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.”
DeBlois had never made a live-action film, but this was his baby, and of course, he felt protective. Back in 2010, he and Chris Sanders co-wrote and co-directed the fantastical animated feature that would spawn a trilogy. DeBlois pleaded with the studio. “I said, ‘If you’re going to do it, please consider me as the writer and director.’” He went on to tell them, “‘I do know where the
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