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As it readies the upcoming sequel to its CG-animated hit How To Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation has signed a deal with Cartoon Network for a How To Train Your Dragon weekly series, which will launch in both the U.S. and internationally in 2012. The original movie, an adventure-comedy about a young Viking and his unlikely friendship with a dragon was released in the spring and has grossed nearly $500 million at the worldwide box office. Its sequel is also targeted for 2012. DreamWorks has been actively exploiting its animated films for television. Madagascar‘s offshoot, The Penguins of Madagascar, runs on Nickelodeon, which also is developing a series based on the movie Kung Fu Panda. The company also has been producing a series of Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda TV specials for ABC and NBC.
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When I first get a glimpse of that title, I still keep thinking it states How to Drain Your Dragon.
me too. when ever i say How To Train Your Dragon fast, i might aceidently say How To Drain Your Dragon.
Terrific news!
The movie was truly a gem; it had a great story with rich characters. I hope the sequal — and the series — will sustain that quality.
Absolutely! Definitely the BEST animated film of 2010, much better than that over-hyped, irritating toy film.
Judging by Dreamworks’ track record with sequels, this will be blood-letting and this promising movie is going to take a severe nosedive in quality. How about greenlighting a sequel when you actually have a viable story to tell instead of seeing the big box office it made opening weekend.
It’s fine to be pessimistic when appropriate, I’m sorry, your pessimism is based on misinformation. “Dragons” did not have a “big box office on opening weekend.” Quite the opposite. It was actually a disappointment its opening weekend, but steadily and surprisingly built on word of mouth because it was a powerful story told well. So why make the same mistake again by assuming this is also going to be bad? How about giving the sequel and tv spinoff the same benefit of the doubt when they’re being headed up by the same creative team?
Also, your comment about “judging by Dreamworks’ track record with sequels, this will be a blood-letting” is also misinformed. Dreamworks’ sequels do BETTER than their first movie. Shrek 1: 484k, Shrek 2: 919k. Madagascar 1: 532k, Madagascar 2: 603k. Whether or not YOU enjoy them, it can’t be argued that the PUBLIC doesn’t.
Quality movies made by great filmmakers that moviegoers actually enjoy = good thing, not bad.
I think he’s referring to how the trend of how dreamworks sequels seem to decrease in quality from from film to film, and NOT box office.
Shrek 1 was great, Shrek 2 was superb, but it all went down the toilet afterwards. The people clearly made their voices heard when Shrek 4 opened 30mil or so below projections even with the 3D surcharge and couldn’t even outgross Shrek 1 in the end. Madagascar sequels were ok but nothing special. Overall, there’s nothing wrong with what they are doing. They are churning out money-making sequels, but none of their sequels (save for probably Shrek 2) are being mentioned as classics.
I think the post is referring to how most DWA sequels tend to diminish and quality to its predecessors instead of box office. Judging by the precipitous fall of Shrek after the first 2 films, and the fun but nothing groundbreaking nature of the Madagascar sequels, I tend to agree.
Sorry, it’s not.
Agreed completely.
HTTYD was great, but not the best animated film of the year. It just had the misfortune of being released in the same year as an instant classic.
Instant classic more like rehash of a classic movie.
My kids will definitely love this great news! They are able to watch their favorite movie on cartoon network weekly, nice story anybody will love.
just give Dreamworks a chance you idiots ok the other movies were no origonaly books unlike HTTYD which is why they have a better foundation they can base the movies off of the books and do what they want with the script the Tv show will be SPECTACULAR and i will set it up to record the SECOND it is finally released.
Having read the books (although I will admit that it has been a few years since), I can tell you that there’s virtually no relation between the books and the movie. Astrid didn’t even exist in the written series, and the character that is probably her basis only showed up in the second or third novel. In the books, vikings were had already been allied with dragons for years, and the main issue was that Hiccup was a crappy chieftain’s son who could only train a (literally) toothless Garden Dragon (about the size of a flying cat and about as dangerous). He was also completely bum in a fight (one of the few things that carried over), but that was only because he was left handed (once he figured that out, he became a regular prodigy). I don’t see them really exploring the world of the books, since they’ve deviated from it so much already, with the exception of Sea Dragons, who might be the driving conflict of the next movie.
That being all completely true, Sanders and his partner decided to turn this into an origin story, rather than follow the books very strictly. The books can still be a major soarce of inspiration, and while they decided to skivvy away from profecy and magic, which the books are full of, there is still a lot of dragon wealth and imagination to utilise there. And pirates. One must not forget the pirates.