John Powell, the composer for 'How to Train Your Dragon', faced a dangerous situation. A fire threatened his home in Palisades. He prioritized his music, saving a backup drive with all his ...

For the hit live-action remake, Powell had the unique task of revisiting his own work, composed more than 15 years earlier. It was a lot more difficult than it sounds.

It would have been a ludicrous scene if it hadn’t been so dangerous. John Powell, the composer behind Universal’s new live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon and Wicked, was wearing an ...

Powell, one of the biggest composers working, was in the middle of Dragon and initially paid no mind to the warnings. After all, he had lived in the Palisades for over 20 years, had seen fires start ...

Despite the changes, Powell approached the live-action score with the same methodology he used in 2010. “We recorded in the same place, using the same program we did in 2010,” Powell says. “Even then, ...

“John Powell is the first person I called about doing ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ as a live-action movie,” director Dean DeBlois, who also directed the animated original (with Chris Sanders) and the ...

Watch more from Powell, DeBlois and the rest of the musicians on the score, in the featurette above. “How to Train Your Dragon” hits theaters on June 13.

KERA's Therese Powell paddle along with Dallas United Crew’s Delite Dragon Boat team and learns how the sport has evolved (and stayed the same) over 2500 years.