How to Train Your Dragon director Dean DeBlois has revealed that he used the 2010 animated movie as a "test screening" for the new live-action remake in order to improve on its mistakes.
"That first movie was made in a rush, and I’m super proud of it, but there are things that we could have done even better. My attitude was, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater," DeBlois, who co-directed the animated version and is back at the helm for the new remake, told The Wrap, adding that the team decided to treat the animated movie as "our latest test screening."
