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Get inside the making of the new live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie with a new behind-the-scenes (and beautiful) book from DreamWorks Animation & Insight Editions

There's an art to making a great How to Train Your Dragon movie - and now there's a book about how they're doing it in live action.

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This summer, the story of Hiccup and Toothless starts anew, as DreamWorks Animation, Marc Platt Productions and Universal Pictures bring How to Train Your Dragon back to life as a live-action epic — and Insight Editions is ready to let everyone know just how it was done.

Insight’s upcoming book, The Art and Making of How to Train Your Dragon, sees writer Jerry Schmitz — who’s also worked on The Art of DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot and The Art and Making of The Peanuts Movie — talk to the cast and crew of the upcoming reimagining of the beloved franchise, with interviews from writer/director Dean DeBlois, actors Mason Thames and Nico Parker, as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes artwork and photography from production to create the most well-rounded insight into what it took to bring the animated classic to live-action life on the big screen.

DeBlois, who wrote and directed all three of the original animated movies (the first in collaboration with Chris Sanders) also contributes an introduction to the volume, with Cressida Cowell, the British author who wrote the original How to Train Your Dragon novel series beginning with 2003’s eponymous release, offering up her own preface.

The Art and Making of How to Train Your Dragon will be released in June, and is currently available for pre-order. If you’re wondering what the cover of the book looks like, we’re very happy to exclusively reveal that here:

How to Train Your Dragon will fly into theaters June 13. The book will be available on the same date.

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Graeme McMillan: Popverse Editor Graeme McMillan (he/him) has been writing about comics, culture, and comics culture on the internet for close to two decades at this point, which is terrifying to admit. He completely understands if you have problems understanding his accent.

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