#Dean DuBlois

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John Powell’s coming back for the soundtrack, so... there’s that!

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What Are You Doing in My Timeline?

This is an alternate timeline I made where Chris Farley lived long enough to finish recording all of his lines for Shrek. What follows is a strange timeline. It was really fun imagining these movies because many of them actually happened.

The story starts in 1997. On December 18, 1997, Chris Farley’s brother John invites him over (so that night Chris doesn’t have the speeball that killed him). He completes the audio for a new animated movie called Shrek directed by Vicky Jensen and Adam Adamson a week later. On January 10, 1998, he’s found dead on the streets of Chicago from an overdose. His last movie Shrek, is released in April 2000 ahead of Disney’s film Dinosaur. It does fine, but not fine enough. 

December 18, 1997-Chris Farely stays with his brother John.

January 10, 1998-Chris Farely dies of a drug overdose.

2000

-Shrek starring Chris Farely, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz is released before Disney’s Dinosaur. It earns $123 million on a $54 million budget. People criticize it for taking advantage of Farley’s recent death, and the animation looks too scary for children. The film will ultimately find a second life online, in the same vein as Disney’s Treasure Planet (Never becoming the meme material that it should’ve been). Chicken Run grosses more, barely keeping the company afloat. 

-Disney releases Dinosaur and The Emperor’s New Groove to half-decent turnout. 

2001

-Mike Myers appears in Dieter’s Day, a comedy film directed by Bo Welch which performs modestly and helps keep SNL films alive for the next few years. 

-Disney releases Atlantis, to good reception. 

-Pixar releases Monster’s Inc, to great success. 

-Dreamworks fails to make much from El Dorado. 

2002

-Pixar releases its first fairy tale film, Tam Lin, directed by Brenda Chapman. It is awarded the Oscar for best Animated film. Tam Lin becomes enshrined in the Disney hero category similar to Peter Pan and Aladdin. At the 2003 Academy Awards, a rambling John Lasseter accepts the award for Tam Lin. He says, “Eisner told me this was the year of Stitch. This time it’s the year of Lin.”

-Disney releases Lilo and Stitch and Treasure Planet. However bad blood between John Lasseter and Chris Sanders/Dean Dublois (exacerbated by the Oscar speech) results in the two leaving the company. 

-Dreamworks releases Spirit of a Horse with Ben Affleck as the film’s narrator. It performs poorly. 

-Blue Sky releases Ice Age, to great success. It’s directed by Don Bluth who managed to finally work with CGI. 

2003

-Tim Allen stars in Universal’s Adaptation of The Cat in the Hat. It becomes another modest hit for Imagine Entertainment after The Grinch. And they greenlight plans for a rock musical adaptation of The Lorax starring Jack Black to be released on Earth Day 2005. 

-Disney releases Great Bear with Johnny Depp as the titular Kenai. 

-Pixar releases Finding Nemo. William H. Macey’s performance as Marlin has the critics applauding. 

-Dreamworks folds after the failure of Sinbad (an untitled undersea remake of Mean Streets with Chris Rock and Robert de Niro halt production, and footage of it becomes a holy grail of lost media sleuths in the late 2010s). Katzenburg decides it’s time for him to enter into the internet age, and takes a position back at Sony while working on a video-downloading platform called Quiki. Dreamworks assets are sold to Paramount, and many of the old directors and writers of the company go onto work for Nickelodeon. Films like Nome (an adaptation of the books by Terry Pratchett) and Escape from Manhattan (about a Lion, Hippo, Okapi, and a Giraffe escaping the zoo only to wind up in New Jersey) are put into production. With the dissolution of Dreamworks, Aardman then gains a contract with 20th Century Fox, with their next five films being released alongside Blue Sky. 

2004

-Disney releases Cows Gone Wild with Rosie O’donnel, and it does modestly. 

-Pixar releases The Supers. Blake Snyder, writer of the screenplay Nuclear Family sues Pixar and receives a portion of the film’s profits. 

-Mike Myers stars as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther.

-Wallace and Gromit: The Great Vegetable Plot by Aardman and Blue Sky is released to critical acclaim. 

-Nickelodeon releases The Spongebob Squarepants Movie to great success. 

2005

-Disney releases Mark Dindal’s The Ugly Duckling to mixed reviews. Joan Cusack earns praise for her performance as said Duckling facing obstacles in a summer camp. 

-Blue Sky releases Robots to great success. 

-Disney doesn’t renew Pixar’s contract due to bad blood between John Lasseter and Bob Iger, as well as diminishing returns. In the media storm rumors arise about Lasseter and possible sexual harassment (in our timeline he was let go because of this). He is ousted from the company and his successor is Pete Doctor. Lasseter goes on to work for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new Clouding Service (in this timeline streaming is called clouding). 

-Imagine Entertainment releases The Lorax with Jack Black as the Lorax and Chevy Chase as the Oncler, and despite music by Bon Jovi the film is laughed off. This is the one which causes Dr. Seuss’ widow to stop making live-action adaptations of her husband’s work. 

2006

-Quiki is launched as a subscription based website where for $4.99 a month, you can download 11 or 22 minute episodes of original shows on your iPod and later Zune. Some of the shows include new sitcoms such as Penny and the Geeks produced by Chuck Lorre, and Phineas & Ferb, a flash cartoon by Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh. Captain Underpants is also brought to the platform starring Johnny Bravo actor Jeff Bennet as the titular captain. Katzenberg tries to acquire Homestar Runner to no avail. 

-Disney releases The Robinsons, to negative reviews. Critics complain that the main villain played by Jim Carrey wasn’t scary enough. 

-Pixar releases Monsters Inc. 2: Lost in Scaradise. The final scene where Sully sits with Boo as she is about to pass, music by Hans Zimmer, is acclaimed by critics as one of the most brilliantly edited montages of all time. At this time they have launched a joint venture with Robert Zemeckis to create a new studio called PIXAR LIVE, a mo-cap company, after the success of Robert Zemeckis’ mo-cap adaptation of Zathura. 

-Nickelodeon releases Escape from Manhattan, now called Life’s a Jungle. It is hailed as a brilliant social satire of New Jersey’s infrastructure disguised as a goofy kids film. It features Breckin Meyer as Allen the Lion, Queen Latifah as Gloria the Hippo, Jerry Seinfeld as Benny the Okapi, and Matt Leblanc as Simon the Giraffe. 

-Sony releases The Wild, with Cedric the Entertainer as a bear who gets lost in Cascadia and decides to create his own theater like the one he performed for in Yellowstone. The film is praised as an animated ‘remake’ of Werner Herzog’s Fitzceraldo. 

-Chris Sanders releases American Dog for Blue Sky, the story of a successful dog actor who is forced to make his way in the world. The film is completely without dialogue. They find success and even receive the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Debates as to whether or not this or Monsters Inc. 2 deserve the Oscar go on to the present day. 

2007

-Eric Darnell and Chris Buck direct and release Surfin’ Birds. Originally an idea Eric pitched to Dreamworks as a mockumentary with a four-penguin band similar to The Beatles. After his pitch is rejected and Dreamworks dissolves, he finds work at Sony who is working with Chris Buck on a penguin surfing sports film. EMI won’t let them have the rights to The Beatles, so the film is reworked to have the penguins be more similar to The Beach Boys or The Monkees. 

-Disney releases an adaptation of Don Quixote with Wilmer Valderrama as Alonso Quijano and Cheech Marin as Sancho. Like Hunchback, it is criticized for watering down a beloved classic, but it finds a new following in the early 2020s. 

-Pixar Live releases its first film 1906 featuring Al Pacino in multiple roles. Directed by Brad Bird and an adaptation of the novel of the same name by James Dalessandro, the film about the 1906 earthquake uses mo-cap, and is praised for expanding the medium. 

-Nickelodeon releases A Fairly Odd Movie with Justin Long as Timmy, Wanda Sykes as Wanda, Sean Hayes as Cosmo, and Jim Carrey as Mr. Crocker. 4Chan debates Sykes’ casting, with the memes resulting in her calling out the racist ‘internet goblins’ on Conan. 

2008

-Aardman’s latest film Crood Awakening is released. Originally an adaptation of The Twits by Roald Dahl, now rewritten and starring John Cleese, the story is of a caveman struggling to evolve in an ever-changing world. 

-Pixar releases Toy Story 3. The film about Woody and Buzz attending Andy’s college drew criticism for too many jokes about the way that college works. The film was a box office hit, even with college students. 

-Invader Zim finds a third season on Quiki. 

-Blue Sky releases Jack Frost, an adaptation of William Joyce’s The Guardians of Childhood, the film has Aaron Carter as Jack and Santa Claus facing off against Bill Nighey’s Pitch Black. 

2009

-Disney releases The Sleeping Beauty. A 3D film which is an epic fantasy retelling of Sleeping Beauty. With Mandy Moore as Aurora and Michelle Pfeiffer as Maleficent. The film is criticized for trying to start a franchise, but praised for its sympathetic and nuanced portrayal of Maleficent. 

-Pixar releases Newt, a film about two newts who are the last of their species. The film is praised by critics, but draws criticism from Sean Hannity for being too Tree-Huggy and criticism from Greenpeace for its expansive toyline. PIXAR LIVE also releases an adaptation of Yellow Submarine directed by Robert Zemeckis. Tho the real life John and Ringo initially showed support, they retract it when seeing the final movie and its horrifying animation. 

-Brad Bird and John Lasseter form a new studio named Noma Studios. Katzenberg shows interest. 

2010

-Disney releases their 2D film The Snow Queen. Originally conceived as a musical before director Kevin Lima vetoed that decision, the film underperforms but with praise given towards Kristin Chenowith as the Snow Queen and John and Joan Cusack as the twins. 

-Pixar releases The Bear and the Bow featuring Karen Gillian, blowing up at the box office and establishing director Brenda Chapman as one of the great Pixar directors. She sets out to adapt a film based on the fairy tale East of the Sun West of the Moon. Disney and Pixar bury the hatchet and their partnership resumes. 

-Quiki in conjunction with Nickelodeon releases Zim’s Revenge, a film which is released in theaters and shortly afterwards online. It becomes a surprise moneymaker and viral hit. 

-Aardman releases Tortoise vs. Hare, a story of the tortoise and the hare but about their rematch. Starring Miriam Margoles, Bob Hoskins, and an up and comer called Tom Holland. It underperforms being seen as Aardman’s first mid production. 

-Sony and Happy Madison release Castle Drac, starring George Lopez as Dracula, failing to convince his daughter, played by Selena Gomez, to stay in the castle. It is a musical which takes home the Oscar for best Original Song “Little Bite of Love”.

-After the death of Bill Waterson in 2004, Blue Sky acquires the rights to Calvin and Hobbes and releases its adaptation with Robin Williams as Hobbes. The film underperforms and is praised for its ground-breaking animation but criticized by fans for not being something Bill would want. 

2011

-Clouding services are starting to overtake TV, but Quiki may not be a part of it after Katzenberg decides to partner with Blockbuster. Lasseter and Bird are at Noma with Bird setting out to direct Ray Gunn and Lasseter an adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ The Sneetches. And the worst part is that there are people online who are beginning to hate Pixar for letting him go. 

Katzenberg finally acquires Homestar Runner during the Chapman Brother’s Hiatus. Truly this is a disturbing timeline. 

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ok so for reasons I was reading the httyd wikia specifically the article about inconsistencies within the shows and films and for the most recent special they made that takes place after httyd 3 but before the epilogue where they meet toothless and the light fury again it says:

“Toothless is seen drawing Hiccup, when in an interview Dean had explained that Toothless has now been in the Hidden World longer than he was living with Hiccup and so he rarely ever thinks of his former life anymore.”

which is sO FUCKING SAD???? AND WRONG????? DEAN DUBLOIS I WILL PHYSICALLY FIGHT YOU IN HAND TO HAND COMBAT TOOTHLESS WILL NEVER NOT MISS HICCUP EVEN AFTER A DECADE OR MORE. THEY’RE BEST FRIENDS OF COURSE HE’LL THINK OF HICCUP. WHAT THE FUCK

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Dean: All the Night Furies are dead. Every single one. End of discussion

Also Dean: Here’s a hidden world that is literally the size of the Earth filled with nothing but dragons and mysterious mysteries where the Night Fury sub-specious came from. But absolutely no Night Furies.

Ya can't have it both ways Dublois!

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@rockford-peach​ just tagged me in a fun lil tag game about 7 comfort movies. so uhh without further ado:

1. Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright. what can i say i LOVE this movie and have re-watched it so many times. i have it on two of my computers and my ipad for optimal viewing options. the yearning! the nature! the dumbass love! lizzie bennet’s roasts! hating on wickham! Joe wright is a man who did jane austen right and i don’t say that lightly. jane austen is my bitch! matthew mcfayden truly captured the absolutely massive amount of awkward discomfort mr. darcy has in any given social situation! also kiera knightly made us all gay.

2. Stardust (2007) dir. Matthew Vaughn. How in the world a movie based on a neil gaiman book is better than the book i don’t know, but uhhhh this one manages it! baby charlie cox looking so good! claire danes looking like (1) goddess! the gorgeous shots and scenery! so many smooth AMAZING transitions between shots! over the top fun fantasy! captain shakespeare! “he said that my true love was right in front of me the whole time!” “Aren’t you tempted? / Tempted? By what? / Immortality. Say it wasn’t my heart. Not me, just a star you didn’t know. / You, you seriously think I could kill anyone? / soft laughter / If I could, everlasting life? I imagine it would be kind of lonely. I mean, maybe if you had someone to share it with, someone you loved. Maybe then it might be different.” i holler all the time about this movie

3. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Literally everything about this movie is wholesome! connection to the natural world! wholesome witchcraft merged with cutesy steampunk! sweet friendship between little kids! a kind, bright world! gigi! the lesbian painter in the woods! ahhhhhhhhhh this was like my favorite movie as a kid.

4. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) dr. Hayao Miyazaki. The anti-war themes! connection to land and nature! howl being a drama bitch! grandma sophie! “i’ve never felt so peaceful in my life.” “A heart’s a heavy burden to carry.” Markle! “Don’t leave! We’re a family!” calcifer’s sass! steampunk aesthetics! a delightful blend of english and japanese culture! the song Sky Stroll from the soundtrack.

5. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas. Where it all began! The first star wars movie i ever watched. Dad and I used to watch all 6 star wars films whenever i got really sick and had to stay home from school for like 2 days -- followed up by a spaceballs viewing lmaooo. “Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.” “Somebody’s got to save our skins!” I love my kids!

6. How to Train Your Dragon (2010) dir. Chris Sanders and Dean Dublois. Baby hiccup is adoreable! Dragons that are just huge cats! iconic! showstopping! The shots of hiccup and astrid flying on toothless tfor the first time together going through the aurora and the clouds? art! “da tada we’re dead!” the first time he actually rides toothless and the music! a wholesome coming of age film!

7. The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner. Do i have to say anything? this is an absolute classic that i am ashamed to say i didn’t see until the 10th grade. “death cannot stop true love it can only delay it” “as you wish” the dread pirate roberts! “inconceivable!” “you seem a decent fellow i hate to kill you.”

I tag @otterandterrier​ @itsthenerdwonder​ @fantastic-nonsense​ and @lyds​ to do your top 7 comfort films, if you want!

Seven honorable mentions, under the cut:

1. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) dir. Hayao Miyazaki. The nature! Literally everything is wholesome and the world is soft and kind! the music! fantasy creatures that are basically giant fluffy friends!

2. Mathilda (1999) dir. Danny Devito. the dahl book was one of my favorite books a child and i literally re-read it so many times that the cover fell off. This movie, while not a faithful adaptation of the book in detail (americanizing it for one) is so wholesome and fun i overlook that. Mara Wilson was exactly the right choice to play Mathilda.

3. The Brides of Dracula (1960) dir. Terrence Fisher. this is, techinically a “horror” film, but really it’s a delightful, super hokey low budget hodgepodge of vampire lore, repressed sexuality and peter cushing as van helsing the vampire slayer. dracula makes 0 appearences in the film. a vampire is literally killed in by the shadow of a windmill that is vaguely cross shaped. all of the hammer horror films are delightful and star peter cushing. you should watch them.

4. Practical Magic (1998) dir. Griffin Dunne. LISTEN i love this movie. this is a movie that is unapolegetically about women. the sisters kill (accidentally) an abusive man and strengthen their relationship. Also the soundtrack is stevie nicks music so uhhhh double bingo for the witchyness. all of sandra bullock’s 1990s movie are unappreciated, send tweet.

5. The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise. The music! Dame Julie Andrews! This film was my childhood introduction to musicals (along with oliver). We all learned our solfège from Do Re Mi in this movie -- don’t lie. Also the flat out beauty of basically every shot in this movie??? unparalleled. Georg and Maria being peak romance???? “for here you are, standing there, loving me // whether or not you should” “somewhere out there, there’s a young woman who I suspect will never be a nun” “you brought music back into this house” The strong anti-nazi themes throughout the whole shebang! Maria and Georg dance the landler alone in the garden! Peak! Romance!

6. The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephan Sommers. Rick and Evie are Peak Romance! Need I say more. “I am a librarian!” the get wrekt brambridge scholars scene! Evie!

7. The princess diaries (2001) dir. Gary Marshall This is such a lovely coming of age movie and i have many fond memories of watching this one with my cousins when were kids having sleepovers. i think my cousin E. had it on VHS. Dame Julie Andrews! Queen Clarisse x Joe!

I could go on, but uhhh i probably shouldn’t lmaoo.

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Not the best, but a good finish. Here's my review of "How to Train Your Dragon 3"!

“How to Train Your Dragon- The Hidden World”- Movie Review

From 2003 to 2015, British author Cressida Cowell published a series of children’s books about a young Viking boy who lived among dragons and had to overcome several obstacles in order to become a hero. Midway through its run, DreamWorks Animation decided to (loosely) bring Cowell’s stories to life on the big screen. And thus the How t…

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Lilo & Stitch To Get The Live-Action Feature Treatment

Lilo & Stitch To Get The Live-Action Feature Treatment

  Reaching further into the Disney vault, the studio’s next live-action adaptation may be somewhat surprising.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Aladdin live-action producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich are developing a live-action remake of Disney’s 2002 film, Lilo & Stitch. Mike Van Waes will write the script. Originally devised and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DuBlois, the film told…

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How To Train Your Dragon 3

Wow. 

I ca’t believe I made it out alive.

What else can I say except this is THE greatest, most perfect trilogy capper in all cinematic history?

Thank you Cressida Cowell, for bringing this fantastic world into existence, and Dean DuBlois for taking it and perfecting it in movie form.

Thank you, and goodbye.

[artist-issues]

Some of you haven’t heard the creator of Lilo and Stitch talk about the characters of Lilo and Stitch and it shows

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When did you start writing this kind of stuff and what or who inspires you?

I’ve been writing as long as I can remember - Wrote my first comic books when I was like 6, started writing screenplays when I was 10... 

I draw inspirations from lots and lots of places - books, movies, music, art, television, video games, history, comics... I think it’s important to have a wide range of interests if you’re a creative individual.

Here are a few of the people or things I’ve been inspired by, in no particular order and 100% accidentally leaving out a bunch: Steven Spielberg, Douglas Adams, Brad Bird, David Sedaris, Nick Hornby, Monty Python, Robert Zemeckis, Tina Fey, Tim Schafer, Chris Sanders, Dean DuBlois, Lemony Snicket, JK Rowling, Norton Juster, Mark Waid, Gail Simone, Pendleton Ward, Edgar Wright, Guillermo Del Toro, George Lukas, Jack Kirby, Takeshi Murakami, Jamie Hewlett, Amy Poehler, Salman Rushdie, Bruce Timm, Hayao Miyazaki... the list goes on and on and on.

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How to Train Your Dragon 2 – (Dean BuBlois, 2014)

DreamWorks Animation’s second HTTYD movie continues in the footsteps of The Godfather Part II, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Dark Knight as a strongly made, darker, more complex, world-building chapter of a great cinematic epic. Is it mad to compare an animated film about dragon-riding Vikings to the likes of The Godfather? Perhaps. But nonetheless; 

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is set five years after the events of the first film – Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler), and Astrid (America Ferrera), and the other Vikings of Berk have come to live in harmony with their now-friendly dragon neighbors. The dragons help with everyday chores, they race with their riders, and Hiccup, now 20, scouts outlying regions of Viking country with the help of his loyal steed and friend, Toothless. 

The sequel’s conflict arises from the coming of a mad, dragon-enslaving warlord, Drago Bludvist (Djimon Hounsou), determined to control all the dragons he can, and use them to obliterate anything in his way to world domination. Furthermore, legends of a gargantuan ice-breathing dragon seem to be coming true as Hiccup and Toothless find a fort encased in icicle spikes on their travels – and these legends come to a head when they encounter a mysterious masked dragon rider flying a great four-winged beast of reptile. Are the new dragon and rider a second impending threat, or is the masked rider the only hope Hiccup, Toothless, and Berk have of protecting their new way of life? 

Everything the first HTTYD film does well, this film cranks up; chiefly the animation. Between new locations in the ice-covered far north of HTTYD’s fantastical world, the creative design of the now dragon-incorporating Island of Berk, and of course, the unbelievable flying sequences, audiences get to see the prowess of these animators shatter through the high bar they set for themselves in the preceding film. As before, Toothless and his dragon brethren are some of the most believable cinematic creatures I’ve ever seen; the voice cast is impeccable, particularly with the addition of Hounsou, Cate Blanchett, and Kit Harrington; and the film’s strong messages of nonviolence, respect for nature, and forgiveness are all powerful themes for all audiences. 

If you’d told me years ago that I would be comparing a film with protagonists named Hiccup and Toothless to the like of The Godfather and The Dark Knight, I would’ve taken it as an insult, and called you barking mad – but now I am a full convert. The two How to Train Your Dragon films are some of the most energetic, fun, and emotionally resonant films I’ve seen in a long time; and unquestionably some of the best children’s entertainment out there. 

Let’s hope DreamWorks can keep that trend going for the series’ concluding chapter in 2018. The second installment though? 4/4

- JMC

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"How To Train Your Dragon 2" Panel at The Contenders

I found this while looking up the winners of The Annie Awards and thought I would share. 

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LILO & STITCH (2002)

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