Fangmeier said the 22-year-old author of the Eragon novel, Christopher Paolini, had already given Saphira enough lore and mystery to sustain her as a character. He focused instead on one aspect: the business of dragon flight. To that end the filmmaking team spent a lot of time debating the degree to which Saphira's wings should or should not resemble the standard bat wing. Eventually they added some feathers, though not so many as to tip the creature toward the canine-looking dragon Atreyu from the 1984 fantasy movie The NeverEnding Story.
Hogarth said he was certain that people would continue to believe in dragons, whatever the level of realism brought to bear in Eragon."
"In young people it's sort of understandable," he mused. "What surprises me is the middle-aged civil engineer wanting to come across the Loch Ness monster."
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