There is a new live action remake of the animated 2010 How to Train Your Dragon which came to theaters June 13.
Trailer:
High Rotten Tomatoes ratings: 98% from the general public, 77% from reviewers.
[I won’t watch it until it comes to streaming]
I think it’s very cool that they got Gerard Butler to play Stoick. He was the voice of Stoick in the movies!
I’m a little disappointed that they didn’t get Craig Ferguson or David Tennant to reprise their roles..
The Universal live-action adaptation of the beloved animated franchise soared to a strong $83.7 million debut in North American theaters, according to Comscore estimates Sunday. The reboot easily outpaced 2019’s “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” which opened with $55 million. The latest film earned more than $114.1 million internationally, bringing the global total to $197.8 million.
But no one here has seen it?
Is it the exact same script/plot as the animated movie, just live action (with necessary CGI) this time?
No. The director discusses the changes:
You mentioned expanding the story. How did you explore those moments through your storytelling?
This version allowed us to go a little bit more nuanced with the performances. And I thought the father son relationship could benefit from knowing a little bit about a little bit more about Stoick’s (Gerard Butler) plight, seeing him as sort of a very public politician, in a sense, trying to keep his dispirited group together and motivated, remotivating them one more time to follow the objective and try to find the dragon’s nest after they’d been defeated yet again in a nighttime raid…
You talked about expanding the world, but there are also some scenes that you cut. Is there a scene that had to go because it didn’t work in live-action?
The scenes we cut were actually filmed. When Hiccup and Toothless are resting after the midpoint scene of what we call the “Test drive,” and they look to the sky together, they’re accosted by little terrors that try to steal their fish. Hiccup observes that dragons are not so fireproof. In the film, it felt like it was dragging the pace down, and it was delivering information that we were already getting… Similarly, another scene that we trimmed was a moment when Astrid nearly catches Hiccup red-handed. He’s snuck Toothless into the blacksmith stall, and it’s the middle of the night. Astrid finds him there, and he’s trying to cover up and dissuade her from investigating any further…
I saw it and really liked it! Disney should take some notes on how to make a good live action remake.
I can’t be the only person who has an issue with a live action remake of a 15 year old movie?
The one review I hear of it said it worked just fine but the added length didn’t do anything for it. He said it could have easily been cut down 30 minutes which would put it at the same length as the original.