove artist: Weta Digital
Wayne Billheimer	....	visual effects production manager: ILM
Graham Binding	....	animator: Weta Digital
Jennifer Bloomfield	....	texture painter
Stella Bogh	....	digital artist: ILM
Jean Bolte	....	lead viewpaint artist: ILM
Samati Boonchitsitsak	....	character animator: ILM
Nick Booth	....	film recording supervisor: weta digital
Fernando Borges-Pacheco	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Brigitte Bourque	....	compositor: CIS Hollywood
Stephen D. Bowline	....	research & development engineer
Mike Bozulich	....	compositing supervisor: CafeFx
Adam Bradley	....	roto/paint artist: Weta Digital
Amanda Braggs	....	digital artist: ILM
Steve Braggs	....	sequence supervisor: ILM
Lee Bramwell	....	camera supervisor: Weta Digital
Kristie Breslin	....	pre-production coordinator: Weta Digital (as Kristie Breslin Husson)
Dawn Brooks	....	visual effects coordinator: Fox Studios
Tripp Brown	....	digital artist
David Brunette	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Ken Bryan	....	digital model supervisor
Sam Bui	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Andrew Bull	....	motion control data operator (as Andy Bull)
Matthew Bullock	....	digital modeler: Weta Digital (as Matt Bullock)
Joerg W. Bungert	....	digital colourist: Weta Digital
Jeremy Burns	....	digital compositor: CIS Hollywood
Cathy Burrows	....	digital artist: ILM (as Cathy Burrow)
Alex Burt	....	animator: Weta Digital
Barbara Busch	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Julian R. Butler	....	lead character setup: Weta Digital (as Julian Butler)
Michaela Calanchini	....	digital artist: ILM (as Michaela Calanchini-Carter)
Sonia Calvert	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Paul Campbell	....	digital artist: ILM
Paul Campion	....	texture painter: Weta Digital
Marshall Candland	....	digital artist: ILM
Cedric Canlas	....	digital modeler
Brian Cantwell	....	digital artist: ILM
Chas Cash	....	visual effects: Cinesite Europe
John Cassella	....	CG artist: CIS Hollywood
Norman Cates	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Daniel Cavey	....	production assistant: ILM
Tim Cheng	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Lee Chidwick	....	visual effects coordinator
Terry Chostner	....	digital artist: ILM
Eric D. Christensen	....	digital artist: ILM
Justin Christenson	....	assistant visual effects coordinator
Evan Christie	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Ian Christie	....	digital effects artist
Paul Churchill	....	digital artist
Patrick Clancey	....	digital opticals (as Pat Clancey)
David Clayton	....	animation supervisor: Weta Digital
Grady Cofer	....	digital artist: ILM
Peter Connelly	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Brian Connor	....	digital compositor: ILM
Grant Connor	....	digital effects artist
Rob Conn	....	digital effects artist: Weta Digital
Shane Cook	....	pre-visualisation artist
Jay Cooper	....	sequence supervisor
Karin Cooper	....	digital artist: ILM
Michael Corcoran	....	creature technical director
Daniel James Cox	....	digital matte artist: Weta Digital (as Daniel Cox)
Michael Cozens	....	character animator: Weta
Nick Crew	....	assistant visual effects coordinator (as Nicholas Crew)
Jim Croasdale	....	senior digital paint artist
Rob Crone	....	visual effects
Steve Cronin	....	digital compositor
Casey Dame	....	digital artist: ILM
Colin Davidson	....	digital double dense stereo engineer
Mark Davies	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Denise Davis	....	visual effects producer
Michelle Dean	....	digital artist: ILM
Laura Denicke	....	production coordinator: ILM
Karin Derlich	....	lead creature technical director
Richard Dexter	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Michael Di Como	....	digital production supervisor: ILM
Marco Di Lucca	....	digital modeller: Weta Digital
Brett Dix	....	digital compositor
Jonny Doig	....	production coordinator: Weta Digital
Jeff Doran	....	sequence supervisor: ILM
Scott Dougherty	....	visual effects executive producer: Furious FX
David Dozoretz	....	previsualization consultant
Richard Ducker	....	digital artist
Catherine Duncan	....	visual effects: Cinesite Europe
Gord Dunick	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Shawn Dunn	....	animation technical supervisor: Weta Digital
Yannick 'Botex' Dusseault	....	digital artist: ILM (as Yanick Dusseault)
William J. Earl	....	digital modeler
David Ebner	....	visual effects design: CafeFX
Areito Echevarria	....	digital compositor
Selwyn Eddy	....	digital artist: ILM (as Selwyn Eddy III)
Erich Eder	....	digital compositor
Samuel Edwards	....	render wrangler
Raul Essig	....	sequence supervisor: ILM
Paul Everitt	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Oliver Exmundo	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
C.W. Fallin	....	data integration coordinator
Katherine Farrar	....	visual effects coordinator
Ramahan Faulk	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Dan Feinstein	....	digital paint and rotoscope artist: ILM
Christine Feistl	....	roto/paint artist
Aaron Ferguson	....	creature supervisor
Florian Fernandez	....	digital models supervisor: Weta Digital
Rhett Finch	....	visual effects assistant
Kristina Flach	....	visual effects production coordinator: Weta Digital
Paul Flanagan	....	CG effects artist: Weta Digital
Brian Flynn	....	digital effects artist
Cameron Folds	....	animator: ILM
Ben Forster	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Fiona Foster	....	pre-production manager
Christian Foucher	....	digital artist: ILM
Zachary Franks	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Alec Fredericks	....	creature developer
Nick Gabchenko	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Vicki Galloway-Weimer	....	visual effects executive producer: CafeFX (as Vicki Galloway Weimer)
Eric Gambini	....	visual effects: Weta Digital
Danny Garcia	....	digital effects artist
Julia Gaudette	....	visual effects production manager: CIS Hollywood
Marcia Gay	....	visual effects production supervisor: motion rig
Paul Giacoppo	....	digital model supervisor: ILM
Angela Giannoni	....	digital compositor
Tim Gibbons	....	digital compositor
Kevin Gilmartin	....	visual effects modeler
Rocco Gioffre	....	visual effects supervisor: Svengali FX
Peter Godden	....	matchmove artist: Weta Digital
Jeff Goldman	....	visual effects supervisor: CafeFX
Jeremy Goldman	....	digital artist: ILM
Bridget Maria Goodman	....	digital effects artist: ILM (as Bridget Goodman)
Bryant Terrell Griffin	....	digital matte artist: ILM (as Bryan Griffin)
Belinda Griffiths	....	texture artist
David 'Rudy' Grossman	....	lead animation technical director: Weta Digital
Jean-Denis Haas	....	animator: ILM
Geoff Hadfield