'How To Train Your Dragon' Director To Helm The Upcoming 'Micronauts' Movie

If you loved How To Train Your Dragon, you might want to look forward to the director's upcoming venture now. And even more, as this venture is going to be his live-action debut. Danny Deblois made a huge impact with his imagination and direction in the animated saga, How To Train Your Dragon and will now be helming his first post-Dragon project.

Deblois is all set to helm the upcoming film called Micronauts, that will be a take on the Hasbro toy line. And not only will Deblois direct it but write the film too. For the uninitiated, Micronauts were action figures made in the late 1970s by now-defunct Mego based on a line by Japanese toy company Takara titled Microman. The toys were a big seller for a time and a Marvel Comics comic followed, which helped establish a storyline for the line.

The comics told of a Microverse in which diverse worlds were linked together and in which a power-mad dictator named Baron Karza kills the royal family, taking control. A small group of eclectic characters, a pilot awoken from a centuries-long deep sleep, alien gladiators, survivors of the coup, band together to form a resistance.

The project had been in development with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot for several years and had a script by Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who reportedly called it a departure from the comics.

It is unclear what the new take is, but it has been described as centering on a group of intergalactic explorers. Paramount has set a June 4, 2021, release date for the pic.