After an audition process that made American Idol's look skimpy, Speleers was plucked from his British boarding school to play the title character in Eragon, the $100 million despot-and-dragons epic.

For the first time we get a proper look at the likes of Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich and young newcomer Ed Speleers doing their best to convince us that this is more than just another fantasy epic.