![]() ![]() Fortunately, Dean DeBlois has precedent to work with. It’s a tough balance, coming up with a conclusion that gets rid of the dragons, whilst satisfying fans of a series which is all about the awesome wonder of dragons. How do you separate a duo that people, certainly the fans of the franchise, have come to love together? And do it in a way that leaves the audience not feeling cheated, but rather on board with how it all comes to be.” “I like that as a narrative conceit, and the idea that this story of Hiccup and Toothless, and all of the dragons that came with that relationship, should reach a finite and satisfying end has been the great ambition. It’s essentially our world, a fanciful retelling of our history, but it supposes that there was a time of dragons and here are, in 2018, and there are no dragons around. “One of the things that I liked about our approach to the material, which differs from the books actually, is that our dragons don’t speak. “Details change, as they always do, and it gets refined over time, but the ambition to try to set up a story that would carry forward and answer questions that had not been answered in in the first installment or the second, and would reach a satisfying culmination, was always the intent and that’s remained rock solid throughout the making of all three films,” DeBlois continued.Īnd again, one of the questions that still needs to be answered is. It’s a map that hasn’t changed much since he originally plotted his course. And they bought into it so, I’m sticking with that and trying to make sure that each installment is some sort of crossroads that Hiccup encounters is part one overall world, that takes him towards his destiny.” “So when I was asked to come up with an idea for a sequel to the first film, I pitched the idea of a trilogy that would map three acts of one story, and would follow Hiccup from a ne’er-do kid, to the wise viking chief of his tribe. “I mean, honestly that was my fear going into any sequel, is that they can trail on forever and kind of lack narrative purpose,” DeBlois said. ![]() We spoke to Dean DeBlois on the phone, where he explained that he never wanted this series to go on forever, like some animated franchises. ![]()
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