‘Eragon’ Disney+ Series Sets Co-Showrunners Todd Harthan, Todd Helbing

The “Eragon” TV sequence at Disney+ has taken a big step ahead.

Variety has discovered that Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing have joined the project as co-showrunners, with Harthan set as co-creator on the present alongside “Eragon” writer Christopher Paolini. All three will function govt producers.

Marc Webb has also come aboard as an govt producer, as has Rachel Moore. As beforehand reported, Bert Salke will govt produce by way of Co-Lab 21. twentieth Television is the studio, with twentieth TV having optioned the total “The Inheritance Cycle” e book sequence. The present stays in development at Disney+. Harthan is at the moment under an total deal at twentieth TV.

Variety completely reported “Eragon” was in development at Disney+ again in 2022. The official logline for the present states, “When destiny selects an ordinary teenager to become the first Dragon Rider in over a hundred years, he must forge an unbreakable bond with his dragon, master ancient magic, and challenge the mad king who destroyed the Riders.”

Harthan is at the moment the showrunner on the hit ABC sequence “High Potential.” He beforehand created the Fox drama sequence “Rosewood” and has labored on other exhibits like “Psych,” “Crash,” “Dominion,” “The Resident,” and “The Company You Keep.”

Helbing was the co-creator on the common CW sequence “Superman & Lois,” while he was also the showrunner on fellow CW Arrow-verse sequence “The Flash.” He is at the moment growing a “Mech Cadets” TV sequence at Disney+ with Brent Fletcher, while he has also labored on exhibits like “Black Sails,” “Spartacus,” and “Smallville.”

Webb is thought for steering movies like “(500) Days of Summer” in addition to the blockbusters “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” His other credit embrace the feature “Gifted” starring Chris Evans and Jenny Slate and exhibits like “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Limitless,” and “High Potential.”

Harthan is repped by UTA and Circle Management + Production. Helbing is repped by CAA and Gendler, Kelly, and Cunningham. Webb is repped by CAA and Lichter Grossman.

“Eragon” is the first of the 4 “Inheritance Cycle” books, adopted by “Eldest,” “Brisingr,” and “Inheritance.” The books have collectively bought more than 40 million copies worldwide.”Eragon” was beforehand tailored into a movie of the same title in 2006 with Ed Speleers as Eragon, Rachel Weisz as the voice of Saphira, Jeremy Irons as Brom, and John Malkovich as Galbatorix. The movie was widely panned by critics upon its release and grossed roughly $250 million at the worldwide box workplace against a reported funds of $100 million. In 2021, followers of the books started utilizing the hashtag #EragonRemake in an effort to get Disney to provide a sequence version given their disappointment with the movie.