Personally, this thread can be seen as a bit of a waste of time. For you see, it's nearly impossible to ruin something that was crap from the get-go.
Eragon, in addition to the obvious copying a more familiar story involving Wookies and X-wings, features a protagonist completely unlikable and a sense of morality that frankly rivals Richard Rahl in how terrifying it is. While especially apparent in the third book, Eragon's unsympathetic nature was still clear to me by the end of the first book, where I was wondering when Saphira would realize how whiny he was and eat him before joining up with Murtagh.
Twilight... Good GOD Twilight. Never in my life have I encountered a main protagonist and romantic counterpart who disgusted me so much. That's right, Bella and Edward made Eragon seem LIKABLE and developed in comparison. Bella's complete and utter lack of personality, in addition to the fact that she goes into her situation bitching about everything, made me wish that the vampires in Twilight ate her. But no, instead I get emo vampires the likes of which are far worse than anything made by Anne Rice, the woman who made vampires stop being threatening. Congratulations Stephanie Myer, you've taken a monster that started out threatening, became pathetic and angsty, and made it into something that while blessed with pure awesome and having apparently no downside aside from the sparkling, feel the need to whine and complain about each and every thing that happens to them. I suppose congratulations are in order, for you almost have to try to suck that hard.
So yeah, er, in my opinion, Hollywood can't fix what was broken from the get-go.
