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I got to see the original film in a theater again after 14 years, and the experience renewed my skepticism about the remake.
This is clearly Dean DeBlois' franchise. He co-wrote and co-directed and the original film and completed the trilogy as the sole writer-director for both sequels. Now he is writing and directing the remake as well. I love the entire trilogy and therefore can't automatically dismiss this one. it is coming from the sane guy.
However, the original is so good and holds up so well as it is that DeBlois doesn't really seem to have much room to improve by directing it again. Obviously, computer animation has come a long way since 2010. You can see that across the entire trilogy because the animation becomes more sophisticated with each successive film. So it follows that dragons and other elements of the remake that are still going to use CGI will be more sophisticated than they were the last time DeBlois made this movie. That's just the nature of technological advances. But the storytelling in the movie we already have is so strong that I'm really not sure what more needs to be said with the live-action version.
That being said, I understand that Universal's primary goal with the remake is to make money. I expect it will probably succeed in that respect. But I hope DeBlois has a creative reason for wanting to do this and it isn't exclusively about the money for him.
We'll see. Fingers crossed this is good.
This is clearly Dean DeBlois' franchise. He co-wrote and co-directed and the original film and completed the trilogy as the sole writer-director for both sequels. Now he is writing and directing the remake as well. I love the entire trilogy and therefore can't automatically dismiss this one. it is coming from the sane guy.
However, the original is so good and holds up so well as it is that DeBlois doesn't really seem to have much room to improve by directing it again. Obviously, computer animation has come a long way since 2010. You can see that across the entire trilogy because the animation becomes more sophisticated with each successive film. So it follows that dragons and other elements of the remake that are still going to use CGI will be more sophisticated than they were the last time DeBlois made this movie. That's just the nature of technological advances. But the storytelling in the movie we already have is so strong that I'm really not sure what more needs to be said with the live-action version.
That being said, I understand that Universal's primary goal with the remake is to make money. I expect it will probably succeed in that respect. But I hope DeBlois has a creative reason for wanting to do this and it isn't exclusively about the money for him.
We'll see. Fingers crossed this is good.
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