Director Dean Deblois He is returning to the world of How to train your dragonBut this time, he is exchanging animation with live-action and wants to clarify one thing to fans: this is not just another remake.
Deblois, the director behind the beloved animated trilogy and co-director of Lilo & StitchAdmitted to the envelope: “I myself am not a great fan of the trend of the animation-action.”
“Universal wanted to revisit this story. It’s like “We will do it. Let’s try to do it well. And if you intend to enter this story, which is full of characters I love, in a world I feel tied to, then I want to be part of it.”
He explained: “That first film was made in a hurry, and I am very proud of it, but there are things that we could have done even better”.
Instead of reinventing history, he saw it as an opportunity to perfect and expand on the world he has built. “My attitude was, we don’t throw the baby with the bathroom water. We still had time and money to go a little more deeply with the characters, to enrich the experience, to make the action scenes, the flight, more visceral, more engaging, but make the character’s relationships a little more rich and deep. ”
He is trying to maintain the nostalgia of the original by adding new depths to history and characters. He also knew that snatching too much from the animated version was not the way to go.
Beblois said: “There are people who have embraced the film and feel quite protective.” Instead of a drastic start, he asked himself: what happens if the key moments were reinvented in a new way? One of these changes involved Astrid, starring the new film by Nico Parker.
“He is a character with more weight and depth … you understand where he comes from, what he wants, his attitude towards Hiccup like this privilege person, while she had to climb.
“It comes from one of the many cultures that have united for this purpose of defeating the dragons, therefore it is part of the added mythology.”
To give life to his vision, Deblois turned to trusted collaborators, such as the composer John Powell, who told Deblois: “Our fans grew up with this film. If we do it well, this could be a way to not only feed that nostalgia for them, but give them something they could share with their families now. “
He also brought the filmmaker Roger Deakinswhich had recommended on the original trilogy. But Deakins had moved away from the great effects of effects. Instead, he directed Deblois a Bill Popethe DP behind The matrix, Scott Pilgrim vs. The WorldAND Army of Darkness.
“It is just one of those filmmakers who is so concentrated on history, on the character and in the actors who offer truthful shows,” said Deblois. Pope’s “story-session” was invaluable.
“He can read the script. It can look at the actor’s auditions. It can look at a performance blocked the day and talk about what works and what seems false. And I really appreciated this, you know, being someone who enters us like a beginner. “
The film is shot open for IMAX, allowing the screen to expand for the moments of Key Dragon. The director explained: “They are practically all the scenes with the dragons: if they are training or flying or anything, which has a sense of grandeur and action”.
One of the major challenges was to give life to the teeth. “We knew we wanted to retain that character and that personality, and we would be judged quite heavily if we went too far from it,” Deblois admitted.
But making the transition from an animated design to a realistic creature was not a small business. “How do you take those proportions of cartoon and make them in a creature that seems to be going through the jungle Jurassic Park And it seems that it belongs? “
In understanding this, artist of visual effects John Dykstra He said to Deblois that he thinks animation without teeth as an exaggeration of the live-action version. Deblois said.: “It was a really beautiful mentality in which it was a question of planning all the dragons”.
Deblois is reinventing How to train your dragon With the tools he had never had before. If everything goes according to the plans, fans will be able to experience the story they love in a completely new way without losing the magic that has made it special in the first place.
By Joey Gour
Source: Geek Tyrant
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