After spending the better part of a decade creating the triumphant How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, director Dean DeBlois is doubling down on his live-action debut. Recently we learned he had signed on to direct a Micronauts movie for Hasbro and Paramount, and now Variety reports that DeBlois will also be directing a live-action take on Treasure Island for Universal Pictures and Mandeville Films. The movie is of course based on the 1883 adventure novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson, which tells the story of a group of sea-faring sailors who set out …

Dean DeBlois has had quite a bit of success in animation. He’s been nominated for two Oscars for the first two How to Train Your Dragon movies, and it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if he’s nominated a third time for How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. But now he’s going to be turning to live-action by adapting the Hasbro toy line Micronauts. DeBlois will write and direct the movie, which is based on the 1970s toy line that lead to Marvel Comics series. Per THR, “The comics told of a Microverse in …

Paramount's Micronauts live-action movie finds a new writer and director: Dean DeBlois, fresh from his How To Train Your Dragon franchise.

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The best animated movies are the ones that tackle adult themes that belie pure children's entertainment: the fate of Bambi's mother, Mufasa in The Lion King, Carl's wife in Up. Grief and loss are more ingrained in our childhood favorites than they are in most R-rated movies we see today. (John Wick excepting.) And while the first How to Train Your Dragon film in 2010 didn't dive headfirst into trauma, nor did it skirt around the issue. We began the films with Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) as a gawky teen in a Viking village …