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Nov 20, 2019 · ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ Director Dean DeBlois On His “Decade Of Working With Dragons” & Delivering Satisfying End To Trilogy With ‘The Hidden World’
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Feb 20, 2019 · “How to Train Your Dragon” director Dean DeBlois grew up wanting to be a comic-book artist. After meandering his way through fine-arts classes at Sheridan College for a year, however, he...
Feb 15, 2023 · Taking a massive swing, Universal Pictures has put in motion a How to Train Your Dragon live-action movie, with Dean DeBlois, the filmmaker behind the original animated trilogy, back in the...
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Dean DeBlois is a Canadian Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. He is the writer and director of How to Train Your Dragon 2 and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. He also co-wrote and co-directed the original How to Train Your Dragon film along with Chris Sanders.
Dean DeBlois was born in the small town of Aylmer, Quebec, Canada on June 7, 1970 - ironically about an hour and a half from Jay Baruchel's home town. When he was young, he took a strong interest in comic books, which would later help him with his drawing ability. Growing up, Dean was a bit of a loner due to his interest in comics as well as his homosexuality. This allowed him to identify with his character Hiccup, as both were on the outskirts of their respective societies as boys.
In to adulthood, Dean realized that a career in the continuously growing animation industry offered many tantalizing avenues to express his creativity. He worked his way through college at Hinton Animation Studios in Ottawa, Canada while attending Sheridan College in the Classical Animation Program. Out of college, Dean moved to Ireland to work at Sullivan Bluth Studios in Dublin, Ireland, working as a storyboard assistant, layout artist, and character designer on such films as A Troll in Central Park and Thumbelina.
Four years later, Dean accepted a job at Walt Disney Feature Animation in California as a storyboard artist on Mulan. The change in scenery was a surprise for Dean, as the community in Burbank was diverse and accepting. At Disney, Dean also co-created the popular film Lilo & Stitch with friend and colleague Chris Sanders. An anecdote Dean recalls well is that his other colleagues knew one of the creative pair was gay, and assumed it was Chris Sanders.
In October 2008, he shifted to working as co-writer and co-director of How to Train Your Dragon with Chris Sanders, which was experiencing major production problems. He re-wrote the script and produced the film less than two years later to much acclaim. While working on the first film, Dean was already envisioning a trilogy, with the end result paralleling the final book in the original How to Train Your Dragon Book series - Dragons leaving the humans behind.
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Jun 11, 2018 · In our Dean Deblois interview, we speak with the mastermind behind the How to Train Your Dragon series about what to expect from the new movie.
Jan 30, 2020 · We speak to director Dean DeBlois and head of character animation Simon Otto about the Oscar-nominated "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World."
Nov 5, 2014 · Director Dean DeBlois talks about How to Train Your Dragon 2 and 3, major story changes during production, John Powell's score, and more.
