What’s the record for the fastest remake? What is the least amount of time in which film studios have conspired to bring almost exactly the same movie back to the big screen? There was the French comic spy thriller La Totale!, which was remade by James Cameron as True Lies only three years later. And it is arguable that Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II (1987) is just a sillier remake of his own The Evil Dead, from 1981. But generally it takes a couple of decades before Hollywood is ready to hit go on a straight-up rerun of a popular movie.
Why then, are we apparently getting a remake of DreamWorks’ fabulous How to Train Your Dragon only 13 years after the original movie hit multiplexes, and only four after its second sequel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World? Couldn’t DreamWorks just cook up another adventure for Hiccup, Astrid, Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut if audiences are desperate for more loop the looping with Toothless the Night Fury and his airborne, fire-breathing pals?
