John Powell: How to Train Your Dragon

Dreamworks Animation has confirmed to Upcoming Film Scores that John Powell will score How to Train Your Dragon, the studio's film version of the Cressida Cowell children's book. Powell, whose other scores for Dreamworks include Kung Fu Panda (co-scored with Hans Zimmer) and the first Shrek movie (co-scored with Harry Gregson-Williams), is frequently hired for animation: also coming up is Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and his other recent credits include Disney's Bolt and Fox's Horton Hears a Who. How to Train Your Dragon, where a Viking tries to make his loser dragon a big hero, is scheduled to come out in theatres in March 2010.