News Eragon Disney+’s Eragon Series Has Finally Found Its Showrunners Can there ever be too many dragons on TV? By Molly Templeton | Published on February 5, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share Almost four years ago, Disney+ announced that a new live-action adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle was in development. Not just Eragon, the first book—previously adapted into a middling movie—but the whole four-book series, with Paolini on board as co-writer. And then we didn’t hear a peep more. But the show is still in the works at Disney, as it turns out, and now it’s got showrunners! Variety has the news that Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing have signed on as co-showrunners, with Harthan sharing the show creator title with Paolini. Todd Harthan co-wrote the 2007 movie Skinwalkers, but most of his work has been in TV, where he’s been a writer and showrunner on High Potential and The Resident, among other series. He also created the series Rosewood. Of the two Todds, Helbing has the stronger genre resume: He was a writer and showrunner on The Flash, and co-created Superman & Lois with Greg Berlanti (he was also showrunner for that series). His first writing credit, on IMDb, is an episode of Smallville. Helbing was also a writer and supervising producer on the second season of Black Sails, which is sort of funny: One of his Black Sails colleagues, co-creator Jonathan E. Steinberg, is now the co-creator of Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Like Eragon, Percy was initially a poorly received film before becoming a Disney+ series. According to Variety, the logline for the Eragon series is: “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.” No casting or production timeline has been announced for Eragon.[end-mark] The post Disney+’s <i>Eragon</i> Series Has Finally Found Its Showrunners appeared first on Reactor.