Director talks How to Train Your Dragon 2
Regardless of what happens at the Oscars, How to Train Your Dragon was an amazing film, something we rarely say for DreamWorks, but it’s a fact. Heartfelt, imaginative, it was something I recalled loving about Ray Harryhausen films growing up. THR talked with co-director Dean DeBlois about the sequel:
[On expanding the world]: “We are treating How To Train Your Dragon as the first act in a much larger story. As we head into this one, the world expands. Everything is much bigger with still the heartfelt qualities that made the first one resonate so much with audiences. There are no longer restrictions to this tiny island in the North Sea. They have the entire Northern hemisphere within their grasp.”
[On the trilogy]: “The only way of tracing the story is to draw on elements that were in the first movie and set up elements for a third movie, so it doesn’t feel like a random adventure with the same five or six characters. This truly is a second chapter in a larger story.”
Then producer Bonnie Arnold chimed in: “It’s going to be more fun adventures with Hiccup and Toothless. There will be some new dragons and maybe some new characters. It’s the further adventures of Hiccup on his journey of becoming a man and the ultimate leader of the Viking clan.”
Sounds great, but we gotta wait until 2013. But keep in mind, DreamWorks is developing an animated TV series for 2012.
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