Eragon

And then Jeremy Irons also was in another dragon film.

He was in Eragon.

Didn't see that one.

He's got no warriors.

Yeah.

And I selected Eragon.

Is that about the dragon with Sean Connery? Is Sean Connery in it? You're thinking of something

else.

There is one where Sean Connery voices a dragon.

Oh, right, okay.

Is this a dragon film, then, Eragon? It is a dragon film.

Because

Welcome back, of course, Mila Jovovich from Resident Evil.

Sienna Gullery from Eragon.

Eric Mabeus from Resident Evil.

Thomas Kretschmann from Wanted.

clearer.

Eragon, the dragon from the book Eragon.

Okay.

At the end of our quiz, our winner with a whopping one point, Ian McIntyre.

I can't really think of anything she's like been good in lately.

The only other thing I think I've seen her in outside of these Resident Evil movies was the fucking Eragon movie.

She's so bad in that movie.

[laughs]

Weiss has been in some big productions, though, like the sci-fi conspiracy thriller Chain Reaction with Keanu Reeves, and Enemy at the Gates with Jude Law, and of course she was also in The Mummy Returns, even though she was recast for Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

She did the romantic comedy about a boy, the action horror film Constantine, the YA film Eragon, and whatever the fuck Fred Claus was, and she had some prestige arthouse roles in The Fountain, The Lobster, and The Lovely Bones.

More recently, she was in the historical drama The Favourite and the Marvel movie Black Widow, as well as a TV adaptation of Dead Ringers, and she will also be returning for The Mummy 4, and I confess, I'm genuinely looking forward to it.

Playing Evelyn's brother Jonathan is John Hanna, a Scottish actor who's very, very Scottish in all the behind-the-scenes featurettes, and it's a bit like hearing David Tennant go from his 10th Doctor Mockney to his native accent.

hit that up.

Yeah, Eragon was good

while it lasted.

It does not hold up and didn't hold up

And

Narnia, yeah.

Eragon's probably inevitable, but I also don't know if the books have the same power like those others do.

I

It shatters the reader's desire to engage with the author's world ever again.

Eragon didn't just fail to entertain.

It acted as a visual virus that infected and killed the host's love for the entire literary franchise.

Wow.

But before we sign off, I want to leave you with one final, slightly unsettling thought to chew on regarding the nature of our own minds.

Oh, lay it on me.

Well, if a terrible, unappealing visual adaptation like Eragon genuinely possesses the psychological power to retroactively destroy our desire to read the rest of a beloved series, does that suggest that our own internally generated imaginations are actually incredibly fragile constructs?

That is a scary thought.

you and me both.

So with that said, we're not going to be doing any movie bucket talk just because Alyssa last week picked her movie and she'll be back next week for that, which was Eragon.

I know.

Did you want to mention quickly Eragon or Treasure Planets?

For Alyssa next week, Eragon was terrible.

Yeah.

She'll agree.

But I can see why you guys like it.