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How do you know when your film career has hit a dead stop? When you begin to voice an animated version of the character that first brought you fame.
Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez and Aaron Ruell are set to reprise their roles from "Napolean Dynamite" in an animated version of the hit comedy. Fox has picked up the series and ordered six episodes of which we're willing to bet will be the only ones ever made because really, does anyone care about this?
In other movie-to-TV news, the smash hit "How To Train Your Dragon" is going to continue minting money for DreamWorks with a weekly animated show that will air on the Cartoon Network in 2012, making a nice lead in for the feature film sequel in 2013. No word yet on who will be voicing the show but don't expect the likes of Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig to get involved. They all actually have active, healthy film careers. [DigitalSpy/Deadline]
The biggest surprise hit of the year? Or at least the one with no existing franchise film before it? Paramount/ Dreamworks Animations' "How to Train Your Dragon" without question. The film is currently #8 on the worldwide box-office grosses of 2010 having grossed $492.6 million worldwide and $217.6 million domestically. Not bad numbers at all for a film that isn't part two or three of anything (the only bigger, "brand new" not based on a franchise was "Alice In Wonderland," but arguably the story is world renowned and had a built in audience regardless of Johnny Depp or Tim Burton). Did inflated 3D prices help its numbers? Hell, yes, but the studio is not looking a gift horse in the mouth.
So it's absolutely no surprise that a "How to Train Your Dragon 2" is now in the works according to Variety. The entire principal cast will be returning to reprise their voice roles including Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig.
Co-writer/director Dean DeBlois, who performed double duty with Chris Sanders on the first film will take over to assume full duties on part two (Sanders is off and running with "The Croods" to be voiced by Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds).
The film will be aiming for a 2013 release and apparently the first one was conceived as a prequel to the series based on Cressida Cowell's books. "There are nine books, and I feel like there are all sorts of elements that we could pull from," DeBlois said.
How do you know when your film career has hit a dead stop? When you begin to voice an animated version of the character that first brought you fame.
