Nearly 15 years ago, DreamWorks AnimationsHow To Train Your Dragonsoared into theaters.
However, Hollywood quickly learned this wasnt another middling entry into the DreamWorks catalog.
There will even be a branch of Universal Studios Epic Universe theme park launching this summer.
So in retrospect,How To Train Your Dragonwas an obvious candidate to receive the live-action treatment.
Iconography gets butts in seats.
However, DreamWorks must avoid playing ittoosafe, or theyll trigger the gambit of having anotherThe Lion King.
It would seem that writer and director Dean DeBlois is acutely aware of this risk too.
But hopefully the creators can take many different avenues to differentiate the 2025 remake from the 2010 original.
In other words, hopefully they get closer toThe Jungle BookthanThe Lion King.
How to Train Your Dragon is out in theaters on June 13.
