How To Milk Your Dragon: Dreamworks Now Wants A Live-Action Version
The original How To Train Your Dragon, released in 2010, is still one of the best films Dreamworks ever created. An actual classic animated story, with rich worldbuilding and memorable characters, somehow came to exist during the peak of this studio’s “hire a bunch of celebrities and make snarky jokes” period. And the cream doesn’t always rise to the top with the moviegoing public, but they actually responded to HTTYD, allowing an endless number of sequels and TV spinoffs to be created.
There is a ridiculous amount of material related to this film at this point. There are multiple TV shows that stretch the timeline all the way to Hiccup’s children and then even further than that into the present day. Dreamworks has milked this dragon dry. There is literally nowhere else to take the current story; they’ve done everything. But they’d have to be really desperate to stretch it out further than that, right–
LIVE-ACTION TIME!
Ugh. Dreamworks’ parent company Universal now wants to start over with a “real” remake of the original film. They’ve made up their minds and even have a definitive release date hammered in: March 14, 2025. Until now only Disney pulled this kind of thing, and they’re not even good at it. The only real good news is that Dean DeBlois, the director of the original trilogy, is returning to direct this picture as well.
Casting for How To Train Your Dragon Yet Again But With Realistic CG Dragons This Time is now underway.
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