Universal Studios’ upcoming How to Train Your Dragon live-action film, which features a race-swapped Astrid and a diverse town of Berk, is expected to have a weak opening weekend of just around $70 million.This Substack is reader-supported.
To be fair, it's barely a race swap. She may have recent non-European ancestry, but she's about as dark as white chocolate. It's a hair-swap, at worst.
That said, I don't see the interest in this thing. Seems like Dreamworks is going to beat Disney at their own game, but it's a stupid game to be playing, and you know what they say about playing stupid games.
Hopefully it flops.
To be fair, it's barely a race swap. She may have recent non-European ancestry, but she's about as dark as white chocolate. It's a hair-swap, at worst.
That said, I don't see the interest in this thing. Seems like Dreamworks is going to beat Disney at their own game, but it's a stupid game to be playing, and you know what they say about playing stupid games.