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How to Train Your Dragon: book vs movie.
Executive producer Tim Johnson on reinventing dragons, Over the Hedge and the live action remake.

On this episode of the Kingdom of Dreams Podcast, I sit down again with director and producer Tim Johnson to talk about How to Train Your Dragon. Tim shares how the film reinvented dragons, The Hidden World and how the movie differs from Cressida Cowell's book. We also talk about his first film as an executive producer, why the film had to be made quickly, Over the Hedge, the holiday specials and the live action How to Train Your Dragon.

KEY TAKEAWAYS
• How DreamWorks reinvented dragons
• What changed from the book
• Why the film was made so fast
• Thoughts on the live action remake

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro: Reinventing Dragons
0:52 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2:44 How to Train Your Dragon: The Book vs The Movie
7:30 Tim's First Film as an EP
10:30 Why How to Train Your Dragon Had to Be Made Quickly
13:57 Over the Hedge
19:26 Holiday Specials
23:09 Live Action How to Train Your Dragon
24:19 Wrapping Up

ABOUT THE GUEST
Tim Johnson is an American animator, director and producer. He directed DreamWorks' Antz, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Over the Hedge and Home, and was an executive producer on How to Train Your Dragon.

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