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| How to Train Your Dragon 3 pushed back to 2018 | |
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| Topic Started: 23 Jan 2015, 02:24 (10070 Views) | |
| BiggestToothlessFanEVER | 23 Jan 2015, 02:24 Post #11 |
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YEAH JUST SAW THE POST! Read the article here.  http://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-anno ... t-500-jobs |
| Night Fury | 23 Jan 2015, 02:42 Post #12 |
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Seems like a good move, both from a financial and creative standpoint. Releasing three films per year was over-saturating the market, and the quality of those films was suffering. I'd rather see two HTTYD-quality films than just one good film and two like "Turbo". I think we can agree that the main reason HTTYD2 didn't suck was because they took their time to do it properly, even going so far as to design new software for it. Dean is still working on the script for HTTYD3, and June 2017 is less than two and a half years away. It normally takes three years or more to make a quality animated film, so I think 2018 is a better release date. It could still be moved ahead to early 2018, so it might not even be as late as June. I don't think fans will move on, any more than they moved on between the first and second film. You only need to look at Toy Story 3 for proof that fans will come if the product is good. |
| hcsp1 | 23 Jan 2015, 03:26 Post #13 |
My only master is the free wind
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I did. It was a really good movie. I do think that, all things considered, "Croods 2" should have been the one to be pushed back. HTTYD 3 was green-lit before the first Croods even came out, so wouldn't it make more sense pushing Croods 2 back? The fanbase will never move on. We might not talk about it for some time, seeing how the TV show will now end a year before the 3rd movie comes out, but I believe that when the first trailer will be released we will all come back to finish this journey. |
| DarthBacon | 23 Jan 2015, 03:30 Post #14 |
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It was mentioned that Powell was going to take sometime off after HTTYD 2. Maybe that's why HTTYD 3 was moved to 2018, as Dean would have obviously wanted Powell to be back for the third. If that's the reason, then I'm really happy. HTTYD will not really be the same without Powell. |
  
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| Hope_and_Heir | 23 Jan 2015, 03:40 Post #15 |
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B-but. Two. Tv show seasons. And one more book. Isn't. Going. To. Hold. Me. Till. Then. Guess I'll be rereading and re watching things... |
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| Cartoon Freak | 23 Jan 2015, 07:34 Post #16 |
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Clearly, Dreamworks was afraid of competition, specifically from one of the greatest animated franchises of all-time, a franchise whose return to the big screen has been, from a financial perspective, delayed for a bizarrely long amount of time, a franchise whose characters made many an adult feel like a child all over again. I am, of course, referring to this: http://youtu.be/ZcBNxuKZyN4 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4131800/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 Spoiler: click to toggle
In all seriousness, I have two basic thoughts on this matter. In theory, a longer development time gives more time to make the film the best it can be, especially in the story department (regardless of layoffs, DeBlois is presumably not getting fired). On the other hand, the original HTTYD was mostly made in, from my understanding, 12-18 months, as compared to the four-year development time of HTTYD 2. Yeah, based purely on that random sample, DeBlois seems to work better under time pressure. I suppose if I had to take a guess, I would call the original HTTYD the outlier, and say that a longer development time will, all other factors being equal, lead to a better film. But then again, you should know better than to expect optimism from me. |
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| Neilandio | 23 Jan 2015, 11:10 Post #17 |
Dragon trainer
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I'm kind of concerned about this too. HTTYD 2 felt to me like it had too much content that was tried to be putted into one movie. I'm afraid that the longer developing time will lead to HTTYD 3 suffering from the same fate. If only Dreamworks would allow the movie to be 15 min or half an hour longer. |
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| Jill | 23 Jan 2015, 14:31 Post #18 |
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I hope film distribution moves away from theaters to online distribution. Then, hopefully, film makers can make films that last as long as necessary to tell the story instead of adhering to time length set by the theaters. |
| nightfury123 | 23 Jan 2015, 14:33 Post #19 |
My auntie's dog might die...
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Well, HTTYD 2 was roughly fifteen minutes longer than the first one, so hopefully the third film might be half-an-hour longer...? 
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| KentuckyWildcat | 23 Jan 2015, 15:15 Post #20 |
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I don't think anything imposed by theaters was the issue here. Many movies considerably longer than HTTYD 2 have been very successful in theaters. The apparent crunch for running time seems to come from higher up at Dreamworks. I don't know whether that's to limit the animation budget or because they assume kids won't watch anything longer than about 90 minutes (although I strongly suspect the latter), but the bottom line is unfortunately that we're not likely to get a longer HTTYD 3 no matter how it's distributed. As for the delay until 2018, I'm pretty much the same as Cartoon Freak. Theoretically, the longer development time could allow for a more refined story, but I'm not sure it actually will happen that way. |
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