How to Train Your Dragon (Live Action)

[rageofthegods]

We all bemoan the lack of original films but this movie is gonna make a billion dollars. It is what it is.

Hopefully this sets Deblois up for a more interesting live action career.

 

[Jake S]

this looks so, so bad.

 

[saint.piss]

Bro...

 

[rageofthegods]

I'm not shocked but I would also like to see the actual quote before I get outraged. "Barely changed the script" sounds like a distortion.

Edit: This quote otoh has an unmistakable aura of sadness (source):

After ‘Dragon 3’ came out in 2019, I spent the next four or five years pitching, selling, and writing original [live action] screenplays,” DeBlois told IndieWire. “Several at Universal. COVID happened, and they weren’t greenlit. And then, all of a sudden, I got a call from Universal saying that they were looking at the library with DreamWorks and considering this idea that we might do a fully realized live-action, big-budget version of ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’

 

[TheUniC6]

Bro...

Pulling a Disney move here...

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

I'm not shocked but I would also like to see the actual quote before I get outraged. "Barely changed the script" sounds like a distortion.

Edit: This quote otoh has an unmistakable aura of sadness (source):

After ‘Dragon 3’ came out in 2019, I spent the next four or five years pitching, selling, and writing original [live action] screenplays,” DeBlois told IndieWire. “Several at Universal. COVID happened, and they weren’t greenlit. And then, all of a sudden, I got a call from Universal saying that they were looking at the library with DreamWorks and considering this idea that we might do a fully realized live-action, big-budget version of ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’

To do some arm-chair psychologizing here, I guess Dean tries and fails to get multiple live-action projects off the ground and gets offered a HTTYD remake as a jumping off point, a movie he feels obligated to make both for professional reasons and to make sure the franchise is stewarded properly (because if he won't make it, someone else will).