When I found out last week that the Eragon trailer had been delayed again, for the fourth time — count ‘em: 1, 2, 3, 4 — I didn’t even bother to blog about it. Honestly, I thought, who cares at this point? Who the heck knows when that darn trailer is actually going to come out?

But now, at last, some good news: the trailer has been leaked! Sure, it’s a crappy-quality, videotape-of-a-screen, soundless (well, dialogue-less) version, but it looks legit. See for yourself here! CanMag, my primary source for Eragon-trailer-related news, writes:

Sure, it isn’t the best resolution and it is video taped, but it features a f*ckin’ dragon people! [I have had it with these m*****f***in’ scales on this m*****f***in’ dragon! -ed.]

The best part is that the ‘teaser’ actually looks way better than I could have hoped considering that Fox keeps delaying the damn thing.

CanMag adds, “I would again like to point out that there is a chance that this is NOT the teaser trailer for Eragon or at least not a videotape of the finished version.” I guess we won’t know for sure until the trailer actually debuts, which at this rate, will probably be about a week before the movie opens. ;)

UPDATE: The above-linked trailer has been removed, with the explanation: “This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Twentieth Century Fox because its content was used without permission.” Well, I guess that confirms it was legit! And now it’s available here, for the moment. Shur’tugal explains where it came from:

Shur’tugal fans from Germany recently attended the German Games Convention over in Germany where they were lucky enough to see the Eragon trailer (the same one that was shown to us at Comic-Con in July) being played on TV screens. Acting as any smart Inheritance fan would, they captured the video for all of the fans. Unfortunately, the video doesn’t have audio, but this version is unwatermarked. Big thanks to Norm!