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The book of How to Train Your Dragon is about to shut, definitively, as the creators of DreamWorks' pop animation franchise are showtime to unveil their road to the cease.
With the March 2019 release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the studio will say farewell to its flagship fantasy trilogy, which director Dean DeBlois has helmed and penned since the start film in 2010. Based on Cressida Cowell's series of children's books, the franchise follows the adventures of a young Viking pacifist named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) equally he overturns the tenuous relationship between humans and dragons, ignited by the unexpected bail he forges with his own dragon conquest-turned-companion, Toothless.
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The billion-dollar franchise's first installment scored two Oscar nominations, hauled in $494 million worldwide, and spawned a host of popular Netflix tv set and merchandise spin-offs. The Oscar-nominated sequel, released in 2014, added some other $600 million to the franchise'southward theatrical pull and won the Golden Globe for All-time Animated Feature. Just arguably the series' greatest achievement has been its casual bucking of children's fantasy tropes over its installments. Building up a veritable dangerous Viking world loaded with equally much earliest mythos as a George R.R. Martin novella, HTTYD diverges from some of its animated competitors by exploring vast increases of time between entries, creating a sentimental city with a lush accumulated history and characters with an emotional fullness that just comes from showing stories across a generation.
Which is why DeBlois and veteran animation producer Brad Lewis say fans should prepare for emotions to run loftier in the series' impending finale (specially if, like it does to certain EW movie writers, John Powell'southward score alone still unleashes waterworks).
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"We thought about it for a long time and came up with what we recollect is a bloodshot way to say goodbye to these characters, but the correct manner," says DeBlois, who also co-wrote and directed Lilo & Stitch with former HTTYD collaborator Chris Sanders. Subconscious Globe non only marks the terminate of Hiccup'southward trilogy just, to DeBlois' knowledge, likewise the end of its television spin-offs. The author-director likens the finale to the way Cowell signed off her book series when she concluded it in 2015: "You will sympathise why Hiccup says, as you heard in the trailer, 'There were dragons when I was a male child.' And by the end of this flick, you lot'll have answered the question of what could have happened to them."
It's sure to be among the dozens of questions fans will take, every bit details are kickoff to emerge about what'south at stake for Hiccup, Toothless, Astrid (America Ferrera), and the hamlet of Berk in How to Train Your Dragon 3. The filmmakers will close out the Toronto International Moving picture Festival with special teases — of the plot, of the new applied science that volition push the movie into uncharted territory, and of the emotional gut-dial that awaits fans at the journey's end. But while Toronto will enjoy its gifts alive, EW can exclusively reveal more details right now nigh what'southward ahead in Hidden World.
Offset: Despite his tragic end in the second film, Gerard Butler'due south Stoick the Vast will render. This movie plays with time more than its predecessors, utilizing flash-frontward as well as flashbacks, and in doing then, brings Stoick back to assist guide Hiccup in his chiefly responsibility as protector of Berk. One early but pivotal scene finds Hiccup recalling his (unfathomably adorable) toddler self get-go hearing Stoick's tale about a clandestine home of dragons hidden backside a great waterfall somewhere at the edge of the earth. Stoick's dream was to seal information technology off and stop the fighting between humans and dragons. Hiccup, however, sees the utopia as a potential new dwelling where the people (and pets) of Berk can safely relocate; he's proudly, if inadvertently, turned Berk into a bustling Viking metropolis of human-dragon cooperation, merely with each dragon Hiccup rescues from trappers, he increases the target on Berk'southward back to a less tolerant outside world. (Enter: Grimmel, a terrifying new villain, voiced by F. Murray Abraham, "who is the voice of intolerance and answers the question why Toothless is the terminal of his kind," says DeBlois. Also, he kind of looks like Ted Danson, but that's neither here nor at that place.)
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Even if son withal does not follow father, Stoick'due south inclusion "offers a warm hug to the character one final time," says DeBlois, calculation that the final bye echoes one of the key messages repeated throughout the flick. "The overall theme of the story is letting go, or finding the wisdom to allow get, rather," he says. Information technology applies to the non-homo characters, as well. "So much of Hiccup's identity, equally a leader and an developed, is considering of his human relationship with Toothless. But if Toothless is not there, who is Hiccup?"
Hiccup WITHOUT Toothless? Information technology's possible, if only considering the second major storyline in the motion-picture show — teased to the internet in the June trailer — presents Toothless with an intriguing new companion: an attracting female dragon known as Light Fury. She starting time meets Toothless on the outskirts of Berk, and afterward pays him a visit while demonstrating her unique ability to heat her scales into a mirrorlike, essentially invisible surface.
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The filmmakers designed Toothless and Low-cal Fury's courtship ballet equally one of several fundamental dialogue-costless scenes in the movie. Their moonlit reptilian pas de deux (affectionally dubbed "First Engagement") serves equally a spiritual successor to the outset film'south "Forbidden Friendship" sequence; it may even remind crowds of the indelible music-driven moments of films past like Dense and Lady and the Tramp. The courtship has inherent one-act in Toothless' attempts to print Light Fury, only Lewis promises a greater reason for the romance. "What we're seeing in this story is Toothless learning to trust his own instincts," says Lewis, who produces alongside Bonnie Arnold. "It'due south not just a B-story. This is a potential agent of modify that forces Hiccup to consider what sort of leader he wants to be, or fifty-fifty tin be, without Toothless."
Finally, TIFF audiences will be among the first to take in the splendor that is the Hidden World — a mythical dragon den that, spoiler warning, doesn't stay hidden for long (c'mon, information technology's in the title). DeBlois and Lewis can't help but axle when they testify off the bioluminescent marvel, inspired past a vivid dream DeBlois had but rooted in some semblance of the science of ancient undersea caves. And every bit far as expansive terrestrial caverns get, the first movie's Red Decease nest and the second'southward Alpha water ice abode don't hold a phosphorescent candle to the hidden world.
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You lot can go a taste of the cosmically incandescent ready piece in the movie's trailer, but witnessed on the big screen, the grand scope of the hidden world suggests something of a plumbing equipment culmination for the studio. The franchise's final fantastical reveal, in a series bursting with them, marks the technological pinnacle of the How to Train Your Dragon squad'south achievements over the course of a decade. And by no pocket-size blow, what could exist DreamWorks' height of artistic imagination also sets the scene for the emotional last human action of a boy and his dragon whose journey was every bit every bit exquisite.
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How to Train Your Dragon 3 Baby Light Fury
Source: https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/14/how-train-your-dragon-3/