After the success of Peter Jackson‘s Lord of the Rings trilogy and the first few Harry Potter movies in the early 2000s, Hollywood was hungry for more fantasy novels to adapt into feature film franchises. And along came Christopher Paolini, who brought with himself his self-published novel Eragon, and free publicity for the fact that he was a teenager when he’d written it. A movie adaptation was quickly green-lit, with two sequels lined up. The Eragon adaptation hardly turned out to be the new Lord of the Rings, however, tanking both critically and commercially. Amid reports of a series reboot for Disney+, the movie will soon be made available to watch on Hulu.

Eragon featured Ed Speleers in the titular role of a young man sent on an epic hero’s journey, in a fantastical world populated by sorcerers and dragons. The film was directed by the debutante Stefan Fangmeier, who was also signed to helm two follow-ups. The rest of the cast was rounded out by A-list character actors John Malkovich, Robert Carlyle, Djimon Hounsou, and Jeremy Irons, with Rachel Weisz voicing the dragon Saphira. Produced on a reported budget of $100 million, the movie made $250 million at the worldwide box office — this isn’t too shabby a performance, but the reviews really hurt the film.

It’s now sitting at a 15% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Eragon is a fantasy epic that lacks any magic, brought down to earth by unconvincing world-building and a litany of stars who seem bemused by the material.” With a major franchise at stake, the studio left no stone unturned in promoting the film. They released a tie-in video game, and got Avril Lavigne to sing an original song — could there be a sentence more representative of Hollywood circa 2006?

‘Eragon’ Is Headed the Way of Percy Jackson

The film’s failure immediately resulted in the cancellation of the sequels, but a new streaming series is said to be in the works at Disney+, with Paolini contributing as a writer. The streamer pulled off a similar reboot of the Percy Jackson books, which had previously been adapted into two feature films that did middling business and didn’t exactly excite hardcore fans. The last major update about the Eragon show came from Paolini earlier this year; he revealed that the project is still on track, but contract negotiations are holding things up.

You can watch the movie on Hulu beginning November, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.