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Team Deakins

CHAPTER

How to Train Your Dragon

Dean Obeidallah: I just have a general allergy to sequels because they feel like cash grabs and so I said well there are unanswered questions within the story. Why don't we craft a trilogy? A true three-part story, three acts of one coming of age and hiccup will go from this inept character that no one believes into a Viking chief by the end of it who's wise enough to cut the ties with the dragon that got him there. And then they did do a television series right? Yes. Were you involved in that at all? I met with the show runners occasionally we'd tell me what they were working on and I would tell them what I was doing

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