How to Train Your Dragon 2
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| Based on | How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell |
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| Music by | John Powell |
| Studio | DreamWorks Animation |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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| Running time | 105 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
How to Train Your Dragon 2 is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated action fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. It is the sequel to the 2010 computer-animated film How to Train Your Dragon and the second in the trilogy.[2] The film is being written and directed by Dean DeBlois, and stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill,Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig with the addition of Kit Harrington, Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou. The film is scheduled to be released on June 13, 2014.
The film will take place five years after the first film, featuring Hiccup and his friends as young adults.[2] DeBlois revealed in an interview about the story: "At the end of last film, all these Vikings who were previously somewhat landlocked are now on the backs of dragons so the entire Northern Hemisphere opens up to them. And with that Hiccup's curiosity increases, the map expands and inevitably they are going to come across new dragons, new cultures."[3] Hiccup then "discovers a larger conflict brewing between humans and dragons and he finds himself at the center of it".[2]
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
After the success of the first film, the sequel was announced on April 27, 2010.[11][12] "How to Train Your Dragon ... has become DreamWorks Animation's next franchise. We plan to release the sequel theatrically in 2013," said Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation's CEO.[12] It was later revealed that DeBlois had started drafting the outline for a sequel in February 2010 at Skywalker Ranch, during the final sound mix of the first film.[13]:10 The film was originally scheduled for release on June 20, 2014,[14] but in August 2013 the release date was moved forward one week to June 13, 2014.[15]
The film is being written, directed, and executive produced by Dean DeBlois, the co-writer/co-director of the first film.[14] Bonnie Arnold, the producer of the first film, is also returning, with Chris Sanders, who co-directed and co-wrote the first film, acting only as an additional executive producer this time due to his involvement with The Croods.[16] When offered the sequel, DeBlois accepted it on condition he can turn it into a trilogy. For the sequel, he intends to revisit the films of his youth, with The Empire Strikes Back and My Neighbor Totoro[17]having the pivotal inspirations for the film.[18] "What I loved especially about Empire is that it expanded Star Wars in every direction: emotionally, its scope, characters, fun. It felt like an embellishment and that's the goal."[19]
It was announced that the entire original voice cast – Baruchel, Butler, Ferguson, Ferrera, Hill, Mintz-Plasse, Miller and Wiig – would return for the sequel.[20] On June 19, 2012, it was announced that Kit Harington, of Game of Thrones fame, was cast as the film's antagonist.[10]At the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, it was announced that Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou have joined the cast, lending their voices to Valka and Drago Bludvist, respectively.[21]
While the first film was set in a generic North Sea environment, the creative team decided to focus on Norway this time around. Early in the sequel's development, about a dozen of them traveled there for a week-long research trip, where they toured Oslo, Bergen, and the fjords.[13]:12-13 DeBlois, together with Gregg Taylor (DreamWorks' head of feature development) and Roger Deakins (a cinematographer who served as visual consultant), then broke off from the group to visit Svalbard and see polar bears in the wild with the assistance of armed guides.[13]:12-16
DeBlois explained that he had learned from directing Lilo and Stitch (2002) that "if you set an animated film in a place you want to visit, there's a chance you might get to go there."[13]:14 He had wanted to visit Svalbard for quite some time, after learning of its stark beauty from a couple of backpackers he met during earlier visits to Iceland to work with post-rock band Sigur Rós.[13]:14
Animation[edit]
In the years before the film's release, DreamWorks Animation had substantially over-hauled its production workflow and animation software. How to Train Your Dragon 2 will be the first DreamWorks Animation film that will utilize "scalable multi-core processing", developed together with Hewlett-Packard. Called by Katzenberg as "the next revolution in filmmaking," it will enable artists for the first time to work on rich complex images in real time, instead of waiting eight hours to see the results next day.[23] The film will also be the studio's first film to use its new animation and lighting software through the entire production. Programs, named Premo[24] and Torch, will allow much more subtlety, improving facial animation and enabling "the sense of fat, jiggle, loose skin, the sensation of skin moving over muscle instead of masses moving together."[2]
By the time production was complete, over 500 people had worked on the film at DreamWorks Animation's headquarters in Glendale as well as its branch offices at PDI/DreamWorks in Redwood City and DreamWorks India in Bangalore.[13]:158-159
Music[edit]
Composer John Powell, who had earned an Academy Award nomination for the first score, will also return for the second and third film.[25]Sigur Rós lead vocalist Jón Þór Birgisson will contribute three compositions to the soundtrack, including direct collaborations with Powell.[21]
Release[edit]
The film will be screened out of competition on May 20, 2014 at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[26] It will be digitally remastered into IMAX 3D and released to the international theaters on June 13, 2014.[27]
Video game[edit]
A video game based on the film, titled How to Train Your Dragon 2, will be released in June 2014 by Little Orbit.[28] Developed by Torus Games, the game will be available for Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Wii U and PlayStation 3.[28] It will allow players to choose various riders and dragons, and enter a dragon flight school, participating in trainings, challenges and tournaments.[28]
Sequel[edit]
Main article: How to Train Your Dragon 3
A sequel, the third film in the trilogy,[2] titled How to Train Your Dragon 3, will be released on June 17, 2016.[29] Dean DeBlois, the co-director of the first and director of the second film, will return, along with producer Bonnie Arnold, and all the main cast.[30]
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