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This early, "How To Train Your Dragon 3" is already in the works. Reports suggest that the movie will be shown in 2016.
Read on Jay Baruchel's interview in Empire Online about the sequel, and some details about the third movie.
Would it be fair to say you stumbled into this? You signed on for one thing and it evolved into this epic...
(Laughs) No, it's pretty awesome. I am very, very aware of that fact. I'm so absolutely psyched. To be honest, if you want to get real macro about it, every gig is something of a crapshoot. Some you have a better idea of what it could be going in, others you're just winging it. The chances of any movie succeeding are about the same in my experience. Although by "succeeding" I don't necessarily mean financially, I just mean them being... good. But yeah, I signed up for something that I thought would be kind of fun, something I hadn't done before, and I ended up getting to be a part of this pretty massive flick that means a great deal to a lot of people.
In the very beginning, I would never have imagined that it could be somebody's favourite movie. That's not to say that I thought it would be bad. It's just... that kind of impact just wasn't even a possibility, and then it came out, and went off like an atom bomb.
Okay, well, not the first weekend but the second weekend it caught fire, and everybody started to connect to it. Then I had this wonderful realisation about movies that I dug when I was a kid... that experience is like nothing I like I have now. When you're into something when you're a child you just love it - you connect to it in such a pure, impactful way. And what you're really passionate about when you're little, it often steers you towards what'll eventually be your life, your career. When I saw the way that How To Train Your Dragon connected with people, it blew me away. I had a small hand in making something that a lot of kids would dig and mean something to them... All this to say, I'm a lucky motherfucker.
Once the first film was a success and the franchise evolved into a trilogy, how did Dean expand upon this original pitch?
We had talked, years before the first one even came out, because there's a whole bunch of books. I think the series goes on for a bit. There was always talk that there was more of this world and Hiccup's life to be explored. But when he first starting telling me about How To Train Your Dragon 2, it was clear that - and being a filmmaker myself I knew this already, and I need to put this in quotations - the sequel would be "the darkest" one of the series. And when I say "the darkest", there are no decapitations, or necrophilia, there's nothing fucking awful. No-one's mouths are being sewn to strangers' anuses. But, all the same, it's the second act, and so it's a bit more complicated.
It's just that the answers aren't as easy, and we have to amp everything up. So, in every way that the first one succeeded, the second one has to succeed more. The basement of this one has to be as good as the first one, ideally better. The best thing about the first movie was that it's fun, it's really charming and incredibly compelling, but also unexpectedly heavy at parts. And so all those same things are the essence of the second one, but amped up. The stakes are higher. We knew that we were doing our Empire Strikes Back.
Have you been given notes on what might happen in the third film?
Yeah, sort of. It's an ongoing conversation over the better part of the last six years. I have inklings, I kinda know where it's meant to go. I know where the books end up, I know some of the mile markers, I know what the end results will be. How we go about getting there though, that's all the fun part to look forward to, once Dean is done creating.
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