★★★

Imagine. You wait 23 years for Hollywood to carbon copy a Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders animation in live action form and two come along at the same time. And they say creativity is dead. What’s more, each facsimile is proving a monster hit in its own right. One can but imagine the wild ride 2025 is proving to be for DeBlois and Sanders. With Disney now no longer the sole studio exponent of the toon-to-live cash in, the form is more genre than trend these days. AI should make the process quicker. Feed the original through an app, with ‘remake in live action’ as your filter and the new-ish How to Train Your Dragon is your result.