Dean DeBlois, with co-writer and -director Chris Sanders, made Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon. Coming late to the latter, he talked about stripping away much of what had already been done and making some brave decisions.
How to Train Your Dragon offered one of the perennial dilemmas of adapting literary properties. It worked fine on the page, but wasn’t making a successful transition to a film when DeBlois and Sanders joined the production.
