How To Train Your Dragon 3: Story Taken from an Original Author

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Hello. I am a writer, game writer, and screenwriter with 5 years of experience.

I had written a free FanFiction of How To Train Your Dragon on wattpad on July 16, 2016, called 'Hiccup and Toothless: Mystery of the Fury'. https://www.wattpad.com/story/76323865-hiccup-and-toothless-mystery-of-the-fury As you might know, wattpad.com allows fanfictions to be published on their site.

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Due to this book, the idea of Light Fury - the white dragon similar to Toothless with light blue eyes, yellow flame, elusive and wild nature - belonged to me. There are also many other similarities I found with my story from the information published about the third, upcoming movie (for example, the character development of Hiccup who becomes more mature and chief-like, the quarrels of Hiccup and Toothless because of the wild Light Fury, and the fact that a character called the white dragon 'Light Fury' out of fun).

I am writing this because on July 21, 2016, after my book was published, I wrote to Dreamworks Animation about the idea of a Light Fury.

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They did not even reply to me, and 2 years later I see the posters with a white dragon and information about the upcoming movie which so greatly resembles my story. I was truly disappointed. I did offer them the Light Fury idea, but I did not say they could copy other things from my book and adjust them to their script. If we consider the facts that after July when I wrote them this letter, the script got completely rewritten, it can also grow suspicions even further.

Dean DeBlois' words about rewriting the screenplay

I ask that my name is revealed as the author of those ideas and the story. 

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Petition created on January 15, 2019