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"How To Train Your Dragon" opens on area screens this weekend. It is a worthy remake of the original animated film, George Thomas writes.

We’ve seen a flood of live-action remakes over the last decade, and most of them, from Disney especially, tend to fall into two categories… hollow cash grabs or awkward reinterpretations that lose what made the originals work.

When “ How to Train Your Dragon ” director Dean DeBlois received a call from Universal telling him they were considering a live-action reimaging of the animated feature, his first response was “I don’t want to see someone else’s version of this.”

Original 'How to Train Your Dragon' screenwriter Dean DeBlois solo-directs this take on the popular franchise, which follows the adventures of a young Viking and the creature he befriends.

Writer and director Dean DeBlois, making his live-action debut, co-directed the original and returns to the fantasy world of the dragon-beset North Sea island of Berk.

"How to Train Your Dragon" artisans on using sheep fur, bagpipe and locations including the Faroe Islands to help bring remake to life.