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For the hit live-action remake, Powell had the unique task of revisiting his own work, composed more than 15 years earlier.
To mark fifteen years since the premiere of “How to Train Your Dragon,” the New Jersey Symphony accompanied the original, ...
John Powell, the composer behind Universal’s new live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon and Wicked, was wearing an ill-fitting gas mask awkwardly over his glasses, not keeping the smoke ...
“I think it was the moment that I had the conversation with John Powell,” DeBlois told Polygon in an exclusive interview tied to the new movie’s digital home release. Powell composed the music for the ...
How To Train Your Dragon includes several noticeable changes from the original film, but a few smaller changes may have been ...
"How To Train Your Dragon" writer and director Dean DeBlois says he feels both relief and pressure embarking on its sequel ...
John Powell Returns to the Charts. John Powell scored How to Train Your Dragon – both the live-action reworking and the original – and this week, he earns a new hit on the charts in the U.K ...
The How to Train Your Dragonmovies ranked show how great the trilogy is, and how the live-action remake compares. Under the assured direction of Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the How to Train Your ...
Director Dean DeBlois recreates "The Forbidden Friendship" and "Test Drive" sequences with a new and improved Toothless.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, John Powell revealed that he was working on the music for ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’ However, during the initial warnings, Powell paid no ...
The leap from computer animation to 'live action' is safer than the trial-and-error update strategy Disney’s been trying with its hand-drawn classics.