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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Director on the Big Changes Made and the Storylines He Expanded for Live-Action Remake
"How to Train Your Dragon" director Dean DeBlois on changes to animated movie.
When “ How to Train Your Dragon ” director Dean DeBlois received a call from Universal telling him they were considering a live-action reimaging of the animated feature, his first response was “I don’t want to see someone else’s version of this.” I married our Framestore team, led by Christian Manz, our visual effects supervisor, with a longtime friend of mine, Glen McIntosh, who comes from Industrial Light and Magic. I said, “Please talk me out of this if you think it’s a bad idea.” But he came at it with the same angle that I saw it, which was, if we do it with love and respect and acknowledgement for the existing fans, this could feel llike this nostalgic hug to all of those people that have grown up with the How To Train Your Dragon films, but also expand it and open it up for a whole new audience.
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