A favorite TV show being picked up to be adapted into a life-full landscape is no doubt a feeling that cannot be compared. But with the passing of time, things, and people, and trends have started to change. Preserving the originality of the things that are loved by one as a child, becomes the more important thing, newer editions, reprises, all seem like wishy washy extravaganza. But, it would still be watched. It cannot not be, especially if said live action spin constitutes How To Train Your Dragon
.
With recent live action remakes having garnered much brouhaha owing to sometimes the fresh, more ‘woke’ perspectives that fans accuse them of brimming with or simply bad casting, the brains behind How To Train Your Dragon’
s live action adaptation makes a domino dropping confession about his movie.
How To Train Your Dragon’: another side, different coin, same pocket.
For the same reason of preservation and for the love of something one creates themselves, Dean DeBlois did not hesitate when given the opportunity to return to How to Train Your Dragon,
this time as a live-action adaptation. As the creator of the Annie Award-winning animated film, he had spent years toiling to get a pass on his stories, even for original live-action projects. Yet, in the end, it was this that he found himself coming back to. “I kind of put my own convictions to the test
,” he admitted, acknowledging that the decision to make a live action made him feel like a “hypocrite,
” during a Universal event with CinemaBlend.
Dean DeBlois says he felt like a hypocrite making the live-action ‘HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON’ because “live-action remakes are often disappointing replacements of the animated movie”
“But then I also thought, I don’t wanna watch someone else do it… so if they’re gonna do it, I… pic.twitter.com/hXF5NzesC6
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 22, 2025
Explaining his mindless grab at the offer he had received from Universal, one of their very firsts of the kind
, how it might have been hypocritical of him to to do so despite his slight aversion to the “disappointment”
he believes live-action adaptations pose for, “But then I also thought, i do no want to watch someone else do it.”
he expressed, taking into consideration the guarantee of some degree of success, and the homecoming it would mean to work with a familiar crew.
While on the topic of live-action adaptations, there are several other additions to film-franchises that could make, or break the existing image of the film, be it an animation to live-action, or a stage to film adaptation. Things that could either elevate the experience of something the audience holds dear, or into something that could be mildly despised, to say the least.
One world, in a hundred different lights.
Similar to the world of live-action adaptations, are film adaptations of plays had been all the rave. And with time, these even turned into movies being extended into series. With dimensions upon dimensions to a world, it only gets move complex, more nuance, and more excitement as one spots with delight, all the beloved details that have turned into hypothetical-realities. With Watchmen;
series
adaptation of Zack Snyder’s 2009 movie of the same name, Snowpiercer, Hannibal
, that add incredible depth to the movies they have been used to expand to.
Toothless in the live-action remake of ‘HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON’ versus the original animation. pic.twitter.com/5d4W7ry8mn
— Pop Base (@PopBase) November 19, 2024
While the audience waits for the release of the How To Train Your Dragon
live-action they never could have thought they would get, it only makes room for greater possibilities and even competition to the industry, as they sit with bated breath, on the edges of their set, both with wariness of details missed in haste and awe of how their favorite world has come to a flourish.
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